2002 - 85 mins - Canada
Katryn's Place - adapted from short story - The Dog.
I wrote this story in the outback of Australia where I lived at the time
After the death of her perfect husband Katryn discovers his hidden life through the random escapes of his dog
Jeanne Pope
My story with film
I have been an avid traveller since leaving England at the age of sixteen, hitchhiking my way around the world. Those journeys inspired a collection of short stories, many of them encouraged and edited by my father, Marius. One of those stories, The Dog, starring Pascale Montpetit, was adapted into a short film in Canada. It was my first experience of seeing words transformed into moving images, and it sparked a lifelong passion for filmmaking and editing.
Over the years, I have lived and worked in Montreal, Canada; Qingdao, China; Tehran, Iran; Tuchan, France; and Tunbridge Wells, England, where I am currently based. Each place has shaped the way I tell stories and deepened my understanding of people, culture, and community.
Today, I undertake commissioned documentary projects, create visual stories, and lead workshops, something I genuinely love. Whether working in England, in my village of Tuchan in France, or in China, I am passionate about helping people discover and share the stories that matter to them.
FILMOGRAPHY
Where's Stanley - Part 1
2005 -Short 7mns - Canada
We begin the Stanley Lewis Collection with Lewis, the Montreal sculptor, bastion of the Main Boulevard and marginality.
We follow him to his favorite eating houses, then to his studio where we glimpse his intimate and chaotic world of creation.
Special Mention: LA Shorts
Dust a Sculptor's Journey - Part 4
2011 - Feature 55mns - Canada
This film is an intimate artist profile and first-person ode. It explores the life and work of Montreal's late great sculptor and print-maker Stanley Lewis for his contribution to Canada’s rich art heritage and also portrays his love for his beloved Boulevard St. Laurent, affectionately known as the Main. This cinéma-vérité documentary chronicles the last years of Stanley's eccentric life as he struggles with his health and creative legacy. His nostalgic boulevard, his cluttered dusty studio and his vagabond friends all serve as a backdrop for the perseverance of his artistic vision and the cultural landmarks fading around him.
This is a personal journal and homage to my friend Stanley.
This is an story of loss and love, identity, memory and forgiveness. A story of uprooted people. Using Super 8, family found footage, war archives, re-enactment, experimentation, and highly saturated images, we move back and forwards between my mother’s past to where she was born in Shanghai, then moved to Europe; and to the present, a small fishing village in China where a sea hut is the metaphor for that veil between two worlds and two times. Europe- China, past and present. On film circuit currently.
Born in Iran
Jeanne Pope & Banafcheh Hejazi
2011 - Short 19mns - Canada
Birth of the Smoked Meat - Part 2
Jeanne Pope & Zoe Mapp
2006 - Short 20mns - Canada
We follow the process of making smoked meat and the characters that have been creating this Jewish delicacy with love for many years. The Main Deli Steakhouse represents one of the few remaining businesses on the Boulevard St. Laurent, the central artery of Montreal. Starring the enigmatic owner, Peter Varvaro, and his old-time friend, the legendary Montreal sculptor Stanley Lewis, we catch a glimpse of their world, which has remained relatively unchanged over the last 40 years.
"A gorgeous black-and-white look inside Montreal's Main Deli."
FILM POP 2006
Leila and Sara go on a road trip from Montreal to visit Leila's grandmother in New Jersey for her birthday. At the US border, Tom, an American agent, puts the girls through a ridiculous interrogation because their Canadian passports state they were born in Iran.
Chez Lise
Jeanne Pope & James Galwey
2013 - Feature 85mns - Canada
Deanna and Gordon are lovers with severe mental health problems. They go to live at Chez Lise, a home for people on low incomes in Montreal. Between love and chaos, they try to make their couple work, but time ticks against them ...
Up & Down the City Road - Part 3
Jeanne Pope & Wang Ying
2008 - Short - 10mns - Canada
The Seahut 海边的小屋
Up & Down the City Road is a tribute to the Boulevard St.Laurent of old, an ode, a street poem to Stanley Lewis and to friendship, and to his beloved changed street, the Main.
"An animated documentary assembled in a rough-hewn manner, it's formally odd but sentimentally evocative." MALCOLM FRASER Mirror 2008
2019 - Feature - 85 mns - China
Cannes
Shorts
2007
Cannes
Shorts
2007
BEST DIRECTOR
BEST DIRECTOR
Kodak Award for Best Director with Zoe Mapp Birth of the Smoked Meat
Kodak Award for Best Director with Zoe Mapp Birth of the Smoked Meat
Ist Prize
2014
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Chez Lise - Mental Health Section of Festival Image Sante, Liege, Belgium, 2014
LA
SHORTS
2005
SPECIAL MENTION
Where's Stanley, Official Selection
