Waitress Wanted Press Kit

©2007 Les Productions Serveuses Demandées Inc.

PARK EX PICTURES presents

WAITRESSES WANTED

(O.V. SERVEUSES DEMANDÉES)

Press Kit

A Film by GUYLAINE DIONNE

Produced by

KEVIN TIERNEY

Starring CLARA FUREY

and JANAINA SUAUDEAU

Special Appearances by ANNE DORVAL

and COLM FEORE


Produced with the Participation of

SODEC Société de développement des entreprises culturelles – Québec

Radio Canada Télévision

Super Écran

Société de développement des entreprises culturelles Film and Television Tax Credit

The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit

Press Relations

Isabella Salas

Park Ex Pictures tél. : (514) 933-4133 fax : (514) 933-3199

e-mail : [email protected]


CAST

Milagro.................................................................................................CLARA FUREY

Priscilla..................................................................................JANAINA SUAUDEAU

Johanne..............................................................................................ANNE DORVAL

Sergeant Connor...................................................................................COLM FEORE

Chloé.........................................................................MARIE-ÈVE BEAUREGARD


CREW

Written and Directed by............................................................GUYLAINE DIONNE

Producer...........................................................................................KEVIN TIERNEY

Production Manager....................................................................PIERRE LABERGE

First Assistant Director................................................................ÉRIC PARENTEAU

Director of photography...............................NATHALIE MOLIAVKO-VISOTZKY

Production Designer................................................................PATRICIA CHRISTIE

Costume Designer..............................................FRANCESCA CHAMBERLAND

Casting................................................................................................ROSINA BUCCI Music by...........................................................................MARTHA WAINWRIGHT

Editors...................................................................................................AUBE FOGLIA DENIS PAPILLON

Best Boy...........................................................................................NORMAND VIAU

Key Grip.....................................................................................YANKA PELLETIER

Makeup ..............................................................................................DIANE SIMARD

Hair Stylist..................................................................................MARTIN LAPOINTE

Post-Production Supervisor.....................................................PIERRE THÉRIAULT

Sound Designer...................................................................SYLVAIN BELLEMARE

Sound Mixer...................................................................CLAUDE HAZANAVICIUS

Re-Recording Mixer...........................................................................LOUIS GIGNAC


CAST

CLARA FUREY | Milagro Clara Furey is a graduate of Montreal’s Ateliers de danse moderne, and studied piano at the Conservatoire Municipal de Paris. She was introduced to film audiences in 2004 in Carole Laure’s CQ2. In 2005, Clara toured with the David Pressault Danse company, performing They Won’t Lie Down. The following year Clara danced in the production Lost Pidgeons at the Studio du Monument national in Montreal, and participated in the show Poésies, sandwichs et autres soirs qui penchent, conceived and directed by Loui Mauffette and presented during the International Festival of Literature in Montreal.

JANAINA SUADEAU | Priscilla Serveuses demandées is Janaina’s feature film debut. Originally from Brazil and now residing in Paris, Janaina has been acting for nearly ten years, playing a multitude of parts for the stage in São Paulo (Le Mariage de Figaro by Beaumarchais, Rasto Atrás by Jorge Andrade and Ensaio sobre a Cegueira by José Saramago). Since 2004, Janaina has been a student of the prestigious Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique in Paris, where she has taken on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Sarraute’s Le Mensonge and Ghost, written by Gildas Milin.

ANNE DORVAL | Johanne In a career than spans twenty years, Anne has performed in nearly thirty theatrical productions, twenty television series and several films. Her work for the small screen includes L'or et le papier, Chambres en ville, Virginie, Emma and Grande Ourse. Among her more recent theatrical productions are Juste la fin du monde (Espace GO), Les fourberies de Scapin (Théâtre du Rideau Vert), Électre (Espace GO), Le mariage de Figaro (Théâtre du Rideau Vert), Oreste - The Reality show (Espace GO) and Variations sur un temps (Juste pour rire). Equally proficient in comedy as she is in tragedy, Anne co-starred with Marc Labrèche in the satirical series Le cœur a ses raisons and Claude Meunier’s Détect inc. She received a Best Supporting Actress Jutra nomination for her role in the feature film The Secret Life of Happy People.


