From Book to Screen | Bergers
Free activity
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Sessions
| Wednesday, 22 April | 18:30 | Salle Alfred-DesRochers |
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Book-to-film adaptations are a genre of their own. While full of promise for readers, these adaptations also bring many challenges. How can one remain faithful to a text when images take over? How can a story be adapted without merely copying it? What kind of relationship does a filmmaker develop with the book they want to bring to the screen?
Jean‑François Létourneau, a professor at Cégep de Sherbrooke, along with Bergers director Sophie Deraspe and writer Mathyas Lefebure, will engage in a discussion to explore the challenges and rewards of such an adaptation.
Free activity
In collaboration with the Salon du livre de l’Estrie, the Cégep de Sherbrooke, and Canadian Film Day.
Presented film:
Guests
Jean-François Létourneau Enseignant | Cégep de Sherbrooke
Jean-François Létourneau is the co-author of an essay with Sébastien Langlois that explores Quebec memory through traditional song (En montant la rivière, 2023). His previous publications form a cycle devoted to territory: the novel Le territoire sauvage de l’âme (2021), the audiobook of the show Sur les traces du territoire (2019), and the essay Le territoire dans les veines (2017), on belonging to the territory through the reading of First Nations poets. Finally, he edited, with Naomi Fontaine and Olivier Dezutter, the anthology on the writings of the First Peoples, Tracer un chemin / Meshkanatsheu (2017).
Will attend:
- Wednesday, 22 April | 18:30 - Salle Alfred-DesRochers
Sophie Deraspe Membre du jury | Présidente du jury international | Réalisatrice et scénariste
It was visual arts and literature that led Sophie Deraspe to screenwriting and directing fiction and documentary films in which social and existential issues rub shoulders with formal audacity. Her filmography includes six feature films, including Antigone (2019) and Bergers (2024), both of which won Best Canadian Film in their respective years at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Antigone received remarkable critical acclaim and represented Canada in the race for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Bergers was a popular success in both Quebec and France before being distributed in several countries. Sophie is currently working on a…
Will attend:
- Wednesday, 22 April | 18:30 - Salle Alfred-DesRochers