Affiliée communautaire
Rebecca Lessard is an emerging film and mediamaker born and raised in Tio’tia:ke / Montreal, with a BA in Communication Studies from Concordia University. Her most recent credits as a film editor includes the feature documentaries So Surreal: Behind the Masks (Official Selection TIFF, VIFF) and RED FEVER (Hot Docs Audience Top 20), which she co-produced as well as edited, and 2 seasons of the docuseries GESPE’GEWA’GI: The Last Land (APTN). Rebecca also served as the visual researcher for those projects as well as RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World, the Sundance and CSA-winning documentary feature from Rezolution Pictures.
Previously, she co-facilitated digital storytelling workshops with refugee youth and made other contributions to the COHDS project Mapping Memories: Participatory Media, Place-based Stories & Refugee Youth, and has worked on film and media creation projects with Inuit youth in Nunavik as well as with other Indigenous communities in Quebec with Wapikoni Mobile.
Roots & Recipes
Food brings us together; one shared plate can produce countless moments and memories. The Roots & Recipes project aims to collect recipes and kitchen stories from first and second generation immigrants in Montreal in an inter-generational video series, Dishing Up the Past, and produces engaging programming that explores Jewish and old-world food traditions.
