Tag: Rendezvous French Film Festival

  • Gardening… therapeutic art

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    Trilby Jeeves
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    My first garden was in the back yard of our Banff house in a little dark corner with black earth. My first plant, a strawberry plant. Our neighbours’ fence was high above, blocking my sun, but dripping gooseberries that I guiltily snuck from time to time. When my first strawberry emerged, albeit tiny, I was…

  • French Films in.. Vancouver? Yup!

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    Trilby Jeeves
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    Parlez-vous le Francais? Speak French? No? Doesn’t matter!! Here in our own Vancouver, we are lucky to have French films being brought in by  Visions Ouest Productions, Régis Painchaud and Lorraine Fortin, for the 23rd Rendez-Vous French Film Festival. Around 50 films (including shorts) from Québec and around the world will be presented, most with…

  • French Cinema in … Vancouver!

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    Trilby Jeeves
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    Yes.. you read correctly. In fact, it is Visions Ouest’s 20th anniversary of producing Les Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois et Francophone de Vancouver (RendezVous French Film Festival). It has been a pioneering journey to arrive at this point.  Founder Régis Painchaud started by showing two French films in the beginning. Now? Over 50 productions from…