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Joséane Brunelle MFA
Joséane Brunelle MFA
Founded by two Montreal artists, authors, and directors who began their film careers over thirty years ago, Lady Liberty Pictures inc. is a multidisciplinary production company whose creative vision extends from the fine arts to the film industry. The company recently expanded to publishing multilingual illustrated children's books that
Founded by two Montreal artists, authors, and directors who began their film careers over thirty years ago, Lady Liberty Pictures inc. is a multidisciplinary production company whose creative vision extends from the fine arts to the film industry. The company recently expanded to publishing multilingual illustrated children's books that have helped introduce recent immigrants to French and English. Entertainment is a given, reflection is a gift.
In 2008 and 2009, they teamed up with a third author and received two screenwriting grants from SODEC for a comedy titled Art House. They adapted the dialogues from English to French for the High Cost of Living which won Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival.
They wrote, directed, and produced several short films, including Fear and Trembling, which premiered at the World Film Festival of Montreal in 2012 and was broadcast on ICI Tou.tv, and Cell from Hell, an episode of a web series, which also premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2013.
In 2016, they created a bilingual comic strip titled Soso & Frieda which they shared daily on social networks. In response to the demand of their followers, the initial individual panels turned into three bilingual books (French and English) and one multilingual illustrated ABCs book. Bringing the shy Chihuahua and exuberant mouse duo of Soso & Frieda to the small or big screen is one of their current projects.
Joséane Brunelle MFA
Joséane Brunelle MFA
Joséane Brunelle MFA
A multidisciplinary artist with a deep passion for visual storytelling, Joséane began her career in the 1980s in set design, working in the art departments of both theatre and film productions. At the same time, she gained recognition as a painter, with her works now part of private collections in Canada, Italy, the United States, and New
A multidisciplinary artist with a deep passion for visual storytelling, Joséane began her career in the 1980s in set design, working in the art departments of both theatre and film productions. At the same time, she gained recognition as a painter, with her works now part of private collections in Canada, Italy, the United States, and New Zealand.
In the 1990s, her growing interest in screenwriting and directing led to a creative partnership with Tristan Tondino. Together, they co-wrote several projects and directed a short film. In 2007, Joséane expanded her skill set by earning a second bachelor’s degree in writing and translation, followed by a master’s in screenwriting, all while contributing a cultural column to an online publication.
In 2012, their short film Crainte et Tremblement was selected by the Montreal World Film Festival and aired on Tou.tv (Radio-Canada) for three years. The following year, Le portable de l’enfer – Episode 1 was also selected by the same festival.
In 2016, she co-founded Les Images de la Liberté / Lady Liberty Pictures Inc., a creative studio where she and Tristan develop film projects, multilingual illustrated books (The Soso and Frieda Collection), and animated miniseries. Since 2021, they have expanded their work into art direction and have also published works by emerging writer-illustrators.
Their creative achievements were recognized with a Directors Guild of America Award for Excellence in Production Design for the television series The Last of Us.
Joséane also shares her love for the arts through teaching at the Visual Arts Centre in Westmount.
Tristan Tondino PhD
Joséane Brunelle MFA
Tristan Tondino PhD
People turn to the visual arts for a variety of reasons. Tristan grew up in a family of artists, surrounded prenatally it seems, by creative types arguing, exhibiting, discussing art, process, meaning, colour, concept, and representation. What he gleaned from this was that pluralism has supreme currency. That is not to say all art is good
People turn to the visual arts for a variety of reasons. Tristan grew up in a family of artists, surrounded prenatally it seems, by creative types arguing, exhibiting, discussing art, process, meaning, colour, concept, and representation. What he gleaned from this was that pluralism has supreme currency. That is not to say all art is good or correct or meaningful, but that there is not a single path towards meaning.
It is no coincidence that his disciplinary focus is “irrealism,” (or 'constructivism'), the area of philosophy that welcomes a plurality of self-created worlds. At the same time, we must avoid reducing science to a purely subjective reception.
His multi-disciplinary background is in philosophy and linguistics. I exhibit in one-man and group gallery shows, am an art director in the film industry (HBO The Last of Us, and Disney+), a filmmaker, co-president of the company Lady Liberty Pictures Inc., and co-author and illustrator of the children’s book series, Soso & Frieda.