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06/23/2025

04/24/2025

🚀🚀🚀NEW EXCERPT!!🚀🚀🚀

04/14/2025

So much great coverage to come out of Visions du Réel - but this one maybe takes the cake!
"𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 is a technical title for what may be the most visually stunning documentary—or possibly film—we have ever seen."
Read below:

𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐄
"𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 is a technical title for what may be the most visually stunning documentary—or possibly film—we have ever seen." - Montage Review
📰 : bit.ly/SB_MontageReview

2nd screening @ Visions du Réel tomorrow - April 7 ► bit.ly/shiftingbaselines_visionsdureel

Jul Elie | GreenGround | Cinema Belmopan | Les Films du 3 Mars | Filmotor | pixelleX

03/25/2025

SHIFTING BASELINES is coming to Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival!!!

🚀Big news ! Shifting Baselines, directed by Julien Elie will have its North American Premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival!

A chance to unveil the film's amazing poster, designed by Sam Smith ().
Congratulations to the whole team!!

Screenings:
April 26, 2025 - 08:00 PM - TLB1
April 28, 2025 - 02:00 PM - Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema
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🚀Grande nouvelle ! Shifting Baselines réalisé par Julien Elie aura sa première nord-américaine au Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival!

L'occasion de dévoiler la superbe affiche du film, conçue par Sam Smith ().
Félicitations à toute l'équipe !

Horaire des projections :
26 avril 2025 - 20:00 - TLB1
28 avril 2025 - 14:00 - Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema

GreenGround | Cinema Belmopan | Telefilm Canada | SODEC | Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec | Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada | CineGround

10/23/2024

Remise de prix FNC- Measures for a Funeral et Perfectly a Strangeness -

C’est un honneur de recevoir le Grand Prix au sein de la compétition Nationale du Festival du nouveau cinéma - FNC pour notre long-métrage Measures for a Funeral. Félicitations à la réalisatrice Sofia Bohdanowicz, et son équipe de production: Priscilla Galvez, Andreas Mendritzki et Aonan Yang. Nous souhaitons également remercier le festival et les membres du jury, notre équipe de production, ainsi que nos collaborateurs Telefilm Canada, SODEC, Ontario Creates, et l'Orchestre Métropolitain. Merci également à Post-Moderne pour le prix.

De plus, le court-métrage "Perfectly a Strangeness", avec qui nous avons eu le plaisir de collaborer, a remporté le prix du meilleur court-métrage pour la compétition Nationale du FNC. Félicitations à l'équipe, et un énorme bravo à la réalisatrice Alison McAlpine pour son accomplissement.

Quelle magnifique 53e édition du FNC !

We are honored to receive the Grand Prize in the National competition for our film "Measures for a Funeral" at the Festival du nouveau cinéma - FNC. Congratulations to our director Sofia Bohdanowicz and her producing team: Priscilla Galvez, Andreas Mendritzki and Aonan Yang. We want to acknowledge our gratitude to the festival and the jury members, our entire production team, our collaborators Telefilm Canada, SODEC, Ontario Creates, and the Orchestre Métropolitain. Thanks also to Post-Moderne for the award.

Moreover, the short film "Perfectly a Strangeness" with which we had the pleasure of collaborating, won the Best Short Film award in the National competition at the Festival du nouveau cinéma - FNC. Congratulations to the team, and bravo to our director Alison McAlpine for her accomplishment.

09/05/2024

Mesures For a Funeral made it on teh most anticipated autumn festival premieres on Letterboxd

Operatic divas, kidnapped congressmen, Olympic boxers and beyond: all this and more in this year's cream of the crop, premiering across the 2024 fall film festival season.

08/08/2024

MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL will have it's World Premiere at TIFF 24!!

We're so pleased to announce that Sofia Bohdanowicz's forthcoming feature film will be screening as part of the CENTREPIECE program at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.

Co-written and starring Deragh Campbell, the film follows Audrey Benac as she undertakes a haunted research quest to revive violinist Kathleen Parlow's forgotten legacy. Featuring performances by acclaimed violinist Maria Dueñas, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Metropolitain, the film also includes a never before heard performance of Halvorsen's lost Concerto for Violin, OPUS 28.

Thanks so much to all our friends and collaborators who got us here, and especially to Telefilm Canada, SODEC and Ontario Creates.

Showtimes will soon be available here: https://www.tiff.net/events/measures-for-a-funeral

See you soon

12/11/2023

🌟Tahmina🌟 We are thrilled to be awarded to this very competitive fund together with our Dutch and German partners and director, Aboozar Amini.

Four brand new projects have been selected for New Dawn. An independent committee selected 2 documentaries and 2 feature films from a total of 41 applications.

