JustinLachance, CCE
Editor // Monteur
Let's see how far we can push this
INTRO
Raised on Star Trek: The Next Generation, my original plan was to sit in a dark room, push flashy buttons and visit strange new worlds as an astronaut. Fortunately, I found my calling sitting in a dark room, pushing colourful buttons and visiting other worlds as an editor.
I love the art of editing because it allows me to do a deep dive into every character's head while still leaning into my passion for technology. It's the perfect balance for a story-loving nerd.
Whatever the challenge - be it story structure or advanced editing techniques - we will find a solution. Together, we will craft the absolute best way to finesse your idea and tell your story. And hey, if we end up talking about music, snowboarding, craft beers, or our favourite films (mine being Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), so be it! Let's have some fun!
You know what? I think this calls for a
MONTAGE
IXE-13
Montreal, 1945. A few months have passed since the end of the Second World War. Jean Thibault, alias IXE-13, formerly the finest agent in Canada’s spy service, is now the respected owner of the Crystal Night Club in the city’s red light district. While still recovering from his difficult years in the service, Jean finds himself reluctantly drawn into a new undercover operation. On one hand, Russian operatives are trying to obtain uranium to build a bomb that would threaten the West. On the other hand, a powerful Nazi group – led by Rick Gallaher, a Canadian veteran – also seeks uranium for its plot to conquer the world.
Following an attack on one of his people, Jean has no choice but to get back into the spy game, despite the wartime injuries that still haunt him. His fellow agents Roxane Racicot, Marius Lamouche and Victor Laporte agree to team up with Jean on a perilous mission: infiltratng and dismantling the two evil networks before the uranium falls into the conspirators’ clutches.
Client name: Sphère/Club Illico
Date: 2024
Link: https://sphere-media.com/productions/ixe-13/
IXE-13
Edited 4 of 8 episodes
Little Bird
Bezhig Little Bird was adopted into a Jewish family at the age of five, being stripped of her identity and becoming Esther Rosenblum. Now in her 20s, Bezhig longs for the family she lost and to fill in the missing pieces. Her quest lands her in the Canadian prairies where she discovers that she was one of the generation of children forcibly apprehended by the Canadian government through a policy, later coined the 60s Scoop.
Client name: Crave + APTN
Date: 2023
Link: https://www.crave.ca/en/tv-shows/little-bird
Little Bird
Edited 3 of 6 episodes
Under the Banner of Heaven
FX’s Under the Banner of Heaven, the original limited series inspired by the true crime bestseller by Jon Krakauer, follows the events that led to the 1984 murder of Brenda Wright Lafferty (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her baby daughter in a suburb in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah.
Client name: FX on Hulu
Date: 2022
Link: https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/under-the-banner-of-heaven
Under the Banner of Heaven
Edited 2 of 7 episodes
Sharp Objects
Based on the book of the same name by The New York Times bestselling author Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Dark Places), this eight-episode series tells the story of reporter Camille Preaker (Amy Adams) who returns to her small hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. Trying to put together a psychological puzzle from her past, she finds herself identifying with the young victims a bit too closely.
Client name: HBO
Date: 2018
Link: https://www.hbo.com/sharp-objects
Sharp Objects
Co-edited 6 of 8 episodes
Big Little Lies
Based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling book, and featuring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, and Shailene Woodley, this darkly comedic series tells the tale of three mothers whose seemingly perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.
Client name: HBO
Date: 2017
Link: https://www.hbo.com/big-little-lies
Big Little Lies
Season 1 - co-edited 5 of 7 episodes
Can You Hear Me?
Can you hear me? is a dramatic comedy that immerses us in the unusual everyday life of Ada, Fabiola and Carolanne, three longtime friends from a poor neighbourhood in Montreal. With Florence Longpré, Mélissa Bédard and Eve Landry.
Client name: TrioOrange/Télé-Québec/Netflix
Date: 2019-2021
Link: https://mentendstu.telequebec.tv/
Can You Hear Me?
