August 12, 2024
20:00
Lac-Brome Theater

Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol & Marie-Dominique Michaud

French, English subtitles
Feature Film / In competition
Documentary
Classification: General
96 minutes

Documentary. Canada. 2023

For a long time, the Ocean seemed unalterable and inexhaustible, but the impact of our actions on its biodiversity and its temperature is alarming. In The Ocean Seen from the Heart, sequel to The Earth Seen from the Heart, Hubert Reeves, surrounded by passionate scientists and explorers, invites us to rediscover what threatens the ocean, and above all to explore its capacity for phenomenal regeneration. A hymn to the Living, in what is richest, most precious and necessary to preserve if we want to survive, among other species, on our blue planet.

Followed by a discussion with director Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol

Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol

Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol has worked in several capacities in the Quebec film industry. After advanced studies in theater and music, she worked in radio and television. She then devoted herself to scriptwriting, producing and directing a number of cinematographic works, which have always reached the general public. In the meantime, she became producer at the National Film Board, director of outside production at Radio-Canada, and interim director of the Cinémathèque québécoise for nearly four years. Since 1999, her most important works, centered around astrophysicist Hubert Reeves, have revealed her ability to create captivating scientific content with Conteur d’étoiles, then Du Big Bang au Vivant. With La Terre vue du cœur – avec Hubert Reeves, she was able to openly express her own commitment to the environment, which had, incidentally, been at the root of her first foray into cinema (1973). At the same time, in L’Océan vu du cœur, co-directed with Marie- Dominique Michaud, she offers an even broader vision of the state of biodiversity and climate on the planet. At the request of Éditions du Seuil, she has further developed the threads running through these documentaries in two “beautiful books”: La Terre vue du cœur (2019) and L’Océan vu du cœur (2023).

Marie-Dominique Michaud

Passionate about content and creation, Marie- Dominique has over 15 years’ experience managing multidisciplinary teams in the new media, television and film sectors, mainly as a producer. Notably in new writing with Les Enfants de La Bolduc (several times awarded in Quebec and internationally), In the Mouth and Loov.ca, in television with 3 seasons of the Toi & Moi series broadcast on Radio Canada and in cinema with the feature-length fictions Le Torrent by Simon Lavoie and Gurov & Anna by Rafaël Ouellet and the documentary La Terre vue du cœur by Iolande Cadrin Rossignol, with whom she co-wrote the screenplay. L’Océan vu du cœur is her first co-direction. Her love of living things and her passion for understanding them and transmitting credible, inspiring knowledge about them are at the heart of her professional commitment. The 6-episode fiction series “Les Affluents”, currently in production, of which she is the instigator and content producer, is testimony to this. She shares the original concept with director Sophie Deraspe and producer Marie-Eve Pelletier (PIXCOM). Just like the forthcoming 4 X 52-minute documentary series inspired by the feature film L’Océan vu du cœur, which will follow the heroes of ocean protection (discovered during the making of the film L’Océan vu du cœur) in their actions, their discoveries, revealing the legacy they offer to us all.