Meet the Filmmakers

Alexandre Isabelle - À toi les oreille

Quebec City filmmaker and philosophy teacher Alexandre Isabelle envisions his short films as aphorisms. Through their poetry, he seeks to inspire existential reflections. His short The Sugaring Off, which has earned him the most accolades yet, convinced him to establish his own production company, Silène Films, in order to create more works in line with his artistic vision. Since 2021, his short Therefore, Socrates Is Mortal continues its tour of national and international festivals. 2024 will be the year of the release of his new short À toi les oreilles.

Tom Bell - An Extraordinary Place

Tom Bell is a former reporter for the Anchorage Daily News and the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He lives in Yarmouth, Maine, and works as a photographer and documentary filmmaker. His company is wickedcreativefilmcompany.com

Liz McGregor - Between the Lines

Liz was drawn to film at a very young age. Making films on her dad's betamax recorder eventually led to film classes at the New School for Social Research which then brought her to her first independent film set in NYC. Liz has worn many hats in film and video: from product placement to producing to film festival organizing. Liz loves the medium and all its depth and layers. This film is Liz's second production sponsored by NRS (Northwest River Supplies). Liz splits the year between Newcastle, Maine, and Futaleufú, Chile where she lives with her family.

Martin Amiot - Blitzmusik

Martin has been working as a director since 2012. He has to his credit several brand content projects, documentaries, and a documentary TV series, VolteFace. This series, broadcast on ICI Explora, earned him the Gémeau for Best Documentary TV Series Direction in 2015. His web series Mon précieux déchet for Bell Média won the Gémeau for Best Digital Magazine in 2021.

From one project to another, Martin switches between director, director of photography, and editor. His documentary I BIKE, about Montreal's fixed gear cycling scene, has traveled to festivals, receiving special mentions in Germany, Belgium, France, and the United States. Martin recently received a production grant from SODEC and CALQ for his first fiction short film, Blitzmusik. He also gained the trust of Creators en Série (TV5 Fund), who awarded him a production grant for an upcoming web series What's Going Well Today.

Meredith Holch - Brother Bird

Meredith Holch is an independent filmmaker specializing in mixed-media stop-motion animation. She is committed to producing work about socially relevant themes. Holch’s animation and videos have been broadcast on PBS and have screened at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in NYC; the National Art Gallery in Washington, DC; The Exploratorium in San Francisco; the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston; as well as at international film festivals, art galleries, and colleges and universities. She particularly enjoys showing her animations at community spaces such as grange halls, libraries, the walls of endangered community gardens, and the sides of old barns near her home in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.

Duane Peterson III - The Celebration

Duane Peterson III is a documentary filmmaker, film editor, and short film programmer focused on stories at the intersection of outdoor recreation and environmental conservation. He lives and works in Vermont.

Charles-François Asselin - Cocotte Coulombe, filmmaker

Charles-François Asselin is a director from Quebec City who completed his bachelor's degree in film studies at the University of Montreal. Through his films, he questions the different facets of cinema and the act of creation with an approach that is as playful as it is reflective.

Jean Boileau - La comtesse de Sainte-Cécile

Born in Trois-Rivières in 1959, Jean Boileau is a screenwriter, author, playwright, actor, and photographer. For 15 years, he has collaborated on writing screenplays with filmmaker André Forcier. His short stories are published in XYZ La revue de la nouvelle. His plays are presented in Quebec and New Brunswick, and his photographs are published in L’Oeil de la photographie and other magazines.

Gaelen Kilburn - Coywolf

Gaelen Kilburn is a documentary filmmaker and recent graduate of the University of Vermont where he studied global studies and documentary film. His films focus on social and environmental issues, inequalities, and injustices. He's currently working on a film about the Intervale floods as well as a project following a refugee soccer team in Burlington. 

Alex Anna - Create; survive

Alex Anna is a director in love with cinematographic language and words in all their beauty. A queer and feminist filmmaker, they use art to give a voice to silenced subjects. Their short film Scars premiered in TIFF 2020 and won over 30 prizes in more than 90 festivals.

