Press Release
August 9, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Bob Cooper, prguynow@yahoo.com 401-447-6474 Days/Evenings
Luc Beauchamp, beauchampluc@hotmail.com 514-816-7975
Denis McCready, denismccready@gmail.com 514-808-7587
Festival workers label Canadian Film a “Surprising
Success”
(Providence , Rhode Island , USA – Quebec , Canada) The Canadian film “Arthur’s Paradise / Le Paradis d’Arthur” by filmmaker Luc Beauchamp has been noted by festival workers at the 11th Rhode Island International Film Festival held in Providence , Rhode Island as a “surprising success.”
Workers say the film attracted a good crowd despite its screening time slot on a weekday afternoon, and the competition from other films playing against it in the same time slot. Those films included “Dalai Lama Renaissance” (Narrated by Harrison Ford and screening right next door), “Salim Baba,” “Secondhand (Pepe),” and “'Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?', A Cape Verdean American Story.”
Some moviegoers brought their own folding chairs. When questioned they explained they wanted to ensure a seat at the film made for attendees of all nationalities, as its dialogue reportedly had successfully transcended all language by using the universal tongue of music.
Directed, produced and financed by award winning producer Luc Beauchamp, the film was made in collaboration with the Canadian National Film Board (NFB) and Office National Du Film Du Canada (ONF) who support audiovisual works that provide Canada and the world with a unique Canadian perspective. It is independently distributed by Netima in Canada.
The 50 minute film starts as a visual documentary of a farmer’s routine life on a pig farm in Quebec , completely in harmony with the music he plays of opera singer Victoria Rossellini on an old 33 record piped into the barn. But when the record disappears, everything changes into a surrealistic fantasy as the pigs go on a hunger strike, chickens cluck out catastrophic warnings and the farmer frantically tries to restore harmony by playing other music including opera, a disco celebrity, and even an entire mariachi band chasing him around the barn. Order is finally restored to the farm by a visitation from the Virgin Mary.
Filmmaker Luc Beauchamp and his Associate Producer Denis McCready also appeared at the festival, and have done a number of interviews with local and regional news media.
The award ceremony will be held on Saturday evening, August 11, 2007 .
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