Loudvic Beaulne
Country: CanadaFilm aficionado, part time photographer, emerging filmmaker, wannabe showrunner.
I am the son of a graphic designer who would have rather been a cartoonist, and a hairdresser that could have became an international singer. Both of my parents came from the middle class, so their dreams quickly faded with peer pressure. Even though my parents brought me up to chase my dreams; i did the same thing as them. I settled for a job that paid the bills, and a security for my family. But cinema was always lurking in the back of my head from as far as I can remember. So it's no surprise that my mid-life crisis plunged me into a deep thirst to create films. Luckily, now I have something to say, and knowledge to draw upon. Hopefully, it will reflect in my works.
Noah Berc
Country: CanadaNoah Berc (he/him) is a gay Indigenous filmmaker, writer, and performer from Ontario, and a proud member of the Deninu Kųę́ First Nation under Treaty 8. He tells stories that live in the overlap between horror and humour, shame and spectacle, queerness and craving—to be loved, to be seen, even when you're leaking, twitching, or totally falling apart. Noah got his start in front of the camera as an ACTRA actor, working in film, TV, and commercials. That experience taught him how to be watched—how to control the narrative with just a glance or breath—which eventually led him to directing. His work now is where that actor’s intuition meets a writer’s sharp tongue and a filmmaker’s obsession with the awkward, the eerie, and the emotionally exposed. Pimple Patch marks Noah’s directorial debut, and it’s very much a first film in the best way: personal, scrappy, and too honest to be cool. He draws from queer theory, Indigenous storytelling, and the guts of genre filmmaking to create stories that are as heartbroken as they are hilarious. Noah is headed to Queen’s University to pursue an MA in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies, where he’ll continue to explore the weird and tender intersections of queerness, horror, and identity on screen. He makes work for the freaks, the feelers, and anyone who’s ever had a panic attack in a public washroom.
