Sweet Sixteen
A FILM BY ALEXA-JEANNE DUBÉ
Feature Film – Quebec – 2023 – 13 min
Color | French with English subtitles | 16:9 | 5.1
SYNOPSIS
Sweet Sixteen presents eight 16 year old girls that unveil themselves through 8 bittersweet monologues. All highlighted in a evocative and poetic setting, the characters deliver on different themes; self-image, eating disorders, anxiety, their first love, their first kiss, friendship, sorority, sex, rape, incest, social media, social and political revolts. Constructed as a symphony form, the piece of work goes through four movements and is musically supported. The strong visual identity forces the movie to define itself somewhere between full feature film and object of art. Sweet Sixteen is a cinematographic adaptation done by Alexa-Jeanne Dubé from the play of the same name written in 2018 by the late Suzie Bastien.
Cast
Julie Boissonneault, Pénélope Ducharme, Laurence Trudelle, Charlène Beaubien, Roxane Lavoie, Doriane Lens-Pitt, Melania Balmaceda-Venegas, Marie Reid.
Crew
DIRECTOR : Alexa-Jeanne Dubé
WRITER : Film adaptation of the play Sucré Seize by Suzie Bastien.
PRODUCERS : Luce Pelletier (Théâtre de l’Opsis)
CINEMATOGRAPHY : Emili Mercier
PRODUCTION DESIGN : Alexa-Jeanne Dubé
SOUND DESIGN : Gael Poisson-Lemay
EDITING : Emma Bertin
MUSIC : Hologramme, Guillaume Bourque et Eric Shaw
DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY
Alexa-Jeanne is first and foremost a comedian. We’ve appreciated her performance in the tv series Faits divers, l’Échappée, Larry, Après, la Faille and much more. In 2015, the actress was nominated at the Prix Gémeaux in the best female performance for an original series produced for digital media for her role in Féminin/Féminin. The artist started directing in 2016 with her first short film YES BUT NO THANKS and has continued her path with more productions like Joutel (2021), BKS (2020) and Scopique (2017) that have all been presented in multiple festivals around the world and have each received a few prizes. In addition, her last two short films were nominated for the Gala Québec Cinéma in the category of the Best Drama Short Film. Lastly, Alexa-Jeanne is also the initiator and artistic director for the NICE TRY- belessai nights presented at Usine C since 2015, a must-see quarterly gathering of spontaneous and festive creation.
FILMOGRAPHY
JOUTEL I 2021
SDR I 2020
SCOPIQUE I 2017
OUI MAIS NON I 2016
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Raindance, 2023
Cinemania, 2023