Brielle LeBlanc

Projects:
The Year Long Boulder, Burnt Toast, Portrait Series #1, Tetherball


Marley O’Brien & Em Grisdale



The Year Long Boulder

Canada | 2022
9 mins
16mm / 8mSynopsis:
A portrait of queer love through the changing seasons as a young writer shares their work with their best friend and discovers the answer to their grief in its release—that there’s strength in vulnerability, laughter in pain, and self-discovery at the heart of self-expression.
Starring: Em Grisdale and Marley O'Brien
Writer/Director: Brielle LeBlanc
Producer: Sean Maheux Galway
Cinematography: Jeff Wheaton
Editor: Molly Gillis
Original Score: Brielle LeBlanc & Andrew LeBlanc

Screenings
World Premiere: The Atlantic International Film Festival (NS)
International Premiere: NewFest: The New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival (NY, US)
Online World Premiere: Vimeo Staff Picks

Telefilm Not Short on Talent: Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Melbourne Queer Film Festival (Australia)
Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival
TIFF Next Wave Film Festival
Halifax Independent Filmmaker’s Festival
Image+Nation Queer Film Festival
Festival Courts d’un Soir
Gimli International Film Festival
Silverwave Film Festival
Charlottetown Film Festival
Exposures Montreal Trans Film Screening Series

REEL East Coast Shorts Season 9 (CBC Gem)
GagaOOLala Queer Film Streaming Service (Taiwan)


Awards & Nominations
Winner: NewFest + Vimeo Award for First-Time Filmmaker
Winner: Best Cinematography at the Atlantic International Film Festival (J. Wheaton)
Winner: Best Atlantic Short at Silverwave Film Festival
Nominated: Best Short at Screen Nova Scotia Awards 2023
Press
Emotional Rocks: The Year Long Boulder at Clermont-Ferrand 2023
(RDV Canada, Jake Howell: Jan. 2023)
NewFest Announces 35th Anniversary Festival Award Winners
(Deadline, Valerie Complex: Nov. 2023)










Burnt Toast (in post-production)

Canada
8 mins
16mm
Narrative/Doc/Experimental

Synopsis: Two duplex neighbours sit on their shared front step and talk about their lives while staring at a demolition lot across the street. A love letter to Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia).

Made with the support of ArtsNS, Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative, and the National Film Board.
Starring: Anna Sparrow & Natasha Kruse
Writer/Director: Brielle LeBlanc
Producers: Brielle LeBlanc & Sean Maheux Galway
Cinematography: Nicole C. Holland
Editor: A. Laurel Lawrence
Original Score: Andrew LeBlanc








Portrait Series #1: Provincetown
(in post-production)

Canada
8 mins
16mm
Narrative/Doc/Experimental

LeBlanc and Alek Green, sound artist, embark on a new extended collaborative series of short films titled "Portrait Series,” where they engage with different spaces to create a site-specific and site-responsive piece. With these projects, LeBlanc handles the visual element and Green handles the sound element, merging their practices. They recently completed the first Portrait during a two-week stay at the acclaimed Peaked Hill Trust Residency in the nationally protected sand dunes of Provincetown, Massachusetts.







Visual: Brielle LeBlanc
Sound: Alek Green





Tetherball (in-development)
Canada
20 mins
16mm
Narrative

Synopsis: A thirty-year-old grieves their mother and rents their childhood home that has been turned into a short-term rental vacation property. 
Writer/director/producer: Brielle LeBlanc


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