The first Canadian feature film shown on YouTube

Sign of the times for the first time a Canadian feature film will be broadcast entirely online in partnership with YouTube, on 4 September. Finally the fall, Olivier Roberge and Patrick Boivin, shows images of Montreal both elegant, with its majestic nature, and unusual in its intersections and graffiti, tackling a story of love and Friendship young and contemporary, a scenario too simple. Louis Tremblay, Christine Beaulieu, Jacques Laroche, Martin Dubreuil and Carnior to take the limelight.

Patrick Boivin is already a star of the Web (165,000 subscribers). He is behind 3D animations, music videos, advertising on YouTube and received more than 118 million unique views on his page. His films like Iron Baby, Street Fighter, Iron Man vs. Bruce Lee have won contracts for commercials and music videos.

Why start an online movie?

"For us it was the only option, meets Patrick Boivin. Telefilm or SODEC does not have funding. I labeled animator, and institutions accused me of having lost my shoe. "

The authors have paid the production of their pockets. "Making a film with no money [$ 45 000], make it will not be distributed or seen. Given my success with YouTube, I became their partner and I knew I could count on them to spread it. "

"Being the first country to do so may give the idea to others and open new avenues. The film of tomorrow will be a lot of space on the Web. YouTube on the U.S., they already have plans for financing movies online. "

Finally, the Fall will be free for everyone. "The very small team - I was cameraman, director of photography - was paid to exercise, but it did not meet the fees of different conventions, and the film could be distributed anyway. It's a story that Olivier Roberge and I had designed and built for four hands. We're longtime friends and we understand. The challenge of having a child affected us and we wanted to talk about it now without delay. "

Still ... He dreams of theatrical releases for future projects.

"Our next film, Bunker, has been agreed for Telefilm and will be distributed in Seville. This is the camera of two soldiers [Antoine Martin and Bertrand Dubreuil] taken to the North in a bunker. I also won a contest on the site Openfilm to make a feature film that the U.S. will finance site, which is expected to release in theaters. "

Source : ledevoir