Nicolas is the festival director of the Montreal Festival du nouveau cinema which take place each year since 1971 in October in the heart of the beautiful city of Montreal.

A Montreal based fashion designer and professor at University of Quebec in Montreal, former head of Fashion, jewellery and accessories design Programme at HEAD-Genève, Ying Gao has achieved personal distinction through her numerous creative projects: six solo exhibitions in France, in Switzerland, in Canada, and more than one hundred group exhibitions around the world. Her varied creative work has enjoyed international media coverage: Time, Vogue, The New York Times, Dazed and Confused, Interni, ARTE. She is one of the “Fab 40: Canada” selected by Wallpaper magazine.

Laurence Poirier la photographe

Founder of Agence Canuel - Representing Gab Bois and Samuel Pasquier

I'm Claire Pazot, a French-born Art Director. After a time in Paris and Berlin, I have settled down in Montreal, and this is where I live and work. I love pure and simple design. I am always eager for new projects, all different and unique. But fun stays my main goal in life :)