11/21/2023

Quelle soirée!!

L’Orchestre Métropolitain et son chef Yannick-Nézet Séguin ont donné un bouleversant concert à la Maison symphonique, samedi soir, en proposant un monument symphonique soviétique et un concerto qui a tout pour s’inscrire durablement au répertoire.

11/11/2023

📣 OPUS 28 - LIVE 📣
As many of you know we have been hard at work on ’s forthcoming feature OPUS 28. The film is dedicated to reviving the memory of forgotten Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow.
The final piece of the production puzzle comes together next Saturday night, November 18th, as the and Grammy winning smash-hit super star and the will perform for the first time on Canadian soil the lost Halvorsen Violin concerto OPUS 28 - written by the Norwegian composer in Kathleen Parlow's honour and premiered in 1909 with Parlow as soloist. All traces of the composition were assumed lost until a few years ago, when researchers at U of T's Faculty of Music discovered Kathleen's personal copy of sheet music for the piece.
Inspired by this incredible story Sofia Bohdanowicz and wrote their film OPUS 28, and in doing so created a reason to get this piece performed again.
The concert - and the live filming of the concert - happens at the Maison symphonique de Montréal, with the incredible María Dueñas · violinist as soloist, with tickets on sale via the OM’s website.

Head over to the Globe and Mail website to read ’s great article on the concert, the film, and Sofia’s process.

A big thanks to the entire cast and crew, as well as all those who have worked tirelessly to pull this off, including , the OM crew, .sodec and the crew.

See you on the 18th!!!
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11/11/2023

📣 OPUS 28 - LIVE 📣

As many of you know we have been hard at work on Sofia Bohdanowicz's forthcoming feature OPUS 28. The film is dedicated to reviving the memory of forgotten Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow.

The final piece of the production puzzle comes together next Saturday night, November 18th, as the and Grammy winning smash-hit super star Yannick Nezet-Seguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain will perform for the first time on Canadian soil the lost Halvorsen Violin concerto OPUS 28 - written by the Norwegian composer in Kathleen Parlow's honour and premiered in 1909 with Parlow as soloist. All traces of the composition were assumed lost until a few years ago, when researchers at U of T's Edward Johnson Building, Faculty of Music discovered Kathleen's personal copy of sheet music for the piece.

Inspired by this incredible story Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell wrote their film OPUS 28, and in doing so created a reason to get this piece performed again.

The concert - and the live filming of the concert - happens at the Maison symphonique de Montréal, with the incredible María Dueñas · violinist as soloist, with tickets on sale via the OM's site here: https://orchestremetropolitain.com/en/concerts/the-leningrad-symphony/?show_date_id=5871

Head over to the Globe and Mail website to read Barry Hertz's article here (we'd link to it, but you know... Meta is a steaming pile of c**a doodoo) so a screengrab will suffice! :

See you on the 18th!!!

A big thanks to the entire cast and crew, as well as all those who have worked tirelessly to pull this off, including the OM staff, Deutsche Grammophon - DG, Telefilm Canada, SODEC, Ontario Creates, and the CineGround crew.

11/10/2023

📣 OPUS 28 - LIVE 📣

As many of you know we have been hard at work on Sofia Bohdanowicz's forthcoming feature OPUS 28. The film is dedicated to reviving the memory of forgotten Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow.

The final piece of the production puzzle comes together next Saturday night, November 18th, as the Orchestre Métropolitain and Grammy winning smash-hit super star Yannick Nezet-Seguin will perform for the first time on Canadian soil the lost Halvorsen Violin concerto OPUS 28 - written by the Norwegian composer in Kathleen Parlow's honour and premiered in 1909 with Parlow as soloist. All traces of the composition were assumed lost until a few years ago, when researchers at Toronto's Edward Johnson Bldg U Of T faculty Of Music discovered Kathleen's personal copy of sheet music for the piece.

Inspired by this incredible story Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell wrote their film OPUS 28, and in doing so created a reason to get this piece performed again.

The concert - and the live filming of the concert - happens at the Maison symphonique de Montréal, with the increadible María Dueñas · violinist as soloist, with tickets on sale via the OM's site here: https://orchestremetropolitain.com/en/concerts/the-leningrad-symphony/?show_date_id=5871

Read all about it in Barry Hertz's The Globe and Mail article here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/article-inside-one-canadian-filmmakers-quest-to-resurrect-classical-musics/ #:~:text=Arts-,Inside%20one%20Canadian%20filmmaker's%20quest%20to%20resurrect%20classical%20music's,Lady%20with%20the%20Golden%20Bow

See you on the 18th!!!

For Sofia Bohdanowicz, Opus 28 might be the film that helps her break into the Canadian cinema mainstream