Robert Tokanel - Don't Judge Me

Rob Tokanel is a documentary filmmaker and all-formats video producer and editor. His previous experience ranges from augmented reality to social-first news to international print and video reporting. In 2022, he received New England Regional Emmy Awards for his work on GBH News projects The Curiosity Desk and COVID and the Classroom. He co-directed the award-winning 2018 short documentary She’s Not a Boy, which is currently hosted for streaming by The Atlantic. He is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and a former Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow and Brown Institute for Media Innovation Grantee.

Jeremy Peter Allen - Fuck Les Whites

Jeremy Peter Allen has directed a feature film, Manners of Dying (opening film at the RCVQ in 2005, presented and awarded at several international festivals), the first season of the TV series Chabotte et fille (2009), and more than a dozen short projects (Requiem contre un plafond, L'est, À la plage, Robert Lepage, Permission de visite, etc. 

Chris Hardee - Good-bye to a House

Chris Hardee, founder of High Cairn Films, creates documentaries focused on the intersection of nature and culture that help illuminate a path forward. Recent projects include a feature-length documentary exposé with other filmmakers on the destruction of forests for energy, a documentary short profiling a retired forester and his low-impact forestry philosophy, and two short documentaries on nature-based education. These films have been accepted, and won awards, in numerous film festivals, screened internationally, and broadcast on regional public television stations. Previously, Hardee co-founded and co-directed Monadnock Media, a non-profit media organization where he created audio, video, film, interactive, multimedia, and immersive productions for a wide array of museums, parks, and historic sites nationwide. He has also been a freelance writer, an educator, and an evaluator of environmental education programs.

Seth Grant - Harry's

When I was younger, I was never seen without a book. My world was split between my imagination and real life. The world changed drastically when I discovered a camera. Stories, images, and life all came crashing together. I was able to share the worlds in my imagination, and create experiences that could be shared with others. Beyond storytelling, filmmaking has been my key to building and finding community. It has let me make projects with teams of creative individuals as well as explore stories in new communities. I find filmmaking to be a true way to share my voice and the voice of others. I hope to continue creating, making friends, and finding community with every story I’m behind.

Emai Lai - Introducing Mimi

Introducing Mimi is a film co-created by director Emai Lai and screenwriter Amy Chu. Emai Lai is a Boston-based filmmaker who has created sketch comedy videos and narrative short films. Emai’s previously directed short film, Key Change, was featured in the Mystic Film Festival and was a semifinalist for the Student Los Angeles Film Awards. Since then, she has helped produce Yumeji House Pictures’ Mandarins and the upcoming short Cherry-Colored Funk—both films about Asian American and immigrant experiences.

Amy Chu has written scripts, personal essays, and comics. Her comics and illustrations have been published in magazines, such as The Commuter and Slant’d. She is a regular contributor to the cooperatively owned newsletter Flaming Hydra. Amy thinks a lot about how our identity shapes our relationships in life and love.

Gavin Michael Booth - Island Life

Gavin Booth is a Canadian filmmaker. Booth broke new filmmaking ground teaming up with producer Jason Blum to create Blumhouse's Fifteen, the world's first movie broadcast live. He also directed the Canadian horror film The Scarehouse (Universal Studios). Booth's latest, the drama Last Call, is a split-screen feature film. It has no hidden cuts as the film plays out with two camera crews in different parts of a city, showing two sides of a story unfolding in real-time. Last Call was named one of the best films of 2021 so far by Harper's Bazaar.

Booth wrapped production on a sci-fi music-focused feature film Primary and directed the upcoming drama Sydney vs. Sean, starring Janel Parrish (Pretty Little Liars) and TR Knight (Grey's Anatomy). Booth has also directed over 100 music videos, including multi-platinum artists such as Third Eye Blind, SYML, Bleu, and Todrick Hall.

Lukas Huffman and Erika Senft Miller - Kintsugi Angel

Lukas Huffman is an award-winning writer and director based in Vermont. Huffman’s narrative feature film, When the Ocean Met the Sky (2016), won more than a dozen awards worldwide and was selected for the Toronto International Film Festival Circuit. He has been commissioned to create films for networks and organizations such as The New York Times, Vice Media, ESPN, The Boston Globe, the National Wildlife Federation, and more. Huffman's experimental films push the boundaries of storytelling formats and become visual poems. 

