Michel Forgues / Docuweb director

Stage director at the Théâtre de Quat Sous, La Veillée, La Licorne; comedian, he played Nelligan, Novecento; screenwriter, former radio host at Radio-Canada, dramatics teacher (UdM), Michel Forgues has worn many hats. For the last four years, writing has taken center stage in his life: L’instant chorégraphique, in the Possible magazine, a first book Une lettre de granite followed by couleur:corail, un greyhound afghan in the Moebius magazine (nominated for the “bande à Moebius” 2000 Award). A year ago, Michel obtained a camera. And now, it’s on with the Docuweb!

François Veillette / multimedia department manager

Holder of a bachelor’s degree in industrial design from l’Université de Montréal, François trained in London and collaborated on his final studies project with Trinôme where he still manages the multimedia department. He loves rock climbing, canoeing, swimming (almost everyday!). At work, he devises formats, calculates pixels, chooses colors, extracts television content which he then pummels, transforms, encodes, decodes, and codes again… In fact, this is just another way for him to practice rock climbing, canoeing and swimming. On the weekend, François chops down wood for fire in the winter…

Jonathan Boivin / Internet designer

Like François, Jonathan too encodes, decodes, compresses and decompresses. Above all however, he thrives on the web site aspect of the multimedia department. With lightning speed, Jonathan can process any kind of material - be it ideas, concepts or mere intuitions - which he then changes, materializes and digitalizes into images, graphics, interfaces or high speed resolutions fit for hard copies or cathode-ray screens. François and Jonathan, two old chums from St-Basile, will illuminate and animate your screen. They will make your speakers resonate with sounds of the room you are surfing in so you can experience the recreated atmospheres of that week’s stopover.

Jean-Christophe Monette / web site assistant designer

Jean-Christophe studied multimedia conception and creation at the André-Grasset College in Montreal. Also benefiting from a multimedia training course granted by the International Intern Program for Canadian Youth 2001-2002 of the ACPFT, our young recruit assists François and Jonathan. Jean-Christophe won the award for Best Multimedia Design at the 2001 Réflekto event. He repeated this exploit by winning the Gold MIM in the Young Creators/Creation category of the 2001 MIM. We wish him well on his journey with the crew.

Julie Riopel / editor

Graduated in Arts and Media Technology at the Jonquière C.E.G.E.P. in 1998, Julie Riopel has since then edited topics and promos for Deux filles le matin, Bec et museau broadcasted on TVA, topics for L’argent n’a pas de sexe at Canal Vie as well as two documentary series: C’est mathématiques II on the air of Canal Z and Vivre à deux II at Canal Vie. On PLEIN SUD, the Docuweb, she reassembles disconnected images which are all numerical echos of the various experiences that our travellers encounter. By melting words and images together, she gives an atmosphere and a rhythm to the Web.

Marie-Josée Barrette / production coordinator

French, Spanish, English, German, Marie-Josée loves languages. A former teacher in a small school in the Plateau Mont-Royal district, she had to bridge the gap between ten different nationalities rubbing shoulders in her classroom. Wanting to experience something else, she opted for a sabbatical year: she became a production coordinator, her first incursion in television. Travel plans on the horizon! “Languages, she says, are an opening onto the world and people”. Faced with the choice of a new language to learn, she hesitates: will it be Italian or Brazilian? What would you suggest?

Martine Chamberland / post-production coordinator

Martine is on the look-out for the precious cassettes the traveling crew sends over, cassettes without which we would not survive. «Martine, don’t you see anything coming?» PHEW! She just got them this morning. Martine is in charge of the coming and going of the cassettes and coordinates the schedules for image editing and sound mixing. She is the mother of a fifteen-month-old baby boy, Victor, whose picture is pinned to the panel that closes her office space. She is with Trinôme since 1999.