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Remembering Romeo

An innovative, hybrid animated documentary about an Alaskan wolf who charmed a village and befriended the world.

Northern lights shine in a urban apartment's bedroom, transforming it into a magically illuminated habitat. Romeo, a seducing Alaskan wolf, is reanimated by August's lantern, a little boy with a vast imagination ...Remembering Romeo is an autobiographical visual tale celebrating interspecies friendship and commemorating a sacred animal's life and journey.

  • Marjorie Lemay
    Director
  • Marjorie Lemay
    Writer
  • Nick Kuepfer
    Music
  • Marjorie Lemay
    Animation
  • Auguste Gutierrez-Lemay
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Se souvenir de Romeo
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, experimental, environmental
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes 40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 12, 2017
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    United States, Canada, United States
  • Language:
    English, French
  • Shooting Format:
    super 8 and 16 mm, full HD, 2K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Concordia University, Quebec, CANADA
  • Les Percéides, festival international de cinéma et d'art
    Gaspé, (Québec)
    Canada
    August 24, 2017
    North American
  • Non Stop Animacio Barcelona
    Barcelona
    Spain
    March 24, 2018
    Europe
  • Otherwise Film Festival
    San Diego
    United States
    November 17, 2024
  • Berlin Indie Film Festival
    Berlin
    Germany
    March 25, 2025
  • HECare Film Festival (Human-Environment Care Film Festival HECFF)
    Toronto
    Canada
    September 26, 2024
  • International Indie Film and Screenplay Festival
    Paris...location tbf
    France
    December 4, 2025
    Finalist Best Short Film
Director Biography - Marjorie Lemay

Wildlife lover, painter, landscaping designer and filmmaker working and living in Montreal

Taming and/or exulting my inner wilderness one frame at the time since 2009 while studying Animation Film at Concordia University, Canada. Happily integrating my painting and drawing practice (developed since 1996) into the realm of the moving images, recklessly orchestrating light, movement and sound and freely exploring on-specific sites cinematographic projects.

MFA student in Film Production from September 2014-2018 at Concordia University, Canada and recipient of the Mechtronix Graduate Fellowship for Innovative Excellence in Visual Arts, The Henry P. and Thomas R. Schreiner National Film Board of Canada Production/Research Grant in Documentary and The Grant Munro Graduate Scholarship for Film Production. I am exploring different cinematic approaches to celebrate nonhuman life forms. My crafted with love and dedication short audiovisual pieces are shown in art events and film festivals in Canada and abroad.


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Director Statement

WHAT I DO

Sharing my fascination for the otherness, the unexpected and the surprising found and discovered in the wilderness or isolated habitats. I am using different cinematographic narrative approaches to work on a renewed view on Nature and the idea of the Wild. Wandering and trying to keep a personal, playful and naive approach to these discoveries, without the limitations surrounding rational scientific knowledge, and outside, also, but reflexing on, the natural science genre of documentation.

Reflexing on the state of things related to environment, human/animals interconnections, co-habitation and co-evolution, I am Interacting and collaborating with communities in regard to these issues in order to emulate interspecies friendship and respect of the Living.

Exploring techniques that has a certain “obsolete” tag on them and using them in a renewed mode (collagraphie, paint on glass animation, polaroid emulsion transfer, super 8mm and 16mm hand processed films, hand drawing animation on paper, etc.)
I am searching for extreme spontaneity –rawness and the “feel of the matter” but in the same time, control, dedication and mannerism concerning work flow details I am creating for myself. I am exploring presentation modes involving multiplication of images and layering, intertwining of medias.