LUC MONTPELLIER - Cinematographer

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Cinematographer Luc Montpellier (WOMEN TALKING, AWAY FROM HER, AUTUMN HEARTS) joins us on this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast. Hailing from rural Canada, Luc reflects on his childhood growing up with a deep love for film and later knuckling down to get into film school, both by building his portfolio and threatening the school with an endless stream of applications until his acceptance. We learn how the Canadian government supports its country’s film industry and how that support has evolved over time, and we consider the different pathways for young filmmakers to gain experience in both Canada and the United Sates. We later mine the fine details of Luc’s approach to shooting the deceptively “simple” WOMEN TALKING and how he and director Sarah Polley identified when and how to visually express the women’s story and their evolving characters. And, towards the end, Luc thanks us for responding to his email years ago following a difficult professional experience.

Recommended Viewing: WOMEN TALKING

This episode is sponsored by Aputure

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of
0:08.8	informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest. We never know where the conversation
0:15.6	will take us so listen in and see where it goes. This episode is sponsored by Aperture, a company with a global footprint spanning four continents.
0:28.0	Aperture is a driving force in LED cinema technology, renowned for their cutting edge lighting and
0:35.1	software solutions.
0:37.0	focused on enabling filmmakers to achieve their creative vision,
0:41.0	they've built a lighting ecosystem of over 20 different fixtures that can
0:45.8	be controlled wirelessly through their software platform, CITES Link.
0:50.3	Today we're speaking with the cinematop. link.
0:53.4	Today we're speaking with the cinematographer.
0:55.8	His credits include Women Talking, Percy versus Goliath, and away from her.
1:01.5	We're pleased to welcome Luke Montpellier with us today. Thank you Luke for doing this.
1:06.4	Great nice to see my absolute pleasure. Happy to be here.
1:10.8	We'd like to start with our first normal question, which is how did you get to where you are today?
1:17.0	Were you always visual as a kid? Were you always looking through a lens basically? Or did you go down another path and then find this?
1:25.8	No, that's an interesting question for me. I was not one of those kids that had a
1:31.3	Superate camera when he was young and I you know you hear this story a lot of people
1:36.4	grabbing this at a young age I'm from a small very very small mining town in the
1:42.3	northern part of the province in Ontario.
1:45.1	And obviously filmmaking was not something that people thought of as a career.
1:51.0	But it was always something, I would always go see films that was kind of my escape, because I was never really happy with where I was, something just inside of me didn't really click in, you know, there's a very specific box that you have to fit in sometimes.
2:06.2	It's not just this small town, but a lot of small towns.
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