Facing Champlain

200822 min 41 secFilm: Animation, Fiction

Direction: Jean-François Pouliot

Production: René ChénierDavid VerrallMarc Bertrand

Script: Jean-François PouliotMarcel Jean

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with The Museum of Civilisation.

Artist Mélissa Hébert - fictional descendant of the first colonist in New France - is commissioned to paint a portrait of Samuel de Champlain, explorer and founder of Quebec City. In her studio overlooking Quebec's magnificent Old City, the artist tries to grasp the essence of the man. Suddenly, division between worlds, senses and dimensions melt away and the artist passes through a tear in the canvas into the third dimension - and into the visionary explorer's expansive world.

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Quebec City and its founder, Samuel de Champlain, the National Film Board of Canada produced Facing Champlain - a groundbreaking 3-D stereoscopic experience.

Other versions

Champlain retracé

Subject categories

  • History - Canada - Pre-1867 > ExplorationNew France 1600-1760PortraitsQuébec
  • History > Early Colonization/Settlement

Credits

writer
Jean-François Pouliot
director
Jean-François Pouliot
original script
Marcel Jean
director of photography
Allen Smith
art direction
Normand Sarrazin
director of animation
Munro Ferguson
lead animator
Theodore Ushev
fine art painter
Theodore Ushev
director of digital effects
Pierre Plouffe
director of technology
Paul Kroitor
picture editing
Sylvain M. Lebel
Gaétan Huot
director of musical composition
Normand Roger
director of sound design
Normand Roger
cast
Pascale Montpetit
Eudore Belzile
voice
Colm Feore
John Gilbert
Domini Blythe
Ellen David
Luis de Cespedes
Felicia Shulman
Terrence Scammell
Simon Peacock
Robert Naylor
Julie Burroughs
Kim Bubbs
Aaron Grunfeld
Tamar Kozlov
Evans Smirnov
Nicolas Charbonneaux-Collombet
Catherine Sénart
Nobuya Shimamoto
line production
Jean-Marie Comeau
Francine Langdeau
1st assistant director
Anne Sirois
continuity
Louise Thériault
casting
Nathalie Boutrie
1st camera assistant
Nicolas Marion
2nd camera assistant
Francis Hanneman
Thierry Bouffard
clapper loader
Nicolas René
video assist operator
Jean-François Gravel
on-set stereographer
Sean MacLeod Phillips
chief lighting technician
Normand Viau
best boy electrician
Michel Steinmetzer
lighting
François Allard
Érick Dinel
generator operator
Normand Simpson
George Hryszyn
Michel Parent
key grip
Serge Grenier
best boy grip
Frank Develey
grip
Bono Grenier
Alexandre Garber
David Giasson
set decorator
Normand Robitaille
assistant set decorator
Anouk St-Amand
props person
Michel Clément
assistant props person
Alain Clouatre
set technician
Michael Thomas
André Potvin
Ludovic Poirot
Frédéric Vignal
Francis Brousseau
Daniel Renaudin
Trevor Orthner
Frédérick Marcil
graphic designer, newspapers
Benjamin Bousquet
costume designer
Michèle Hamel
dresser
Martine Séguin
Mélanie Turcotte
makeup artist
Marie-Angèle Breitner
Johanne Gravel
hairdresser
Denis Parent
sound recordist
Gilles Corbeil
boom operator
François Guérin
Marc Furtado
location manager
Louis-Charles Sarrazin
Catherine Lavoie
floor manager
Pierre Trépanier
Pierre-René Bonnette
production assistant
Marc-Antoine Turcotte
Frédéric Moreau
Geneviève Brien
Chantal Allard
Dominic Montplaisir
François Gamache
Véronique Isabelle
craft service
Christian Marion
Marie-Claude Leclerc
security supervisor
Richard Desjardins
security
Rebecca Lafond
Abdullah Dalbudak
Mounir Malla
Moussa Moralli
production coordinator
Guylaine O'Reilly
production secretary
Stéphanie Gaudreau
driver
Daniel Brunelle
André Ouellet
production manager for animation
Jelena Popovic
production manager for stereoscopic post-production
Jelena Popovic
animator
Claire Blanchet
Igor Boudnikov
Tom Tassel Boulanger
James Braithwaite
Myron Campbell
Marc Daigle
Florian Fiebig
Dale Hayward
David Seitz
Peter Stephenson
Sarah Taylor
assistant animator
Shannon Hayward
digital imaging specialist
Susan Gourley
Louis-André Fortin
colour consultant - animation
Anne Ashton
computer graphic artist
Nicolas Brault
Denis Roy
technical operations supervisor
Lawrence Lafetière
software development
Simon Drouin
animation and technology liaison
Philippe Lanteigne
digital imaging coordinator
Fred Casia
technical support
Brian Mitchell
Marylin Drolet
digital imaging technician
Yannick Grandmont
Mike Durcak
Neil Doshi
post-production consultant
Christian Kroitor
music
Normand Roger
Pierre Yves Drapeau
Denis Chartrand
sound design
Normand Roger
Pierre Yves Drapeau
Denis Chartrand
sound editing
Olivier Calvert
Dominique Bourgoin
musician
Denis Chartrand
Michel Dubeau
Michel Dupire
Bernard Cormier
Philippe Gélinas
Pierre Yves Drapeau
Andrew Wells-Oberegger
re-recording
Serge Boivin
Jean Paul Vialard
online editor
Denis Gathelier
titles designer
Gaspard Gaudreau
laboratory
Technicolor Creative Services
voice recording production manager
Marysol Moran
Yves Fortin
voice recording - casting
Audio Postproduction SPR Inc.
Audio Zone Inc.
casting camera operator
Salim Hammad
guide voice
Julie Burroughs
Benoit Rousseau
prompter
Nico Gagnon
guide voice editor
Chris Leon
making-of
Philippe Tremblay
Jason Lee
consultant for sound installation
André Gagnon
consultant for projection installation
André Gagnon
consulting historian
Mathieu D'Avignon
content coordinator
Luc Gouin
rights clearances
Michèle Houle
legal advisor
Stéphanie L'Écuyer
partnerships development
Liliane Tremblay
translation
Kathleen Fleming
adaptation
Kathleen Fee
dubbing director
Kathleen Fee
marketing manager
Mia Desroches
Christine Noël
administrator
Diane Régimbald
administrative team
Michèle Labelle
Karine Desmeules
Diane Ayotte
Gisèle Guilbault
Marie-Christine Nadon
Rosalina Di Sario
technical coordinator
Julie Laperrière
Brigitte Sénéchal
associate producer
Maral Mohammadian
project head
Jacques Turgeon
executive producer
René Chénier
David Verrall
producer
Marc Bertrand
René Chénier
David Verrall