Anne Kmetyko
Isabel Kastrup
Axel Laroche
Stefan Verna
Éric Lafalaise
Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
Isabela Cardoso
Tiago Gerbasi
Babek Aliassa
Camila Novais
Jonathan Cortés Suárez
Guillermo López
Katherine Jerkovic
FRANCOIS RIHOUAY
Susana Fernández
Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt
Daniela Pinna
César Cubillán
Diana Goudrouffe
Ellen Tang
Abraham Lifshitz
Giulia Frati
Diego Briceño
Juan Andres Arango
Claudia Gama
Jesse Freeston
Babek Aliassa
Producer, Director, Writer
Bio
Babek Aliassa studied architecture in Paris, then
cinema at La Fémis. Soon after arriving in Canada in 1996, he
settled in Toronto and became involved in its French-speaking
artistic community for which he founded the Laboratoire d'art
(lelabo.ca), a media arts centre that quickly became an essential
link in the artistic creation in French Canada.
After directing a
short film and two documentaries, he moved to Montreal to make his
first feature film, Halal Butcher Shop. The theme of immigration is
central to his work and greatly influenced by the many times Babek
has moved in his life, from France to Iran and from English Canada to
Belarus, before settling down in Quebec.
Babek is passionate
about the right of artists from diverse origin and background to tell
their own stories within the Canadian and Quebec media industries. He
has served on the board of Diversité artistique Montréal (DAM) to
promote more inclusive representation on stage and screen.
Babek is also a
producer. His latest feature screenplay, Le ventre de Bassima, has
received institutional support and will be shot next winter (2022) in
Montreal. He has two daughters.