Jean - Luc brassard, former canadian freestyle
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I've been producing, writing and directing films for 35 years.
I believe that, I had two turning points. One was my first,
when I had a film in competition in Cannes, that's 1985.
And then the second major turning point, more major actually,
was producing Random Passage, a book by Bernice Morgan of Newfoundland.
That book has been called the Roots of Newfoundland. What Roots meant to the Americans,
Random Passage meant to Newfoundlanders. And it was a ten-hour period dramatic series,
an international co-production with Ireland and inter-provincial with Quebec and I'm very proud of it.
And every Newfoundlander, I'm pretty sure, every single Newfoundlander has seen it.
I became involved with the Grand Seduction, I had seen it, ten years ago,
in its' original in French. And then, Roger Frappier approached me at the Atlantic Film Festival and he said,
"I have a film that I think you might be interested in. I want to shoot it in Newfoundland."
And I said, I'm interested. I don't think I've laughed so much
in my entire life as I did for the three months when we were working together surrounded by
Brendan Gleeson, and Taylor Kitsch, Gordon Pinsent, Mary Walsh, Kathy Jones.
You can't help but spend your day laughing. We are still a young industry compared to the United States.
And we're growing. We're getting our films out there. This film is already sold in 21 countries.
