Talent

Anaïs Venegas-Grün graduated from the 2020 Documentary and Fiction Mixed Program (Production profile) at L’inis. She is a director, screenwriter, and visual artist.

Anaïs is passionate about queer cinema, on-screen representation, and spirituality. She loves the creation and transformation of feelings into matter. The physical and the metaphysical always serve to discover life and then intertwine in creation. All actions are for the love of life, humanity, and cinema.

Experienced in dance and cinema, Asmina Thirunavukarasu is an artist of Tamil origin whose approach is based on empathy and imagination.

Having studied Cinema and Communications at Cegep de Saint-Laurent and screenwriting at University du Quebec of Montreal (UQAM), Asmina has worked on sets as an actress – notably for the short film ‘’The Finesse’’ by artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas –, and as a co-producer for the short film ‘’Movimentum’’, commissioned by the Jean-Paul Riopelle Foundation.

Asmina is also currently a dancer for the plays ‘’Endiablée’’ and ‘’Creatura’’, and a production director for Forward Movements. She brings an exceptional degree of sensitivity and attention to detail to her work, reflecting her desire to forge deep connections through art.

Azza Baaziz was born and raised in Tunisia. After studying visual arts in Paris, then communication and culture, Azza worked in different fields, ranging from teaching in Senegal to journalism in Tunisia and finally moved into cinema.

In 2019, she graduated from the Infocus Film School in Vancouver. She then made several short films in Canada. She also played in “Les silences du palais” by Moufida Tlatli, awarded in 2000 at the Cannes Film Festival. Her latest short film "The Red Moon" was awarded at the Lebanese Independent Film Festival in Lebanon, in the Special Diversity Award category. In Montreal, Azza is currently working as a cinema production coordinator at Midi La Nuit.

Erika Zur Nedden is an artist and script supervisor based in Montreal. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Communications with a minor in Art History at Concordia University in 2020. During her studies, Erika specialized in interactive and video works, searching for communal connection within the individual.

For the past three years, Erika has worked in the cinema and television industry in Montreal. She has participated in a wide variety of projects, notably as a production manager with the Migration Dance Film Project and as a script supervisor in publicity and webseries.

Gabriela de Andrade is a director and producer living in Montreal since 2009. Born in Rio, Brazil, she has worked for prestigious television channels such as TF1, BBC kids, Globo, TV Brasil and MeteoMedia. In Montreal, she graduated with a master's degree in cinema studies (University of Montreal), and then turned to the world of documentary cinema.

In Quebec, Gabriela directed two short films, selected at the Fort-Coulonge International Women’s Film Festival (2019) and the International Festival of Films on Art (2020). The profession of script supervisor inaugurates a new stage in her professional career: that of narrative film.

Laurianne Robitaille's career in cinema began in 2021 in Montreal at the Collège de Maisonneuve in the Arts, Letters and Communication program (Cinema profile). The second she sat in class, Laurianne knew she wanted to work in the cinema industry. She then became a production assistant and started working on different TV shows. Subsequently, a script supervisor took her under their wing as an intern, on the feature film called “Oublier Charlotte”. It was very formative for her and it confirmed her desire to evolve in the Continuity Department. Laurianne continued learning about continuity with the class she took with l’AQTIS 514 IATSE : Initiation au métier de scripte, before entering the Training and Mentoring program at L’inis.

Louise Babin was born in France and, at the age of 10, moved with her family to Montreal. Having a long-standing passion for films and television series, she decided to pursue a bachelor's degree in cinema at the University of Montreal. She then got involved in several student and amateur short films projects, as a script supervisor and editor. After her studies, she began working in the film industry as a production assistant and a craft assistant. Today, she hopes to pursue a career as a script supervisor.

Souley Keïta is an emerging script supervisor, screenwriter and director who is interested in social fiction. After a university stint in social and cultural history, all roads led him back to cinema, with degrees in screenwriting and directing, and with a role as a film critic. He began as a script supervisor on the short film « Sirius » by Jean-Bastien Niyigaruye. With his first name meaning ‘’ peace ’’, Souley will never cease to be the memory of a set as a script supervisor, to bring fullness and his cinematographic passion to a film set.

Born in Montreal, Thierry Gauvin has worked in various professional fields, including customer service, food industry and administration. However, his passion for cinema awakened in him the desire to immerse himself in this universe, initially as a simple hobby. Thierry began his discovery of this world by participating in different film shoots, first as an observer, then by taking on roles as an extra, craft person and actor. With each experience on set, he became curious and interested in the profession of script supervisor. This motivated him to start training in this field to deepen his knowledge and possibly make a career out of it.