Pomerance, Erica

Websites:  https://www.facebook.com/epomera/
Origin: Montreal, Québec, 🇨🇦
Biography:

Erica Pomerance is a documentary filmmaker with extensive experience as a journalist, director, screenwriter and producer. She is also a singer-songwriter and actress. She made her debut in cinema at the National Film Board (NFB) and at Films Claude Fournier, where she directed three documentaries for Radio Canada and a short film for the Quebec Pavilion at Expo 67. She returned to documentary production within the Radio-Quebec Gaspésie-les Iles-de-la-Madeleine team, where she produced and directed the series Femmes de métier (1986). Erica works as a screenwriter, director, executive producer and translator on around fifty documentary productions and some fiction works, in collaboration with various independent production houses. She also makes the English versions of Quebec and Canadian documentaries.

Erica is the founder of Initiative Taling Dialo, a structure which organizes introductory video courses for young people aged 17-30 from French-speaking Africa and the cultural communities of Quebec. Founding member of the RIDM of Montreal, former co-president of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus Quebec (DOC), member of the board of directors of the DOC National (1988-2006); vice-president of the Institut québécois du cinéma (1992-95), member of the Arts Council, Media Arts Section (2007-14), member of the ARRQ Board of Directors (2009-15), Governor of the Vues d' Festival Africa.

Leonard Cohen was a mentor to me when I was young. I met him at a folk club, and we developed a friendship. He used to visit McGill and hold court on the lawn.
He let me into his world. We sang songs, played guitar. He was still a local poet and novelist on the verge of his first recording.
-Erica Pomerance

When I was lost and looking for direction he came to my rescue."

– Erica Pomerance

Personnel:
Erica Pomerance, Trevor Koehler, Gail Pollard, Dion Grody, Lany Brooks, Craig Justen, Billy Mitchel, Don Coopersmith, Ron Price, Richie Heissler, and Tom Moore
released January 1, 1968

Credits:
Recorded December, 1968
Cover Art: David Syversen; Back Photo: Tetsu Okuhara
Producer: Tom Willis; Sound Recording: Onno Scholtze
Back Cove Graphics: Michael Behn
Production Manager: Tom Abbs
Digitally rematered by Douglas McGregor
Design & layout by Miles Bachman & Fumi Tomita

Press Quotes:

"Pomerance shook things up, taking what she wanted, dissecting the past and reconstructing her own tightly woven original folk blast. Groovy flutes, buzzing sitar, minimalist piano, bongos, sax squawk, and tambourines create a vision-drenched psychedelic stew -- with Pomerance's voice wavering over the surface like a skipping stone." - Cary Loren (Blastitude)

"You Used To Think is one of those rarities of pure inspiration that rates up there with first platters by the MC5, Stooges, Fugs, Velvet Underground, Silver Apples, Godz, Pearls Before Swine, etc... a classic '68 underground album: a collage of fucked-up eastern ragas, jazz, and atonal folk rock, delivered in a beautiful, raspy, feverish, drug-induced howl, featuring the poetry and singular voice of Erica Pomerance. ESP produced more than its share of outsider visions and here was an album more like a situation, that peeked inside and outside the bullcrap of the music world and the various genres it endlessly pumps out." - DIMMU BORGHILD

Liens pour DOCUMENTAIRES DE ERICA POMERANCE
After the Coup, Malian women speak * english version
https://vimeo.com/300837851
pin: malimuso
pin: mujer

teaser fr
L’Après coup
https://vimeo.com/383832378

Abolish the Knife of Excision ( version anglaise)
https://vimeo.com/240018670

DABLA EXCISION version francaise (lutte pour abolir l’excision en Afrique de l’ouest)
https://vimeo.com/769585953

https://vimeo.com/280732872 teaser

Opération Survie Prise en charge de femmes souffrant de fistule dans la région de Mopti- Bandiagara
Pin : Fistule
https://vimeo.com/365546909

Chronicle of a Medical Mission English version
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p5_yzsfxSo

LE PACTE (suicide de jeune autochtones au Québec
https://vimeo.com/895898167

Resonance version longue
https://vimeo.com/888749994 pin pagne

Resonance courte
https://vimeo.com/888473826 pagne 9:19
Miroir en Face

échange culturel des jeunes autochtone du Québec en voyage au Mali
https://vimeo.com/420073130
pin Échange

TABALA RHYTHM IN THE WIND English version
https://vimeo.com/365559879
parcours de 8 artistes de la diaposra africain vivant au Québec
https://vimeo.com/362787429

Danse de masques dogon
https://vimeo.com/367843298

Djollba Environment English
https://vimeo.com/132452053

Migrants of the Dunes
https://vimeo.com/217602003

Miroir en Face
https://vimeo.com/420073130 pin Échange

The Story of Dogon Indigo
https://vimeo.com/260564119