Director
Érik Cimon
Production
Yanick Létourneau
Languages
French, English
Year
2016
92 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1
Montreal New Wave is a feature documentary that explores the New Wave cultural current in Quebec in the 70’s and 80’s.
Montreal New Wave documents and questions that unknown part of our recent cultural history. Through archives and interviews with key figures of the time, Montreal New Wave wants to shed light on a defining current that still inspires the quebec cultural scene today.
Screenplay and direction : Érik Cimon
Image : Marie Davignon
Sound recording : Stéphane Barsalou
Editing : Alexandre Lachance
Production : Yanick Létourneau (Périphéria)
Érik Cimon
Érik Cimon has directed many award winning music videos, television commercials and short fiction films. He wrote and directed many documentaries and documentary series for television. In 2006, he co-directed the documentary series Les Citadins du rebut global that won the Gemeaux Award for Best Directing. In 2011, he released the critically acclaimed independant documentary Mtl Punk : The First Wave. Montréal New Wave (2016) is his first documentary feature.
Montreal New Wave, 92 min, Documentary, 2016
The Hidden Side of Meat, 41 min, Documentary, 2012
Mtl Punk: The First Wave, 46 min, Documentary, 2011
Le rigodon, 15 min, Documentary, 2011
The Cello, 20 min, Fiction, 2006
Next, 14 min, Fiction, 2003