Hi and welcome to the Team Deacons podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between

Roger and James Deacons, joined by Matt Wyman, starting from a

submitted question, and ending who knows where. We're also joined by guests on occasion. We're connecting through

Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear the audio. If you'd like to submit a

question please do so by emailing Pod POD at Roger deacons.com.

We're pleased today to have with us a director known to you all. He's a great friend which adds to the pleasure of working with him.

We've collaborated on three movies with him and have had a lot of fun along the way. A few of his titles are

Ansendi, Prisoners, Sakario, Arrival, and Blade Runner,

2049, and of course we're all impatiently awaiting his film, Dune. We're very happy to welcome a

magnificent director and a good friend, Deney Villeneuve.

Deney, thank you.

Thank you, James. That was a lovely introduction. Thank you very much.

Can you just start it out with telling us how, what your path was, how you ended up where you are today?

I will try to be brief. I studied film in Montreal. At the end of that study I felt that I learned how to put a camera on a tripod and to let on stage, but I felt the urge to bring the camera in the streets and outside and I did something that was very important in my studies which was to spend half a year around the world alone with a digital little camera

doing documentaries for a French branch of C. C. C. C. C.

Radio Canada. So I spent the seven months alone doing every week a short film of five minutes a little

a set with total freedom and those short film were air on the prime time on national TV. It was like a kind of

of little competition between eight people between 18 and 25 years old and I had

the chance to participate to that and that was very, very one of the greatest experience as a film student because I really learn how to approach a subject with a camera alone being in the intimacy with the camera and a subject

and to learn about light to and to learn about storytelling to about because the

documentary is a fantastic way to learn about how to structure a story.

What did you film? Can I interrupt there? What did you film on which subjects and what kind of documentary?

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