UniAction Films is a registered producer and distributor in the motion picture industry.
We produce, distribute, promote and market films and documentaries that raise awareness to various social issues in the world.
CRYPTO: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY!
Produced and distributed by UniAction Films
Expected release : 2023
This documentary will showcase the story of individuals and their cryptocurrency journey from Canada, France, Switzerland, Russia and US. We will cover stories of crypto investors and experts, as well as victims of crypto fraud that are going through a healing process.
MY COMMUNITY, MY STORY
Co-produced and co-distributed by UniAction Films, Dear Our Community and RICE Media
Expected release on June 2, 2022
The Top 3 best stories of individuals/families in Viet Nam will be highlighted in this feature documentary showcasing their struggles and success.
TWO STRAIGHT GIRLS AT A QUEER FEST
Distributed by UniAction Films
Coming in Spring 2022
Em and Jay, respectively a female director and her lead actress, embark on a journey between Montreal, Canada and Durham, North Carolina where they have a short film showing at a gay and lesbian film festival. Throughout their journey, we discover subtly that mental health can be invisible…
Official site: https://www.facebook.com/Twostraightgirls/?ref=py_c
CAPTURES D'AUDACE
Distributed by UniAction Films
Released on November 2021 at Cinéma du Musée (Montréal, QC, Canada)
Release on February 14, 2021 on webdiffusion at SortiesJazzNights.com
During the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic, artists and performers were struggling financially and couldn’t showcase their talent on stage. Filmmaker Marie-Hélène Paninsset decided to create a new concept to help showcase these talents otherwise. Therefore, UniAction and UniAction Films decided to support the initiative by distributing this project and contribute to giving awareness in the repercussions of COVID-19 on the art and entertainment industry.
Official site: https://www.facebook.com/capturesdaudaces
COMING HOME : BEYOND A MOONLESS NIGHT
Produced and distributed by UniAction Films
Directed by Les Films de l’Hydre
Released at Cinéma du Musée on July 2021 (Montreal, QC, Canada)
Opening film at CinéFranco on October 26, 2021 (Toronto, ON, Canada)
International projections coming soon
Coming Home: Beyond a Moonless Night is the sequel to the documentary A Moonless Night and is the second documentary film in the trilogy. The film tells the story of a Canadian of Vietnamese origin, who arrived in the country as a Boat People refugee who leaves to visit the country of her ancestors in a quest for identity.
Forty years after fleeing the Vietnam War through Laos, a Canadian refugee Boat People returns to her roots by going to find an elderly aunt who remained there with whom her family had lost contact. These moving reunions are the occasion of a voyage of discovery through the country of origin but also of Laos and Cambodia which together with Vietnam once made up French Indochina. Through encounters with ordinary people with extraordinary backgrounds, the film forges links between the outbreak of war in this region of the world and decades of colonization.
The research, interviews and screenplay was written by Thi Be Nguyen. The camera, the narration and the production were made by Marie-Hélène Panisset; sound by Yasmine Phan; editing by Philippe Ralet; music by Charles Papasoff; sound design and mixing by Christian Rivest and photography by Josiane Farand.
A MOONLESS NIGHT: BOAT PEOPLE 40 YEARS LATER
Produced and distributed by UniAction Films
Directed by Les Films de l’Hydre
Released at Cinéma du Parc in November 2016 (Montréal, QC, Canada)
Released in Air Canada movie from May to April 2017
Multiple projections throughout Canada (Quebec, Vaudreuil-Dorion, Toronto, Halifax)
DVD and Blu-ray and VOD sales worldwide (Canada, US, France, Vietnam, Australia…)
A Moonless Night: Boat people, 40 years later is a documentary feature film that traces the journey to freedom of Vietnamese refugees who fled their homeland after the tragic events of April 30 1975 when the totalitarian communist regime from the North took over the democratic government from South Vietnam. A series of vibrant testimonies takes us through the escape by sea and sometimes land of men, women, and their children, who were ready to risk everything in order to find a life worth living. After having stayed in refugee camps in South-East Asia, and gone through a short stay at military base Longue-Pointe in the East of Montreal, discover how these exceptional beings managed to succeed their integration through determination and resilience to Canadian life.
Among those participating in the documentary are world renown novelist Kim Thúy, Canadian Senator Thanh Hao Ngo and internationally acclaimed Vietnamese traditional musician Duc Thanh Pham. The great Tiken Jah Fakoly, master of African contemporary music also did us the grace of lending his song “Ouvrez les frontières” for the end-credits. A Moonless Night (86 minutes) is produced by UniAction in collaboration with independent Montreal-based film production company Les Films de L’Hydre, and thanks to the financial support of the National Bank.
The research, interviews were conducted by Thi Be Nguyen, who is herself an Indochinese refugee, having arrived in Canada when she war 4 years old after fleeing Laos to Thailand. Camerawork, sound and editing were all performed by Marie-Hélène Panisset who, after having directed a few dance films and co-directed a dramatic feature film, signs here her first documentary feature film.
THE FORGOTTEN SMILES
Promoted by UniAction Films
The Forgotten Smiles is the documentary film by Lynda Thalie and Jeff Malo which tells the story of the refugee camps in Greece and unaccompanied children in these camps to come to their aid.
UniAction promoted the film, but it was distributed mainly in Greece.
The Premiere took place in the very heart of Athens, in the famous Cinematographic Archives Museum. A debate surrounding the issue of the situation of refugees in the camps, but also, the European situation in the face of the relentless wave of refugees still flocking to the Greek islands followed the projection. Moment of great emotion for the two artists who finally see their joint work in the light, but also for the organization “The Smile Of The Child” which will have seen its work carried out for the last 25 years with children at risk of Greece – Whose refugee children – rightly greeted and applauded.