Dead Cat
Strange Way of Life - Opening Program
What were Catherine and Louis thinking when they chose a cat with distinctive white spots? It would’ve been much easier to replace if they’d only picked the all-black one! Now, they’ll have to tell their daughter Sophie that Nugget is dead. Unless…
- Canada
- 2023, 12 min
- Director: Annie-Claude Caron, Danick Audet
- Director of photography: Shawn Pavlin
- Editor: Amelie Labreche
- Screenplay: Annie-Claude Caron, Danick Audet
- Music: Laurent Emmanuel Malo, Leandre Meilleur
- Sound: Francois Pinet-Forcier, Jean-Francois Sauve, Luc Boudrias
- Cast: Lilas-Rose Cantin, Leane Labreche-Dor, Pierre-Yves Cardina
- Art Director: Pierre-Olivier Cadieux
- Producer: Astrid Barrette Tessier, Sophie Valcourt, Fanny-Laure Malo, Annie-Claude Quirion
- Production: La Boite a Fanny
Annie-Claude Caron, Danick Audet
Both alumni of the University of Montreal, Danick Audet and Annie-Claude Caron have been working together on independent projects for the past ten years. Most notably, they worked on the documentary short Gino Bouleau (2019) for the Course des régions competition, which was selected for numerous festivals and won the Pierre Falardeau Award at the Prends ça court! gala. In 2023, they launched their latest short film, Dead Cat, produced by La Boîte à Fanny. They are currently working on their next short film, Petit Christ, and are writing their first feature film, Ugly.