Van Horne & Waverly (Documentary 45 mins), 2013.
Van Horne & Waverly is a 45min documentary on an artist neighbourhood in Montreal and how it is being impacted by gentrification.
- Documentary DP
- Video Editor - News
Montreal, QC, Canada
$200 - $500 / Day
Request QuoteGeneva Guérin is a co-founder and producer-director with Cinécoop. She is from Montreal and since 2010 has produced and directed two documentaries. ‘La Cantine Afghane’, (The Afghan Kitchen), a documentary on Afghan refugees in Paris, in 2012 and ‘Van Horne & Waverly’, a portrait of Montreal’s Mile End neighbourdhood and its artists, in 2013. In 2014 she produced and edited ‘We Call Them Intruders‘, a documentary on Canadian mining companies in Africa and how people in Canada unknowingly finance the operations. She is also currently co-writing and producing a feature fiction, ‘Flight Over Moonstrife‘. Her filmmaking aspirations span political documentary and video journalism. Geneva holds degrees in Political Science, Communication Studies, as well as in Architecture and Engineering. She has been making films along side her career as a green building consultant since 2003. Despite apparent differences, she finds perfect coherency in the capacity to exert influence in d
Van Horne & Waverly is a 45min documentary on an artist neighbourhood in Montreal and how it is being impacted by gentrification.
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