Your Name Here (2015 film)
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| Directed by | B. P. Paquette |
| Written by | B. P. Paquette |
| Produced by | Jason Ross Jallet B. P. Paquette |
| Cinematography | Mathieu Séguin |
| Edited by | Ernest Riffe |
| Music by | Zachary Lamothe |
Production company | Nortario Films |
| Distributed by | Nortario Films |
Release date | Cinefest 2015 (105-minute work-in-progress version) |
Running time | 87 minutes (completed version; 2016) |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Your Name Here is a 2016 feature-length docufiction from Canada written and directed by B. P. Paquette and featuring dozens of amateur actors. The film examines the art and craft of movie acting, and the desire for movie stardom.[1]
Plot
Set in a movie theatre as a workshop for amateur actors, Your Name Here features various aspiring actors who reveal their true selves throughout the course of the film as they simultaneously reenact the timeless story first told in the Oscar-winning Hollywood classic A Star is Born (1937 film), wherein a young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of movie stardom, but achieves them only with the help of a tragic leading man whose best days are behind him.[2][3]
Production
In the fall of 2013, filmmaker B. P. Paquette gave a 3-day acting-on-screen workshop (titled, somewhat mischievously, "Adult Film Acting") in a movie theatre for the Sudbury Theatre Centre. [4] Working with a professional crew, Paquette shot over 90 hours of material [5][6] The film is a mashup (video) comprising roughly one-third portraits or snapshots of the aspiring thespians who appear in the film, one-third A Star is Born (1937 film) and one-third reenactments of scenes from the original Hollywood classic.[7][8]
Festival recognition
At 104 minutes, Your Name Here premiered as a work-in-progress at Cinefest in 2015.[9] The final version, completed in 2016, runs 87 minutes.
Theatrical release
Your Name Here will be released commercially in theatres across Canada in 2017.
See also
- Hello Cinema – a 1995 Iranian docufiction film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf that shows various everyday people being auditioned and explaining their reason for wanting to act in a film.
- Close-Up - a 1990 Iranian docufiction film directed by Abbas Kiarostami that recounts the story of the real-life trial of a man who impersonated film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, conning a family into believing they would star in his new film.
- Someone to Love - a 1987 pseudo-documentary directed by Henry Jaglom about a filmmaker who throws a Valentine's Day party at an old movie theater that is about to be demolished and then quizzes his guests on camera about their lives.
- Filming Othello – a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his Othello.
- F for Fake – the last major film completed by Orson Welles, who directed, co-wrote, and starred in the film, which is loosely a documentary that operates in several different genres and has been described as a kind of film essay.
- Docufiction
- List of docufiction films
- Metafilm
External links
References
- ^ http://cinefest.com/industry-portal/cinema-summit-2015-schedule
- ^ http://cinefest.com/industry-portal/cinema-summit-2015-schedule
- ^ http://www.thesudburystar.com/2015/09/19/sudbury-accent-the-peoples-festival
- ^ http://www.sudburytheatre.on.ca/learn-to-act/film-acting
- ^ http://www.thesudburystar.com/2015/09/19/sudbury-accent-the-peoples-festival
- ^ http://www.thesudburystar.com/2015/09/19/sudbury-accent-the-peoples-festival
- ^ http://www.northernlife.ca/news/lifestyle/2015/09/18-your-name-here-sudbury.aspx
- ^ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/cinefest-sudbury-acting-workshop-morphs-into-surprise-film-1.3228758
- ^ http://cinefest.com/industry-portal/cinema-summit-2015-schedule