CAST (cont’)

COLM FEORE | Sargeant Connor Colm Feore first came to prominence due Straford Festival of Canada, for which he performed nearly all of Shakespeare’s main characters, including Richard III, Iago, Romeo and Hamlet. On the big screen, he joined the cast of Chicago (Oscar winner for Best Film of 2003), as well as The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Insider and Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Genie winner for Best Film of 1993). Colm Feore has delivered standout performances on the movies for television Trudeau, Nuremburg and Storm of the Century, and the series The West Wing and Boston Public. Recently, he co-starred in the Broadway production of Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington; he also formed one half of the Bon Cop Bad Cop duo alongside Patrick Huard, the highest-grossing Canadian film in domestic box office history.

MARIE-EVE BEAUREGARD | Chloé This nine-year-old actress has already accumulated several years’ experience in film and television. In 2005 she portrayed the seven-year-old incarnation of Marie-Jeanne in Aurore; she was also part of the cast of television’s Rumeurs. Marie-Eve has also participated in advertisements for Tim Hortons, Rogers and Volvo, amongst others.


CREW

GUYLAINE DIONNE | Writer and Director Guylaine Dionne has been working in film and television for fifteen-plus years, both in fiction as well as in documentary. She has directed several projects, such as the short film Les Frissons d’Agathe, and Les rêves secrets des Tarahumaras, which was nominated for a Gémeaux as Best Documentary Series. She oversaw the production of Amérique 500 in ten countries all over the Americas, which lead to a Gémeaux nomination for Best Research and a Gémeaux award for Best Documentary Series. Her first feature-length fiction film, Les Fantômes des Trois Madeleine, premiered at the Director’s Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival in 2000, and went on to play festivals all over Europe, and North and South America. Her 2004 docu-drama Mary Shelley won the Lanterna Magica award for best documentary in Tours, during the Festival l’Encre à l’écran. Guylaine was the recipient of the 2006 Don Haig Award in celebration of her work as a creator both in fiction and in documentary. She studied film at Concordia University, now known as the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, where she has taught Film Production since 2000. She also has a D.E.A. in film from the University of Strasbourg.

KEVIN TIERNEY | Producer Kevin Tierney is the producer and co-writer of Bon Cop Bad Cop, the first ever bilingual film made in Canada, and the highest grossing Canadian movie in domestic box office history. Bon Cop Bad Cop won the Genie Award for Best Film of 2006. His television productions have been nominated for a total of 11 Emmys and 12 Geminis. In 1993 he produced the documentary Pierre Elliott Trudeau Memoirs with Rock Demers, Gémeaux winner for Best Documentary. Among his other productions are the movies for television Choice: The Henry Morgentaler Story, Varian’s War, and the mini-series More Tales of the City, P.T. Barnum and Bonanno: A Godfather’s Story, as well as the feature film Twist, written and directed by his son Jacob Tierney. In 2005 he produced the TV movie One Dead Indian, which received nods for Best Screenplay and Best Director at the 2006 Gemini Awards.

NATHALIE MOLIAVKO-VISOTZKY | Director of Photography Nathalie Moliavko-Visotzky has shot several films for the big screen and for television, including De ma fenêtre sans maison, La Lune viendra d’elle même and Guylaine Dionne’s Les Fantômes des trois Madeleine. Her documentary work includes Danser Perreault, Pellan : La femme désirée and Le Violon sur la toile. Nathalie has also headed the second-unit cinematography on the feature films Silk, Les Invasions barbares and Eye of the Beholder. Her work as camera operator can be seen on the television productions Bunker, Omerta I and II, P.T. Barnum and Hiroshima.


