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THE TEAM
Founded in May 2002 by Guylaine Maroist and Éric Ruel, Productions de la ruelle soon made its mark with the documentary Singing to Drown Out the Sea (Radio-Canada, Bravo). This first film won critical acclaim in Quebec and France, and earned three nominations at the 2004 Gémeaux Awards Gala.
Building on this success, Maroist and Ruel produced the shock documentary Bombes à retardement / Time Bombs (Canal D, Global) which garnered the prestigious Gold Ribbon Award for Best Documentary of the Year from the Canadian Association of Broadcasters.
Selected at the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) (2007), the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois (2008) and the Palm Beach International Film Festival (2008), among others, this film spurred the Canadian government to announce a compensation package for atomic veterans and their families. It also won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the New York International Independent Film Festival in 2008.
In 2009, the dynamic duo produced their first TV series—the 10-episode Les Wizz du showbizz—which was a big hit on MusiMax.
In fall 2010, they launched the series My Memory's on a Roll (12 episodes), which aired on Historia. Based on home movies, the series rapidly became a favourite among Quebec viewers.
More than a TV series, My Memory's on a Roll is a legacy project, aimed at preserving the home movies of Quebec families from the 1920s to the 1980s.
In tandem with Turbulent Media and Historia, Productions de la ruelle created a vast website featuring close to 10,000 home movies and 80 webisodes, along with hundreds of articles and dozens of personal accounts by Quebec personalities.
Productions de la ruelle also developed an educational section for elementary and high school students and teachers, which got a nod from Japan's national public broadcaster (NHK) and was nominated in the youth category of the Japan Prize International Educational Program Contest in 2010.
Since it hit the airwaves in 2010, My Memory's on a Roll has won numerous awards, including the Boomerang Grand Prize 2009 in the media category. The series was also selected in five categories at the Gémeaux Awards Gala (2010), at the Banff World Media Festival (2010), and at the NUMIX Gala (2010–11) in the convergent media category.
Maroist and Ruel are currently producing a feature-length documentary for Canal D and a medium-length documentary for Télé-Québec, due for release in 2012.
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Producer / Scriptwriter
With degrees in law, film studies and musicology from the Université de Montréal, Guylaine Maroist is a journalist (Le Devoir) and radio/TV commentator (Radio-Canada and MusiMax) who has written and directed a number of TV documentaries on the history of popular music in Quebec (including over 70 Musicographies). As a researcher, she has collaborated on various projects, including the special program 50 ans de chansons (Zone Libre, Radio-Canada).
As an executive producer and scriptwriter, she worked on the TV biography of René Angélil (MusiMax), which was a huge success and was nominated for a Gémeaux Award in 2007.
Maroist is not only fascinated by visual archives but, a musician in her own right (Les Jaguars), she also has a keen interest in audio archives. Between 1996 and 2004, she searched the catalogues of several record companies (Universal, BMG, Disques Mérite, Musicor) and worked on more than 100 record compilations.
For the Festival coup de cœur francophone, she staged two shows: Chasse, pêche et rock 'n' roll (a tribute to Serge Deyglun) and Outrage aux Sinners, which made Le Devoir's top 10 shows of 2002 list.
As a journalist, she has also made incursions into the political and social spheres, notably interviewing Yasser Arafat for the daily La Presse in 1996.
She studied scriptwriting with Marcel Sabourin (Université de Montréal) and at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) in New York.
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Producer / Director
Éric Ruel initially got noticed for his editing skills while working for the National Film Board and Radio-Canada. He was involved in numerous documentary series, including Transit (NFB), entirely created from the NFB archives, which won the Award of Excellence at the AMTEC Media Festival in 2000.
Passionate about all types of archival material, he immediately saw the immense potential when journalist Sylvain Cormier showed him his collection of Super 8 and 16 mm films in 2004. Ruel set about transferring the films to digital and, in collaboration with Guylaine Maroist, Sylvain Cormier, Daniel Dupré and Olivier Savignet, created a documentary series.
Ruel has also created several applications for home movies, including a website (in collaboration with Marc Beaudet at Turbulent) and an educational program for high school students.
Ruel now wants to make this film bank accessible to elderly people, particularly those afflicted with Alzheimer's disease, whose memories could be stirred by the movies.
Preserving home movies has become a true mission for him.
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Mutlimedia Producer & Art Director
Maud St-Onge worked over 15 years in advertising agencies befor lunching is own compagny. Any project is a good challenge; art direction, communication's strategy, branding, marketing, website, printing of any kind (press, flyer, magazine, business), interactive or printing advertising, presentation and multimedia projection, and much more.
Some of her clients and partners : Transcontinental Interactif, les Rôtisseries St-Hubert, Complexes funéraires Yves Légaré, Club Piscine, la Corporation de la Salle André-Mathieu, Pâtisserie St-Martin, Promenades Drummondville, Fabelta, Canadian Academy of Homeopathy, Services Informatiques SYM, Banque Nationale, Spa Capillaire EGO, Julie Létourneux (artiste jazz), Groupe Maurice, Androïde, APOM, etc. Elle collabore aux projets de Productions de la ruelle à titre de productrice multimédia depuis 2002.
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Réalisatrice
Marie-Michèle a travaillé à titre de réalisatrice de plus d’une trentaine d’épisodes de l’Index Québécois, série phare à Musimax. Au cours des années, elle a aussi mis ses connaissances au service de plusieurs émissions dont Musicographie, On s’en va à Granby, MusiMission, Génération 90, Génération 2000, Les années et Les Wizz du showbizz. Pour la série J’ai la mémoire qui tourne, Marie-Michèle a réalisé plus de 50 webépisodes en plus de travaillé comme rédactrice-conceptrice du site web qui s’est vu remettre le Grand Prix Boomerang en plus d’être en nomination au Gala des prix Numix et au Festival International de WebTV de La Rochelle.
Dîplomée du cégep de Jonquière en Arts et technologies des médias, Marie-Michèle poursuit parallèlement des études en photographie.
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Monteur
Après des études en cinéma et en communication, Martin Gagnon a travaillé à titre de monteur à Musimax sur plus de sept musicographies dont celle de René Angélil, fort médiatisée et finaliste aux Prix Gémeaux 2007 dans la catégorie Meilleure biographie ou portrait.
À TVA, il a particié au montage de la deuxième saison de l'émission de variétés On n'a pas toute la soirée en prolongation, animée par Éric Salvail. Il a ensuite principalement travaillé en documentaire et a signé le montage des biographies Ce n'était qu'un rêve, la vie de Maman Dion (TVA) et Il était une fois Guy Lafleur. Ce DVD a connu un vif succès dès sa sortie. Toujours en documentaire, il a participé à la série What's that about 3, diffusée à Discovery Channel. Au fil des ans, il a oeuvré comme monteur sur plusieurs séries (Culture choc, 109, Club social, Le code Chastenay) et a conçu le design graphique de plusieurs ouvertures de séries sportives pour RDS et TSN.
Plus récemment, Martin Gagnon a participé au montage de la première et la deuxième saison de la série documentaire J'ai la mémoire qui tourne. Celle-ci est en nomination dans cinq catégories aux Prix Gémeaux 2010, dont Meilleur montage pour une série documentaire ou série d'affaires publiques. En 2010, il travaillera sur les documentaires Mutation (Télé-Québec).
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