La Voisine earns an award at the Atlantic Film Festival

In collaboration with Ginette Pépin, Telefilm Canada

La Voisine, by Pamela Gallant of New Brunswick, earned the best short film award at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax. "It's with great pleasure that we learned about this first honour for Pamela Gallant's film," stated producer Cécile Chevrier, President of Moncton's Productions Phare-Est. "Considering that La Voisine, filmed in French, had to be subtitled for the needs of the Festival, which only accepts English versions in its programming, that's a very good achievement and we mean to warmly congratulate the director." At least fifty films were in the running for this award.

Filmed last spring in the Cap-Pelé region and Shediac, New Brunswick, La Voisine was produced as part of the Interdepartmental Partnership with the Official-Language Communities (IPOLC) between Canadian Heritage and Telefilm Canada, in collaboration with the National Film Board and Radio-Canada. The goal of the initiative was to foster the development of television drama skills among writers, directors and producers working in French outside Quebec. In addition to directing this short film, Pamela Gallant edited it and wrote the script.

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