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Though she had never picked up a camera prior to meeting Lewis, Pope decided she wanted to become a filmmaker and focus on the sculptor. And so she applied and was accepted as a mature student in Concordia University's esteemed film-production program
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2013 Chez Lise Reviews
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2008 - Birth of The Smoked Meat - Winner of Kodak Prize for best direction
CANNES International Film Festival. Montreal Film Festival. And at many other international festivals.
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Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Canada Birth of the Smoked Meat 2006 Winners of the Kodak Imaging Award at the 37th Canadian Student Film Festival Jeanne Pope and Zoe Mapp For Zoe Mapp and Jeane Pope, showing their short documentary “Birth of the Smoked Meat” as part of the Kodak Emerging Filmmaker Program at Cannes was an opportunity to display their cherished community to the entire world. “It exposed [us] to an international market, the likes of which I would never have access to in Canada,” Says Mapp. “We have since played our film in five countries since last year, all through having seen our work at the Short Film Corner,” adds Pope. “Birth of the Smoked Meat”, about the making of a Montreal delicacy, was made at the behest of the filmmakers’ friend Stanley Lewis. Lewis, a Montreal sculptor, was the subject of the filmmaking team’s first documentary “Where’s Stanley”. “He insisted we take on this project, which brought us the success we’ve had,” recounts Pope. The filmmakers even pay homage to his influence in “Smoked Meat”, as the food makes its way from delivery at the back of the restaurant to Stanley Lewis’ dinner plate. Mapp and Pope’s third project, “Berson Boys”, concerns the art of headstone engraving in the oldest business on the Boulevard St. Laurent and completes the trilogy of films regarding this bastion of the Montreal community. Lewis lived above the Bersons’ engraving business, and the chronicle of their workday brings the tour around Montreal’s culturally dense zone known as “The Main” full circle. |
The area has been so inspirational to both Pope and Mapp, that Pope’s next project, an animated short titled “Up & Down the City Road” also concerns the gentrification and destruction “The Main” faces today. Since an animated project heavily relies on planning every image, Pope and Mapp used their documentary trilogy as an opportunity to capture the spontaneous reality as it took place. “The whole time we took chances as this was documentary, it was real time, no second take-we had one chance and that was that,” explains Pope, “we had to have ears, eyes and feet everywhere. We had to be very fast as well as balanced.” Filming a documentary that encompassed the entire routine of the Bersons in a short schedule proved difficult, especially considering the sensitive nature of the Bersons’ work. “It was the close of the season,” recounts Pope, “the Boys, who work the session intensely, were very tired, we had to be very careful how we treated them as well as stay out of the way of grieving families…we only had four days to get what we could.” Continue to read |