CREW (cont’)

PATRICIA CHRISTIE | Production Designer Patricia has more than fifteen years’ experience working in film. Her 1990 debut coincided with Arto Paramagian’s feature directorial debut, Because Why. Other credits include Looking for Leonard directed by Matt Bissonnette and Steve Clark, La Beauté de Pandore directed by Charles Binamé, and Idole instantanée directed by Yves Desgagnés. Émile Gaudreault’s Mambo Italiano earned her a Jutra nomination for Best Art Direction in 2004, and she recently reteamed with the filmmaker for the upcoming Surviving my Mother. Serveuses demandées is the third collaboration between Patricia and director Guylaine Dionne, following Les Fantômes des trois Madeleine et Mary Shelley. Outside of film, Patricia has collaborated on architectural projects with architect/ designer Johnson Chou. Her Toronto art gallery, Archive Inc., just celebrated its tenth anniversary. FRANCESCA CHAMBERLAND | Costume Designer Francesca will soon celebrate her fifteenth year designing costumes for film and television. Her collaborations with director Roger Cantin include Matusalem, Matulasem II : le dernier des Beauchesne, La vengeance de la femme en noir, and La forteresse suspendue. Another of her frequent collaborators is director Érik Canuel, for whom she has designed the costumes for his Imax film Hemingway: A Portrait, and his feature films Nez Rouge, Le Dernier tunnel, Le Survenant and Bon Cop Bad Cop. Her work can also be seen in the feature films La mystérieuse Mademoiselle C, Mambo Italiano and Le Marais, as well as La Peau blanche, Aurore and Idole instantanée. Her work for television includes Harmonium, Smash and Le Négociateur.

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT | Music Martha is the daughter of folk legends Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle and sister of acclaimed singer songwriter Rufus Wainwright. She released a self-titled EP as well as a four-song EP called Factory in 2002. In February 2005 Wainwright released an EP called Bloody Motherfu*king As*hole, followed by the eponymous Martha Wainwright in April to great critical and commercial acclaim. Martha has also contributed to albums by Dan Bern, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, Snow Patrol and Teddy Thompson among others. Martha also took a turn performing on film in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator starring Leonardo DiCaprio and contributed two songs to the soundtrack of American independent film P.S. starring Laura Linney and directed by Dylan Kidd. Martha joined her brother on his fall 2004 UK dates to rapt audiences and has also supported artists such as Cyndi Lauper and Van Morrison, Neko Case, Pete Townshend and Sean Lennon.


QUOTES

“I really enjoy how the characters of Milagro and Priscilla could have gone off and had a completely different life were it not for a question of money, or in Priscilla’s case, a visa to enable her to stay in Quebec, and how they enter this other world, which is both seedy and seductive at the same time.”

-Janaina Suaudeau, “Priscilla”

“I was convinced I wanted to do (Serveuses demandées) as soon as I finished reading (the screenplay).”

-Colm Feore, “Sergeant Connor”

“The Quebecois people are very warm. I had heard so much to that effect, but I didn’t quite believe it. It was only upon arriving that I learned that they are a very welcoming people. (...) I found a bit of Brazilian hospitality in Quebec, and it was very refreshing.”

-Janaina Suaudeau

“My character the policeman is not black and white, he has just enough gray. He’s a bit ambiguous. We’re not quite sure what to think about him, we want more information. That makes it interesting for an actor.”

-Colm Feore,

“I believe Johanne, Milagro and Chloé are all shades of what any of them was or could become, which is an extremely interesting element of the screenplay. The fact that Johanne is a 40-year-old grandmother, the legal ward of her 8-year-old granddaughter, confronts her with a reality, a past and a future that she can’t deny. Milagro’s choices are probably a direct consequence of that. This is a fractured family in which crucial pieces are missing, notably the presence of a man.”

-Anne Dorval, “Johanne”,

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