The 40 Club

A club for our 40th edition
For its 40th edition, the International Festival of Films on Art invited forty artists, business people, and friends of the Festival to join the 40 Club and become ambassadors for this anniversary edition.
Le FIFA is an event that brings people together by opening a door to the very essence of human beings. Discovering artists, people of culture, creators — but also, and especially, what is hidden behind classical, avant-garde, or experimental artistic expression — is a privilege, a look deep into the human mind, the imagination, and genius.
From March 15 to March 27, more than 200 films from more than 45 countries will be screened in theatres in Montréal and Québec City, as well as online across Canada on the ARTS.FILM platform. Today, Le FIFA is the biggest festival of films on art in the world.
The members
Alexandre Brunelle
Portfolio Manager, Investment Advisor, Valeurs mobilières Desjardins
Bénédicte Décary
Actor
Carmen Garcia
Producer, Argus Films
Céline Lacerte Lamontagne
Attorney, retired judge, philanthropist
Christiane LeBlanc
Executive and artistic director, Concours musical international de Montréal
Claude Brunet
Lawyer
Claude Godon
Vice-president, management consultant, Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton
Claudette Hould
Art Historian
Debbie Lynch-White
Actor
Denis Gagnon
Designer
Élodie Marteau
Annual campaign director, Université de Montréal
Géraldine Dallaire
PhD, Founder, Pôle entrepreneuriat culturel et créatif
Ginette Petit
Producer, Les Films Outsiders
Guillaume Shama
Global Head of Sales and Partnerships, Aptum MSP Inc.
Isabelle de Mévius
Executive director, 1700 La Poste
Jean-Christophe Yacono (aka Yako)
Visual and multimedia artist
Jean-François Ouellet
Associate professor, Département d’entrepreneuriat et innovation, HEC Montréal
Jennifer Alleyn
Multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker
Joanne Chevrier
Consultant, philanthropy and marketing
Jo-Ann Kane
Art Advisor
Julien Silvestre
Executive director, Conseil des métiers d’art du Québec
Laurence McFalls
Professor of political science, Université de Montréal
Lionel Pardin
President, Rouge On Blue
Lorraine Pintal
Artistic and executive director, Théâtre du Nouveau Monde
Louis Dussault
Associate Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal
Manon Gauthier
Executive director, Fondation Riopelle
Marc Kandalaft
Creative director, RAP – Bureau d’étude et de design
Marie-Julie Dallaire
Filmmaker
Marie-Thérèse Fortin
Actor and director
Mariella Pandolfi
Anthropologist and professor emerita, Faculté des arts et des sciences, Université de Montréal
Martin Houle
Architect, MRIAC, founding director, Kollectif
Mathilde Leclère
Associate professor, Faculté de médecine vétérinaire, Département de sciences cliniques, Université de Montréal
Michel Paradis
Chair, Fondation Grantham pour l’art et l’environnement
Monique Simard
Chair of the board of directors, Fonds Quebecor
Dr Nicolas Chevrier
Chair, Le FIFA, Psychologist and President, Services Psychologiques Séquoia
Nicolas Fonta
General Manager, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Autodesk
Phyllis Lambert
Architect and Founding Director Emeritus of Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)
Pierre Bellerose
Tourism and culture consultant, chair of the board of directors, M pour Montréal
René Rozon
Founder, Festival International du Film sur l’Art
Rudy Hinh-Thai
PhD, Owner-pharmacist
Sally Sakho
Actor
Sébastien Lozé
Unreal Engine Business Director, Simulations and co-Chair Aerospace Committee, VRAR Association
Dre. Sophia Koukoui
Professor of psychology, Université de Montréal, and clinical psychologist
Thomas Giboudeaux
Marketing communications director, MUTEK
Valérie Lessard
Director, Filigrane Archives
Zébulon Perron
Founder and creative director, Atelier Zébulon Perron