Sarah Moustakim (she/her)
Executive Director
Head of Sales
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Sarah grew up in Morocco and later moved to Paris to study literature and cinema, earning a master's degree in film heritage between Paris and New York. She then worked in cultural diplomacy at the French Institute in Paris, promoting French and European cinema worldwide. In 2022, she arrived in Montreal and joined the distribution company h264 as sales manager. Driven by her passion to promote underrepresented cinematographies, she served as a programmer at the Online African Film Festival in Paris and at the MISAFF in Toronto. At Travelling, she continues to pursue her professional mission: connecting films with their audience.
Sarah is unable to go a day without leaving home : whether it's snowing, there are freshly baked cookies at home, or the new season of "The Bear" has just been released, nothing stops her!
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Tam Dan Vu (she/her)
Artistic Director
Head of Communications
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With a BA in Cultural and Media Production Strategies, Tam is a cinephile who soughts to bridge film to its audience. In 2013, she falls in love with short film at Québec Cinéma. Through an internship at H264, she's invited to contribute to the genesis of Plein(s) Écran(s) - the world’s 1st film festival on Facebook - where she evolves as coordinator, communications director and programmer. Leveraging her creativity in digital marketing, she oversees the social media campaigns for the Oscar© race of three shorts that will get nominated - Fauve, Marguerite and Brotherhood. Meanwhile, she works in communications at Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal for over two years. In 2020, she joins Travelling as Artistic Director and Head of Communications...
In addition to short film, Tam is developing a practice as a multidisciplinary artist and is obsessed with The Bachelor.
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Pierre is a sound technician, musician and self-taught artist based in Trois-Rivières and has been working in the cultural event industry for almost 15 years. Working as a distribution coordinator at Travelling since 2013, Pierre ensures the smooth running of Travelling short films’ journeys in festivals and film theatres.
In his spare time, Pierre takes care of his garden and he is active in several strange music bands.
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Louise Morel holds a master's degree in cinema and a bachelor's degree in communications. She has been actively involved in the rich ecosystem of festivals, including Rencontres internationales du documentaire, Festival du nouveau cinéma, Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma and Vues d'Afrique. She has navigated between the production, coordination and programming departments of short and feature-length films, as well as in mediation. Louise was in charge of organizing the Pan Canadian Student Film Meeting and Competition, a three-day program dedicated to the professionalization of cinema students. At the same time, she has served as a jury member for Canadian and international student film competitions.
Passionate for many years about discovering and supporting emerging filmmakers, Louise Morel is always on the alert for new talent.
Louise is on her 218th day of learning Japanese on Duolingo and has already swam with sperm whales, a turtle, dolphins and a scorpion fish...
BOARD
Alexandre Domingue - Chairman
Editor, cinematographer, entrepreneur… Alexandre Domingue has a passion for all aspects of cinematographic production. For ten years he traveled the world armed with a camera, working on a vast array of projects. A natural innovator, Alexandre is always looking for new ways to improve and invests himself completely in every project he takes on. Suffering from an insatiable love of nature and a generous heart that cares for the wellbeing of everyone around him, he has never been known to refuse a hunting party among friends or a trip to the cabin.
Jean-Philippe Biron - Vice-Chairman
Jean-Philippe Biron is a creative associate producer and co-founder of the Symptôme advertising agency. He has nearly 18 years of experience in project management and communication strategy development for cultural organizations, retail and service businesses. His experience as a business manager allows Travelling to obtain accurate and informed advice for managing the organization and operations.
Fanny Drew - Treasury
Fanny Drew studied at HEC Montreal and has completed a Bachelor of Business Administration. She worked has an accountant before entering in to the world of production. Those different experiences gave her a new desire: to found her own production company. That’s how she co-started Colonelle films with her two partners. She joins the board of Travelling distribution, as an administrator, to participate, in a certain way, in the influence of Quebec's short film around the world.
Louis-Félix Binette - Board Member
Entrepreneur, thinker and creative strategist, Louis-Félix Binette is putting collaboration to productive use. Through his work with management consultancy Escouade, he creates the conditions for innovative and sometimes disruptive projects to take roots in organizations and in their community, then helps the project through to fruition, delivering impact and engagement. Louis-Félix is coordinator and founding member of La MAIN, a network of next-generation business accelerators and incubators. He co-founded Montréal’s CreativeMornings and Fuckup Nights chapters and sits on several boards, including Institut du Nouveau Monde, a not-for-profit whose mission is to foster public participation and citizen engagement.
Benjamin B. Langlois – Board Member
Benjamin B. Langlois is an entrepreneur in the IT field. In 2020, he founded William Fritz Inc., a company dedicated to offering various consulting services in the fields of cloud computing and data engineering. Major clients such as Air Canada, PSP Investments, and the BDC have since called upon his services. In addition to having acquired a rich experience within complex organizations and projects, he also cultivates a passion for cinema. Whether as executive producer on Romain Dumont's short film Quand elle tombe, or as an audience member at several international festivals, he devotes himself to his love of the seventh art whenever he can.
Carolina Klimas – Board Member
A lawyer since 2017, Carolina has worked in boutique entertainment and intellectual property law firms and for a major artists' association. She has extensive experience in the film and television, entertainment and music industries, and in labor relations in these sectors. She is an avid lover of art from near and far, which makes her very enthusiastic about her work in the cultural industry. Carolina is also a member of the Association des juristes pour l'avancement de la vie artistique (AJAVA), the Board of Directors of the Association littéraire et artistique internationale Canada (ALAI Canada), and the Board of Directors of the Centre des musiciens du monde.
Julia Minne – Board Member
(Coming soon)