PHARMAKON
Like every winter, the boys get together for a weekend sprinkled with snow and psychotropic drugs. A necessary tradition to abandon oneself, to marvel and to trust the unknown.
Written byJean-Martin Gagnon and
Simon Landry-Désy
Directed by Jean-Martin Gagnon
Starring
Marc Saint-Martin, Étienne Lou,
Joakim Robillard, Christophe Payer,
Victor Choinière-Champigny,
Simon Landry-Désy, Félix-Antoine Cantin and Antoine Rivard-Nolin
2021 | 14 minutes | fiction
fr - sta
Production : art et essai
JEAN-MARTIN GAGNON
Jean-Martin has been directing short fiction and documentary films as well as music videos since 2014. As a member of the Coop Vidéo since 2016, he was also first assistant director on Un paradis pour tous and Un problème d’Infiltration by Robert Morin. His latest short, Puisqu’on se tue toujours trop tard, was presented at Festival Regard in 2019 and in a dozen other festivals around the world. He is currently directing a documentary series on Collège de Maisonneuve, which is co-produced by the NFB.
PRODUCTION : Jeanne-Marie Poulain et Jean-Martin Gagnon
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION : Stéphanie Demers
ASSOCIATED PRODUCERS : Élise Bois, Anaëlle Béglet, Philémon Crête, Simon Landry-Désy et Félix Perreault
CINEMATOGRAPHY : Philémon Crête et Félix Perrault
WARDROBE DEPARTMENT : Simon Landry-Désy
EDITING : Valérie Tremblay
SOUND : Olivier Roger-Larouche et Sylvain Brassard
MUSIC : Marc-Antoine Barbier
FESTIVALS
Gala Prends ça court! 2021 - Prix ACCT
Festival REGARD 2021 - Prix du public UNIS TV
Wallachia Int. Film festival 2021 - Prix Best director
Festival Fantasia 2021 - Fantastique Week-End
Festival Court d'un soir 2021
Festival Les Perséides 2021
Cinéfest Sudbury 2021
Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi 2021
Festival SPASM 2021
Festival Plein(s) Écran(s) 2022
Fantaspoa - Brésil 2022
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma 2022
Fungi Film Festival Portland USA 2022