THE MUSIC LESSON

a film by Peter Venne

2021 - Québec - Drama

Seb, mariachi musician by night and guitar teacher by day, is by all accounts a failed artist. Like a ghost wandering through his own life, Seb follows outside expectations and comically drifts further away from his dream of becoming a songwriter.  A chance friendship with a budding musician and self- proclaimed 'sabotage' artist inspires him to reflect on his life and confront his fears.

CAST

Sébastien Arribas, Rosalie Fortier, Normand Daoust, Eric K. Boulianne, Jose Luis Figueroa

CREW

DIRECTION : Peter Venne / PRODUCTION : Jean-Sébastien Beaudoin Gagnon / DIRECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY : François Messier-Rheault / ART DIRECTION : Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers / SOUND : Jean-Sébastien Beaudoin Gagnon / EDITING : Sophie Farkas-Bolla / ÉTALONNAGE : Jean-François Robichaud / SOUND DESIGN : Samuel Gagnon-Thibodeau / SOUND MIX : Stéphane Bergeron / MUSIC : Sébastien Arribas - Maxime Carpentier - Peter Venne

FESTIVALS

• Talent Tout Court - Festival du court-métrage de Clermont-Ferrand (2021)

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• IN THE PALACE International Short film Festival (2021) *Première Mondiale

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• 17e Gala Prends ça court! (2021)

🏆 Prix Vans "of the wall"

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• Brooklyn International Film Festival (2021)

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• Festival CINEMANIA (2021)

PETER VENNE

Peter Venne is a Quebec filmmaker living in Montreal.  After working for the past decade as a film composer for such directors as Meryam Joobeur, Matthew Rankin and Rémi St-Michel, he wrote and directed his debut short The Music Lesson about a failed musician torn between outside expectations and his own aspirations as an artist. 

FILMOGRAPHIE