Erika Senft Miller is a multi-sensory artist who orchestrates large-scale collaborative, community-based, site-specific productions. Senft Miller’s most recent work, The Net Works, a multi-sensory installation that invited visitors into the tender human moments at the heart of Gloucester’s fishing community, was created in collaboration with and supported by artists and members in the Gloucester fishing community, Manship Artist Residency, New England Foundation for the Arts, The Vermont Arts Council, The Bruce J. Anderson Foundation, Maritime Gloucester, and Awesome Gloucester. Her sculptures, drawings, prints, and paintings have been exhibited and sold throughout Vermont and Massachusetts.

Laetitia Angba and Julie R. Lissouba - Lana

Born in Côte d'Ivoire and raised in Montreal, Laetitia Angba is a young cosmopolitan imbued with an early thirst for changing the world. She devoted many years to social and community involvement. Eager to nurture her creativity and storytelling prowess, she embarked on a transformative journey by participating in the second edition of Je me vois à l'écran, orchestrated by the collective Black on Black Films. Her screenplay for Lana garnered the coveted jury prize at the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma. Subsequently, she produced an experimental short film PATHS | SENTIERS in collaboration with the Phi Centre as part of their InFlux program. In 2021, she joined the ranks of emerging filmmakers at Forge Québec Cinéma, presented by Netflix, a creative forge dedicated to the future of cinema. There, she collaborated with Jorge Camarotti on the development of the feature film Edith. Currently, Laetitia is both the visionary screenwriter and director of her web series project Tantie, which received development funding from the Independent Production Fund (FIP).

Through her works, Julie Redon Lissouba delves into themes inseparable from her life: travel, identity, and a committed anti-colonial perspective. Following her bachelor's degree in literature and cinema in Montreal, Canada, Julie pursued her studies in cinema at La Casa Del Cine in Barcelona, Spain, where she honed the art of documentary filmmaking. Returning to Quebec, she continued her education in documentary filmmaking through a microprogram at the L’inis (L'institut national de l'image et du son), where she created the short film Sans attaches (2019). Driven by her passion for directing, she embarked on the Cinema Program at the same institute, culminating in 2020 with her directorial achievement, the fiction short film Ève et Fatima. In 2022, she further expanded her technical skills by enrolling in the cinematography program at L’inis.

Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers - Lease Me Alone!

Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers holds a BFA in Film Production from Concordia University and an MFA in Acting from the Drama Center London (UAL) and a professional certificate in feature writing from L’INIS. During her studies, she had the chance to perform at the Shakespeare Globe in London and the Vakthangov Theatre in Moscow. Sandrine has performed music since primary school (cello and singing) and sometimes she composes scores for her films.

Sandrine wrote and directed over 15 short films and one feature that were screened in different festivals around the world. She won several prizes such as the Crystal Bear at the Berlinale, the Grand Prix Canadian at Regard (Oscars qualifying prize), two nominations at the Canadian Screen Awards, selection at TIFF, Canada TOP10, and many more. Sandrine is now writing her next features, Les Éphémères and Noémie La Nuit.

Christopher Wiersema - light in my eyes

Christopher Wiersema (he/him) is a Vermont based award-winning media artist, educator, and arts administrator, working in experimental film, documentary practice, and community media. He is the founder and director of the Vermont Youth Documentary Lab.

Through poetic documentaries, experimental non-narrative film, essay film, and found footage collage, his work has focused on landscape, everyday life, labor, and personal and cultural memory. Originally from the Chicagoland area, Christopher Wiersema’s films and videos have been screened at ID/Identities (Istanbul, Turkey); Bring Your Own Beamer (Caracas, Venezuela); the New Newness and Signal to Noise (Chicago, Illinois); and the Portland Experimental Film Festival (Portland, Oregon); and featured on Vermont Public, Indiana Public Media, and Democracy Now! His most recent project, Rough Blazing Star, is the 2024 winner of the Vermont Public Award for Best Documentary at the Made Here Film Festival in Burlington, Vermont, and is being distributed with the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre.

Christopher Wiersema lives in Central Vermont with his partner and their two sons, where he currently serves as executive director of Mad River Valley Television, lecturer in Media Studies at Norwich University’s Department of Global Humanities, and festival director of the Green Mountain Film Festival.

