THE TEAM

Kala Miya is a Rohingya from the village of Long Doon Foki Daung Nga Kuu Ya, in the Maung Ya region of Arakan State, in western Myanmar (formerly Burma). In 2012, violence against the Rohingya community forced him to leave his country and seek refuge in India.

From 2018 to 2021, Kala Miya lived in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, where he worked as a translator and teacher for non-governmental organizations. In search of better living conditions, he later left the camp for another country in Asia.

A key collaborator during the filming of Wandering: A Rohingya Story, he provided translation and conducted the interviews on location. His poetry, written in the world’s largest refugee camp, became a central element of the documentary’s narrative. His poems were also presented in the multidisciplinary exhibition Wandering: A Rohingya Story.

Biologists by training, Olivier Higgins and Mélanie Carrier are documentary filmmakers based in Québec City. Their artistic approach is driven by their curiosity about the world, their interest in human relationships and their desire to create encounters between cultures.

In 2006, they directed Asiemut, a documentary about their bicycle journey across Asia, which won 36 awards at international festivals. They then founded MÖ FILMS, an independent production company through which they develop committed and sensitive documentary works. Their feature film Québékoisie (2013), which explores the relationship between Quebecers and First Nations, received the Magnus-Isacsson Award at the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM).

In 2020, they directed Wandering: A Rohingya Story, a feature documentary that plunges into the heart of the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. The film won several awards, including Best Feature Documentary at the Canadian Screen Awards and three Iris Awards. In parallel, they designed a multidisciplinary exhibition presented at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec from 2020 to 2022.

At the crossroads of documentary film and immersive museum experiences, their work seeks to cast a human eye on major contemporary realities, giving a central place to the people they meet and to their stories.

For more information: mofilms.ca

Born in 1984, Renaud Philippe is an independent documentary photographer based in Québec City. His work focuses mainly on crisis situations, exclusion and exile, with particular attention to people forced to leave everything behind because of war, injustice or natural disasters.

His deeply humanist photographic approach examines inequality and human suffering. It gives an essential place to the encounter with the Other and to the bonds that grow out of it.

In February 2018, Renaud travelled to the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh for the first time to produce a photo report. His work and research helped inspire the filming of Wandering: A Rohingya Story. He returned to Kutupalong in October 2018 with Olivier Higgins, with whom he shared the cinematography of the documentary. His photographs were also at the heart of the multidisciplinary exhibition Wandering: A Rohingya Story.

For more information: renaudphilippe.com

Amélie Labrèche is an editor based in Montreal. After graduating in film production from Concordia University in 2007, she developed her interest in the art of editing by working on short films and music videos. At the same time, she gained experience as an assistant editor on many productions, including films by Xavier Dolan.

Since 2015, she has edited several fiction feature films, including Nadia, Butterfly by Pascal Plante, selected at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. She has also worked on documentaries, television series, short films and music videos.

A passionate cinephile, she wishes to contribute to profound and innovative works through the narrative and emotional power of editing.

Jérôme Cloutier is a Canadian colourist recognized for his work in film and television. He began his career as a Flame graphic artist before specializing in colour grading at a Montreal advertising agency. He then continued at MELS, where he has worked on numerous feature films and television series.

In 2012, he graded his first feature film, Whitewash, directed by Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais and photographed by André Turpin.

He went on to work with Xavier Dolan on the colour grading of several of his films, including Mommy, It’s Only the End of the World and Matthias & Maxime, the latter presented in competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

Pierre-Jules Audet has more than 30 years of experience in sound design, mixing and sound supervision. His career and his pursuit of excellence led him to head the sound department of MELS studios in Montreal.

His work is recognized by both the industry and the film community and has earned him numerous awards. He contributed to the sound design of Stephen Hopkins’ Race (2016), Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival (2016) and Philippe Lacôte’s Night of the Kings (2020).

A musician by training, Luc Boudrias has worked as a film mixer in Montreal since 1988. Over his career, he has mixed several hundred film and television productions, many of which were honoured for their sound at the Genie, Gemini, Gémeaux, Jutra and Iris awards, including C.R.A.Z.Y., Maurice Richard, Paul à Québec, La Bolduc and La Passion d’Augustine.

He has mixed many films, including Mafia Inc., Jeune Juliette, My Brother’s Wife, Mon cirque à moi, Wandering: A Rohingya Story by Mélanie Carrier and Olivier Higgins, Underground by Sophie Dupuis and The Guide to the Perfect Family by Ricardo Trogi.