Seasons 2+3 - all 20 episodes
Unité 9
Enter Lietteville Women's Prison and follow the story of Marie Lamontagne (Guylaine Tremblay) and the inmates of Unité 9.
Client name: Aetios/Radio-Canada
Date: 2017-2019
Link: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/unite9/
Unité 9
Seasons 6 and 7 - 24 episodes
Bellefleur
Deprived of his role as stepfather following a breakup, Nicolas takes refuge in his native town and reunites with his high school friends, in order to navigate with them in this new life where his fatherhood is left in the lurch. BELLEFLEUR is a series that talks about the men of today, those we know, those we love, those we sometimes misunderstand. Young fathers, lovers, friends who maintain a kind outlook on the world, even when it is difficult, even when everything changes quickly. A world where they must be united, vulnerable and feminist.
Client name: TrioOrange/Crave
Date: 2024
Link: https://www.crave.ca/tv-shows/belflower
Bellefleur
Edited 5 of 10 episodes
Before I Change My Mind
1987: While the other students wonder if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl, Robin forges a complicated bond with the school bully, making increasingly dangerous choices to fit in.
Client name: Loud Whisper/Outside Line
Date: 2022
Link: https://www.trevorandersonfilms.com/features/before-i-change-my-mind
Before I Change My Mind
Feature Film
The Moodys
Once again, the Moodys are all under the same roof. Yep, one big, happy family. Season Two guest stars include Gerry Dee (“Mr. D”), Josh Segarra (“Arrow”) and more.
Client name: CBS/Fox
Date: 2021
Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3205334/
The Moodys
Season 2 - 3 of 8 episodes
2 Frogs in the West
Marie Deschamps, a 20 year old French-Canadian girl, quits college to go travel and learn English in Western Canada. Her journey will bring her to Whistler, British Columbia, where she will meet other young people who are a little lost, just like her. Somewhere out West, these people and this adventure will change her life forever.
Client name: Dany Papineau, Jacques Roiseux
Date: 2010
Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1673459
2 Frogs in the West
Feature Film
Fugueuse
Four years have passed since Fanny testified against Damien. Even if in the eyes of her parents and friends Fanny managed to turn the page, many ghosts still haunt her. When a few street kids disappear mysteriously, it only takes a few disturbing discoveries for the desire to avenge Ariane's death to blind Fanny and make her take big risks.
Client name: Encore/TVA
Date: 2020
Link: https://videos.tva.ca/page/fugueuse
Fugueuse
Season 2 - 3 of 10 episodes
The Little Deputy
Trevor tries to have a photo taken with his father.
Client name: Dirt City Films
Date: 2015
Link: https://www.trevorandersonfilms.com/shorts/the-little-deputy
The Little Deputy
Short Film
The Man That Got Away
Trevor remembers his great-uncle Jimmy in six original songs.
Client name: Dirt City Films
Date: 2012
Link: https://www.trevorandersonfilms.com/shorts/the-man-that-got-away
The Man That Got Away
Short Film
The Wet Secrets
Music Video "Is this the nightlife we crave?"
Client name: Dirt City Films
Date: 2014
Link: https://sixshooterrecords.com/artists/the-wet-secrets/
The Wet Secrets
Nightlife
The Raftsmen
Henri Beaudout barely survived his adolescence fighting in the French Resistance. Years later, he hatched an unusual plan to salve his wounds of war: Henri mounted a 4000 km voyage across the North Atlantic aboard a primitive log raft.
Client name: Ryan Barnett
Date: 2016
Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5665862/
The Raftsmen
Documentary Short
Life After Death From Above 1979
The life, death, and reunion of Canadian dance-punk two-piece band Death From Above 1979.
Client name: Cola Films/Memory
Date: 2014
Link: https://memory.is/ladfa1979
Life After Death From Above 1979
Documentary
Canadiens Nordiques: The Rivalry
A look back at the fierce Canadiens-Nordiques rivalry that divided Québec for 15 years.
Client name: FairPlay
Date: 2022
Link: https://www.qub.ca/vrai/canadiens-nordiques-la-rivalite
Canadiens Nordiques: The Rivalry
Documentary Series
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