Alexa Tremblay-Francoeur - The Little Ancestor

Alexa Tremblay-Francoeur is a visual artist and traditional 2D animator specializing in the creation of animated short films. In 2016, her first film, Le passage, received the relève régionale prize at the 20th edition of the Regard short film festival. She has been working professionally as a 2D animator since 2019 and, during the same year, participated in the Dessins animés project instigated by La bande Sonimage, from which she created the short film Affannato, selected in twenty regional, national, and international festivals.

Emmanuel Rioux - Losing Your Home

In 2022, Emmanuel directed Cendres, his first fiction short film, which was shown in several festivals. In the last year, he also directed the second season of the web series Moi, j’habite nulle part, which was nominated for three prizes at the 2023 Gémeaux awards. Juste un toi is his first documentary short film.

Aubert Sénéchal - Love in the desert

Aubert is a director, cinematographer, and musical composer originally from Quebec City. A recent graduate of Concordia University, his artistic practice is characterized by an exploration of the concepts of family, home, and fear. In addition to being in charge of events at the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, he co-founded Les films du Balcon with William Pagé. His latest film, L'Amour dans le désert, was distributed by the Spira cooperative over the course of 2024.

Chantale Boulianne - M. L’espérance

Chantale Boulianne holds a master's degree in Fine Arts, and her approach revolves around the body in movement and its use in artistic space. A multidisciplinary artist, she has distinguished herself in scenography, visual art, experimental music, design, and animated film.

Rachel Trudeau - Mataperra

Rachel Trudeau, a rising filmmaker and director based in Quebec, is known for her passion for the mountains, both as a personal playground and as a source of inspiration for her cinematic works. With a focus on themes of identity, femininity, and community, her creations delve deep into the human experience.

Sophie Valcourt - Never Anywhere

Sophie is an emerging filmmaker, native from the Côte-Nord region and a graduate of Concordia University's Film Production program. Although she hasn't lived there for nine years, her native region remains one of her greatest inspirations. Memories, landscapes, and people are at the heart of her creative universe. As the region is often portrayed through a tourist's eye, Sophie seeks to offer a more intimate portrait and let the heart of the territory shine through its inhabitants.

John Schlag - Panes Taking

John is the screenwriter/filmmaker behind Infinovation Film, whose previous work includes M.T. Nestor, an award-winning sci-fi short. A former VFX guru, his experience includes Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, Star Trek Generations, The Matrix Reloaded and Watchmen. John has also worked as a consultant, manager, and software engineer at Google, Adobe, Sony, Nvidia, Esc, and elsewhere. He appears in the documentary Jurassic Punk as himself.

Laurence Lévesque - Perseids

In 2019, Laurence directed Port d’Attache, her first documentary short. The film was selected at Visions du Réel, won Best National Short at RIDM, and was nominated for Best Short at the Québec-Cinéma gala. In 2022, Laurence completed a master's degree in documentary writing and directing. Perséides is her second short film.

Matthew Myer Boulton - The Power of Water

Matthew Myer Boulton is creative director at SALT Project, a production company based in Keene, New Hampshire. SALT's films have won five regional Emmys and have been featured in the New York Times, exploring subjects from nighttime bird migration to the Earthrise photograph, green architecture to land conservation. 

Bob Krist - The Puppet Master

Bob Krist is a freelance photographer and filmmaker whose work has taken him to all seven continents. He has been stranded on a glacier in Iceland, nearly run down by charging bulls in southern India, and knighted with a cutlass during a Trinidad voodoo ceremony.

A longtime contract photographer for National Geographic, Krist was named Travel Photographer of the Year by the Society of American Travel Writers three times—in 1994, 2007, and 2008. He has also won awards in the Pictures of the Year, Communication Arts, and World Press Photo competitions. His most recent book is a black and white monograph of portraits and landscapes called Old Souls & Timeless Places (2019). It won the Gold Medal for Best Travel Book, 2020 in the Lowell Thomas competition.

A late-career convert to video storytelling, his short films have been exhibited in film festivals in the US, Iceland, and Italy, as well as National Geographic’s website, and have won gold and silver awards for broadcast travel journalism In the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism competition, administered by the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism. After the Covid pandemic, Bob traveled to the Azores, Mexico, Venice and Maine to produce the travel documentary series Off the Beaten Path for Wondrium (formerly The Great Courses). Recently, he has moved that project over to his new YouTube channel.

