Le Pays de la Sagouine and Moment Factory offer our warmest thanks to the many community collaborators who participated in the creation of Akadi Lumina. Their generous contributions to this project are beyond measure.
We also thank the teams from Le Pays de la Sagouine and Moment Factory, who together brought this ambitious project to life.
And thanks to you, for visiting Akadi Lumina.
Until next time!
Executive and Artistic Director, Pays de la Sagouine: Monique Poirier
Director of Development, Pays de la Sagouine and Akadi Lumina Director: François Émond
Technical Director, Pays de la Sagouine: Hugo St-Laurent
Creative Director: Amy Chartrand
Producer: Mathieu Grainger
Multimedia Director: Catherine Nadeau
Line Producer: David Noppen
Technical Director: Alexandre Dion-Proulx
Project Coordinator: Catherine Emond
Assistant Technical Director: Pascal Cousineau
Art Director: Marianne Bousquet
Musical Composer: Joe Grass
Sound Designer and Mixer: Mathieu Parisien
Musical Director: Vincent Letellier
Technical Sound Designer: Jesse Ash
Set Designer: Jorge Garcia
Lighting Designer: Etienne Boucher
Lighting Programmer: Stéphane Lecavalier
AV Designer: Jean-philippe El Jeep Langevin, Jenny Erb
Concept Editor: Bronwyn Averett
Content Producer: Véronique Tessier
Content Coordinator: Laura Llorens
Lead Motion Designer: Étienne Varin
Motion Designers: Sophie Linichenko, Charlotte Risch
Graphic Artists: Nataly Kais, Santosh
Graphic Designer: Jean-Simon Therrien
Scenery Project Manager: Sarah Lachance
Scenery Project Manager: Jean-François Bisson
Lighting Project Manager: Matthieu Pichette-Fournier
Senior Director, Business Development and Marketing: Manon McHugh
Business Development: Catherine Lachance
Senior Communications and Marketing Advisor: Annie Leclerc
Communications and Marketing Project Manager: Stacey Leavitt
Video Director: Jonathan Chammas
Photographer: Karel Chladek
Associate Producer - Operations: Emelie Belair
AV Technical Analysts: Jonathan Fauchon, Yanick Landry
Technical Draftsmen: Benoit Giguère, François Gosselin
System Architect: Galina Tsyganovskaya
Technical Documentation Manager: Gabrielle Maisonneuve
CG Supervisors: Laurent Tollard, Patrice Bilodeau
Content Technical Manager: Francis Clément
Data Manager: Paul Savluc
Studio Technician: Shogo Kamada
Artistic Consultant and Narrator: Jac Gautreau
Writer and Story Developer: Matthieu Girard
Dancers - Gathering Table: Christiane Thériault, Mylène Comeau, Émilien Cormier, Aimée Després, Anique Wagner, Adrien Comeau, Dominique Dupuis
Musicians: Joe Grass (multi-instrumentalist), Dominique Dupuis (violin), Emmanuelle Leblanc (foot rhythms, bodhràn, tin whistle), Pascal Miousse (violin, guitar), Marie-Andrée Gaudet (violin), Hubert Francis (frame drum), Robbie Kuster (percussions), François Lafontaine (synthesizers), Sarah Pagé (harp)
Choir Conductor - Jeunes chanteurs d’Acadie: Nadine Hébert
Choral arrangement - Jeunes chanteurs d’Acadie: Marcus Lowry
Jeunes chanteurs d’Acadie: Adèle Poitras, Alexa LeBlanc, Alexandre Cormier, Alexanne Ward, Alicia Thériault, Alizée Doucet, Anna Castonguay, Annie Maillet, Antoine Vautour, Ariane Chiasson, Audrey LeBlanc, Audrey Parker, Charlotte Lagacé, Cloé Arsenault, Emelie Martin, Emily Richard, Emma Bourque, Ève LeBlanc, Ève-Line Belliveau, Flavie Surette, Geneviève Michaud, Hélène Boudreau, Jacem Léger, Janie Maillet, Jasmine Boudreau, Josiane Castonguay, Josianne Thériault, Laurence Belliveau, Madeleine Picard, Madison Belliveau, Maélie St-Onge, Marjolène Logelin, Maya LeBlanc, Mélodie Boucher, Océane Laforest, Olivia Bourque, Olivier Émond, Raemiel Ashtyn Paitan, Sophia Daigle, Starr Melanson, Valérie Martin, Zoé Babineau-Julien, Zoé LeBlanc
Recording Studio Technicians: Danny Bourgeois, François S. Émond
Singers: Zachary Richard, Caroline Savoie, Joe Grass, Sarah Pagé, Hubert Francis, Pascal Miousse, Nada Kehat Mabiala, Émilien Cormier, Aimée Després, Emmanuelle Leblanc, Milène Robichaud, Jac Gautreau
Actors: Matthieu Girard, Tanya Brideau, Louis Émond, Émilien Cormier, Aimée Després, Mylène Comeau
Voices, Echoes of Acadie: Zachary Richard, Jonathan Roy, Brian Francis, Maude Sonier, Clémence Langlois
Archives, Gathering Table: Édith Butler, Kassim Doumbia, Léon Thériault, Pierre Robichaud, Roland Gauvin
Archives, Gathering Table - Directors: Léonard Forest, Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault, Raymond Garceau, Herménégilde Chiasson, Ginette Pellerin, André Gladu, Colette Blanchard
Archives, Roots of Home - Directors: Léonard Forest, Herménégilde Chiasson, Phil Comeau, Andréanne Germain
Thank you to the National Film Board & Archives Radio-Canada for their support and collaboration.
To Pierre Plourde, Geneviève McIntyre, Sabrina Goobie and Darrell Fisher of the Englobe team, who went far beyond their mandate and were great allies in the project.
Thank you to the members of the Board of Directors and the entire Pays de la Sagouine team for their invaluable support and dedication.
Thanks to Paul, May and Maurice Maillet for their generosity.
To UNI Financial Cooperation, principal sponsor, thank you for sharing our vision.
And to all the local collaborators and suppliers who worked in the forest to make it magical!
It is with this team’s immense passion and energy that this luminous dream has become a reality.
