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  • MJ Tremblay
    Director
  • MJ Tremblay
    Writer
  • MJ Tremblay
    Producer
  • MJ Tremblay
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    DISPARUES
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 27 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 21, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • FOFS Film Festival
    Toronto
    Canada
    June 19, 2025
    North American Premiere
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
  • Humro Cinema Film Fest
    Pokhra
    Nepal
    January 4, 2026
    World Premiere
    FINALIST BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
  • Munich
    Germany
    March 15, 2026
    European Premiere
    OFFICIAL SELECTION
Distribution Information
  • Groupe Intervention Video (GIV)
    Distributor
    Country: Canada
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - MJ Tremblay

MJ Tremblay is Anishinaabe and originally from Montreal. It was the Jesuit priest Rolland Boyle of Ottawa who arranged for her to be placed with a family that would care for her. Her adoption was clandestine. MJ will never know her natural family. An adoptee from the 1950s. For several years, MJ took Abenaki language classes at Native Montreal. She is a film director, photographer, singer, songwriter, actress, painter.

Coming from a family of photographers, it was at the age of nine that MJ began her first steps in photography as much in shooting as in development in the dark room. MJ is passionate about repertory cinema. She studied communications and cinema at cégep Jean-de-Brébeuf. She has directed four short films in black and white: documentary, fiction and animation. She then studied film at Concordia University. She makes four short films with Wapikoni mobile and UQAM.

She also has a BAC in dramatic art at UQAM as well as studies in singing and piano at Cégep de St-Laurent.

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