Brendan Choisnet - ReEntry

Brendan Choisnet is the owner of Plywood Pictures and co-founder of PlotNaut. A producer and director, he’s spent the past 18 years telling wonder-filled stories about love and human connection. 

He’s served his clients across the country and globe. His company Plywood Pictures has become a trusted partner for product launches for some of the world’s biggest brands such as Google, Twitter, Disney, ESPN, DoorDash, Penguin Random House, New York University, the Boy’s & Girl’s Club, and the Red Cross.

As a film director his work includes The Cult of Sincerity, the television show STARTUP, and several shorts with global distribution. When he isn’t plotting, he’s seeking adventure with his two kids and squeezing in as much tennis as possible.

James S Merkel and Deborah Shaffer - Saving Walden's World

Jim Merkel (director, producer) is an author and educator who moved from top-secret military engineering to pioneering in sustainability. His book, Radical Simplicity, has been used as text in hundreds of university classes. Jim authored a chapter in Bending the Arc, by SUNY Press, which highlighted this film’s larger goals. A 2005 Jan Cannon film, radically simple tracks Jim's work as Dartmouth College's sustainability coordinator. In 1994 Merkel received an Earthwatch Gaia Fellowship to research efficient resource use in Kerala, India, and visited communities in the Himalayas. The following year he founded the Global Living Project in British Columbia, where teams of researchers monitored ecological footprints. He and his partner, Susan Cutting, and their child, Walden, grow much of their food and live off-the-grid in a home they built from oaks and pines from their land in Belfast, Maine.

Deborah Shaffer (director, interviewer (Cuba), executive consultant) is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker who began making social issue documentaries as a member of the Newsreel collective in the ’70s. She co-founded Pandora Films, one of the first women's film companies. She directed The Wobblies, which premiered at the prestigious New York Film Festival in 1979 and was restored in 2022. During the ’80s, Shaffer focused on human rights in Central America and Latin America, directing many films including Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements, which won the Academy Award for Short Documentary in 1985. Her films Fire from the Mountain and Dance of Hope played at the Sundance Film Festival. She directed and produced To Be Heard, which won awards at numerous festivals and aired nationwide on PBS. She's received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Irene Diamond Lifetime Achievement Award by the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. In 2023 Deborah received the Lifetime Achievement Award at DOCNYC along with Michael Moore.

Sarah Foulkes - Soft Lock

Sarah Foulkes is a filmmaker, actor, educator, and film critic working in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Québec. Unbounded by genre or medium, Sarah sees every new project as an opportunity to expand the framework of her thinking and image-making. She is most interested in exploring labor, melodrama, and narrativity through image and sound. Her YouTube makeup tutorial supercut, Contours, is distributed by Video Pool Media Arts Centre. Her latest work is Soft Lock, a fiction short about a dance student and bike courier. She is currently in development for a feature film and several short film projects

Chantal Caron - Somber Tides

Choreographer and filmmaker Chantal Caron's visual signature has always been inspired by the St. Lawrence River and the natural elements that make up its ecosystem. Her works are inspired by the living and embodied in contemporary dance. A member of the Order of Canada and recipient of CALQ's Artist of the Year award in 2023, her short films have been selected and awarded around the world since 2015 for their unique aesthetics.

Isabelle Grignon-Francke - The Sparkle (L'Artifice)

Isabelle Grignon-Francke is a director, producer, and co-founder of Club Vidéo. After she graduated with a degree in journalism, she took a cinematographic turn with the production of a first short film, Les Petits Trophées, in 2019 (RIDM, Regard, Cinéma on the Bayou, RVQC), then through the production of multiple fiction and documentary shorts films. She has just finished L'Artifice, a documentary about fairground workers. In parallel with her professional life, she is completing a master's degree in research-creation on the representation of otherness in documentary. From time to time, she writes literary and dramatic texts. Isabelle has a particular interest in intimate, raw stories and international filming. She is currently writing her first fiction, a thriller: The end of insomniacs. 

