The Artists

Anne Lapierre : Beside being co-designer of Boîtes de la paix, she is an actress, puppeteer and visual artist. On the big screen, we saw her in Les signes vitaux (Sophie Deraspe), L’heure bleue (Sara Bourdeau), RESSAC (Pascale Ferland) and What remains (Jérémy Comte). She toured many years with Le Théâtre de l’œil and in 2016, she created her one-woman-show, PENSE-BÊTE (BEASTS), where she married her skills in acting, puppet, objects theatre, body shadows and visual arts. A poetic satire where the animal kingdom settles its scores with the human beast! She persues a multidisciplinary career, always seeking for the best medium to communicate her imagination in a meaningful way.   www.annelapierre.com

Bruno Chouinard : A visual artist with Arts & Letters diplomas from Montreal University, UQAM and Georg Augüst Universität in Göttingen-Germany. He directed and produced three films and shed light for the first time as filmmaker at some international film festivals on four continents with his first film Paolo Chimney Sweep in 2012: Iceland, Greece, China and Bénin. Pouding Chômeurs – Requiem for Unemployment has had his Premiere at the Montreal International Documentary Festival in 2015 and is touring nationally in Quebec after being programmed at the Cinémathèque Québécoise in spring 2016. He won the Grand prize for Best film at the Working Title Film Festival in Vicenza, Italy.        www.lesfilmselgaucho.com