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My Father's Studio

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My Father's Studio

On the traces of Edmund Alleyn...

An insider's look on how art impacts life.

Inheriting her father's studio in 2005, Montreal-based filmmaker Jennifer Alleyn awakes after the funeral to find herself drawn to this intimate space, still exuding the artist's imagination. The film is an attempt to prolong the dialogue, to find the missing fragments of her father's life and understand this free thinker's mind. Edmund Alleyn was an intense and complex man of integrity who left his mark on Canadian art history.

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Director

Jennifer Alleyn

In 1992, filmmaker Jennifer Alleyn travelled around the world while participating in the TV series La Course destination Monde . She also worked as a journalist for the paper Le Devoir and for the Radio-Canada information program Le Point . Her participation in the collective feature film Cosmos , which won an award at Cannes in 1997, and her award-winning 2005 short Svanok , confirm her talent. Parallel to her work as an Indy filmmaker, Jennifer directed her first series for television: Canadian Casefiles . After her documentary film The Rossys , Jennifer herein combines her two life passions: art and the search for meaning. Following her critically-acclaimed Jacques Monory's Imaginary Life, My Father's Studio focuses on the legacy of an artist's way of looking at life.

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Mirror - May 8th, 2008