Virgile Ratelle - Summer Love

Having grown up with the skateboarding community, Virgile Ratelle has always gravitated towards a camera and the idea of documenting the present moment. Oscillating between filming skateboarding and Nordic surfing, he decided to orient his future in cinema. He completed his bachelor's degree in visual production at UQAM in 2021 with his graduation film Lost Dans l'Paradise, which had great success at a number of festivals in Quebec and internationally. He nestles in a "neo direct cinema" documentary cinema and confirms his refined and amorous style with Summer Nights (2022), which captures the intimacy of two best skateboarding friends during the summer across 15 years.

Alexia Roc - Three Screaming Vaginas

Alexia Roc is a 27-year-old Quebec-Haitian screenwriter, director, and artistic director based in Montreal. She particularly likes writing unique and real characters to illustrate different realities that we don't often see on screen. Her feminist activism and her Métis origins push her to speak out on subjects that are extremely dear and close to her. With a master's degree in film production from Concordia University, she is interested in different forms of feminist cinematic experiments as therapeutic means to redefine and understand experiences of abuse and trauma.

She produced and directed her social web series, Entre Parenthesis, which has been distributed by MAtv since 2021, featuring duos discussing sensitive contemporary subjects and opening dialogue on many social issues. Her short film Bergen, Norway won the Tourner à tout Prix grand prize at the Festival Regard in 2023 and is showing it in several other festivals such as Fantasia, the Festival Émergence de Montréal, Pleins screens, and Mutoscope de Lyon. Alexia is currently in pre-production of her next short film, Aux Garcons de Mon Age, which is supported in production by SODEC.

Graydon Hanson - Unnatural Hearts

Graydon Hanson is a current senior Film and Media Culture major at Middlebury College in Vermont. He has always had a passion for film and began developing his skills in early creative writing and stop-motion animation classes, followed by writing, directing, and editing short films with a range of subjects, styles, and formats. Chosen to participate in the Student Symposium at the Telluride Film Festival in 2022, he has subsequently worked for the Festival in the Education Department, as well as working for the Tribeca Film Festival. A composer and musician as well, Graydon uses music as inspiration for the films he has made.

Aynsley Floyd - The Vermonter

Aynsley Floyd is an editorial still photographer turned documentary filmmaker. She has over 20 years of experience professionally shooting still photos for newspapers, wire services, magazines and corporations. In 2019, she turned her attention to filmmaking, and earned a master’s in Visual Arts from Emerson College. Her film The Mountain Dogs was licensed by Vermont PBS' Made Here, and accepted into both the Woods Hole Film Festival and the Vail Film Festival. Her next film, Turkey Town, was licensed by WGBH Boston and several other New England PBS affiliates. It was also accepted into the Globe Docs Film Festival and the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival. Aynsley is an affiliated faculty member at Emerson College, and teaches documentary filmmaking to undergraduates.

Natalie Jones - Visitant

Natalie Jones is a Vermont-based experimental filmmaker who works with the landscape.

Aucéane Roux - Washed Away

As a Montreal-based filmmaker, Aucéane Roux graduated from the UQAM School of Media in directing. She likes to explore the relationship between space and time and this is what led her to visit a flooded village in the Beauce region.

Emma K. Lowery - Waves

Emma Lowery is an aspiring stop-motion animator/filmmaker. I began making stop motions in high school and I have continued to pursue this field from my time there and well into college. Stop-motion has become something I hope to do as a career one day. I also have a huge passion for film/filmmaking so my favorite way I like to tell my visions is by making stop-motion films. My goal when making these short films is to not only sharpen my skills with stop-motion but to also tell compelling stories for all ages.

Samuel LaPointe - We Could Be Nemeses

Samuel LaPointe was born in parts unknown and transplanted to rural Upstate New York, whereupon he fairly quickly contracted a taste for the fantastical. Continuing to grow at a rate of not-at-all followed by all-at-once he began to explore storytelling as means to emotionally connect with friends and family, and corral said friends and family into wildly ambitious projects for a teenager with a mini-tape camera. Upon graduation and being set loose upon the unsuspecting world, LaPointe set aside burgeoning plans of world domination to continue honing his skills in filmmaking with hope of one day creating works that resonate with others as much as his favorites do with him. At this time his whereabouts are unknown.