Holder
of a B.A. in Communication - Cinema profile, including one-and-a-half
year of motion picture production with the filmmaker André Mélançon, Jean-Pierre Piché has
worked over the past twenty years
on more than a dozen films as a producer,
writer, translator, director and editor. During these years he worked
for some production companies including Cinepix, Les Ateliers audiovisuels du
Québec (owned by the internationally renowned filmmaker Arthur Lamothe) and
the Quebec national television Télé-Québec.
Jean-Pierre has also worked as
an independent filmmaker. As such he was producer, director,
co-writer and editor of Sadhana - Back to the Source, a feature
length documentary filmed in India that was released theatrical in both English and French across Canada and the United States. Sadhana was also
shown in French on Radio-Canada (CBC) television as a three part series and in
English on Vision TV channel. It has also been officially selected and shown at the Houston Film
Festival and the International Film Festivals of Lille (France) and Frieburg
(Germany). Jean-Pierre was also co-producer, co-director and editor of Le
Cauchemar climatisé (documentary on life in jail) which was shown on Radio-Canada (CBC).
Jean-Pierre is now working
on a half hour pilot for a documentary series on the spiritual
leaders of our time. The first film titled Saccidananda - a Meeting
Place will focus on the life and work
of Father Bede Griffiths, a Christian monk
who lived in India and tried to
discover the unifying forces of all religions. Besides that, he recently
finished writing in French the screenplay of a feature film titled Le
Sang de la Liberté, a feature-length drama based on the story of a
Canadian lay missionary who went to work with the
Mayan Indians of Guatemala in the late 1970s and was killed in 1981 in a shoot-out between
the Guatemalan army and the Indian guerilla force which he was
supporting. The screenplay reached the semi-final of the L.A. international
writing contest "WriteMovies" although it was presented in French
(translation in process). Until now, Jean-Pierre has received three
Canada Council grants for his work.
Holder
of a B.A. in Communication - Cinema profile, including one-and-a-half
year of motion picture production with the filmmaker André Mélançon, Jean-Pierre Piché has
worked over the past twenty years
on more than a dozen films as a producer,
writer, translator, director and editor. During these years he worked
for some production companies including Cinepix, Les Ateliers audiovisuels du
Québec (owned by the internationally renowned filmmaker Arthur Lamothe) and
the Quebec national television Télé-Québec.
was producer, director,
co-writer and editor of Sadhana - Back to the Source, a feature
length documentary filmed in India that was released theatrical in both English and French across Canada and the United States. Sadhana was also
shown in French on Radio-Canada (CBC) television as a three part series and in
English on Vision TV channel. It has also been officially selected and shown at the Houston Film
Festival and the International Film Festivals of Lille (France) and Frieburg
(Germany). Jean-Pierre was also co-producer, co-director and editor of Le
Cauchemar climatisé (documentary on life in jail) which was shown on Radio-Canada (CBC).
who lived in India and tried to
discover the unifying forces of all religions. Besides that, he recently
finished writing in French the screenplay of a feature film titled Le
Sang de la Liberté, a feature-length drama based on the story of a
Canadian lay missionary who went to work with the
Mayan Indians of Guatemala in the late 1970s and was killed in 1981 in a shoot-out between
the Guatemalan army and the Indian guerilla force which he was
supporting. The screenplay reached the semi-final of the L.A. international
writing contest "WriteMovies" although it was presented in French
(translation in process). Until now, Jean-Pierre has received three
Canada Council grants for his work. 