Jean-Pierre Marchant
Education
2021 MFA in Film Production, York University
2012 Electronic Engineering Technician Diploma, Fanshawe College
2004 MA in History, University of Calgary
Films
2024 Date Night - Another Set of Jaws - A Heated Exchange (6.15, video)
2023 Toronto, Old and New (18.00, 16mm film)
2023 Toronto, Old and New (22.00, video)
2022 The Places We Lived (24.00, video from Super8 & 16mm)
2021 A Life on the Borderlands (9.00, video from Super8 & 16mm)
2021 A Parent’s Wishlist (6.00, video from Super8 & 16mm)
2020 Playing Telephone (5.00, incomplete, video)
2020 Looking at Family Pictures with My Mother (3.00, incomplete, video)
2020 My Father the Watchmaker (4.00, video from Super8 & 16mm)
2020 The Sweater (4.00, video from Super8 & 16mm)
2018 Parallax (3.00, video)
2018 Built In Their Image (4.00, video)
2018 Driving Around In Circles (In The Suburbs) (3.00, video)
2016 Fernfeld (4.00, video from Super8 & 16mm)
2016 Walking To Save-On (3.54, video from Super8 & 16mm)
2015 Snake Alley (4.45, video from Super8 & 16mm)
2015 The Hitch-Hiker (30.00, video from Super8 & 16mm)
2014 Visions Of An Imperfect Mind (2.04, video from Super8 & 16mm)
Grants
2020 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2019 Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) MA Fellowship
2019 York University Graduate Fellowship
Arts Grants
2023 Transformations: A Cross Generational Commissioning Project, with filmmaker John Price,
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers (LIFT)
2020 Technicolor Grant
2020 Alter Ego Colour Grading Grant
2017 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Film Project Grant
2017 Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers Production Fund
2015 Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers Production Fund
Film Awards
2022 Award: Best Documentary, aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival for The Places We Lived
2020 Best Screenplay Award for The Sweater
2020 Nominee, “Best Documentary,” “Best Director,” “Best Editing,” for The Sweater
2016 Award, "Best Non-Student Experimental Film," for Walking To Save-On
2015 Award, "Audience Choice for Best Film," for The Hitch-Hiker
Residencies and Working Groups
2024 Independent Imaging Retreat (Phil Hoffman’s Film Farm), Mount Forest, Canada
Teaching
2024 Course Director, FA/FILM 1020 6.0 “Film & Video Production I”
2023-2024 Course Director, FA/FILM 2010 6.0 “Film & Video Production II”
2022-2023 Course Director, FA/FILM 2010 6.0 “Film & Video Production II”
2022 Instructor, FA 5700 “The Power of Small Stories: Making Films with Personal Archives,”
2021 Teaching Assistant, Fine Arts 2010 “Film Production”
Academic Appointments, Workshops, Guest Lectures
2024 "Memory, Remediation, and Mouldy Tapes: The Challenges and Rewards of Preserving Legacy
Media," Archives & Ethics: Preservation, Access, Representation Workshop, University of Aarhus
2023 "The Places We Lived," National Gathering of Latin Canadian Filmmakers, Montreal
2023 "CineMobilia On the Move," iFFO “Save As”: The Future of Preserving, Distributing, and
Exhibiting Heritage Cinema
2022 "A Life on the Borderlands," Orphan Film Symposium on Counter-Archives, Montreal
2021 Live screening and Q&A for: The Places We Lived, Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) Salon Series, York University
2018 "Walking to Save-on: A Visual and Aural Tour of Lethbridge," Galt Museum, Lethbridge, AB