PÉRIPHÉRIA is an independent film production. It aims to produce intelligent media content, entertaining films ( docs or fiction) that are innovative, meaningful and memorable. With an eye toward socially conscious, character driven, humanistic material, the company’s overall mission is to showcase films that inspire, engage and entertain.
Diego Briceño-Orduz, Vice-president & co-founder
Diego is a Colombian-born director, editor and producer based in Montreal. Since 1996 he has been a very active film and video editor of both documentary and fiction. In 2000 he directed, produced and edited A Saddletree, an intimate portrayal of his grandfather. The film won Best Documentary at the Arrowhead International Film Festival (California). He then wrote and directed Things Never Said in Playa Perdida, a 25-minute short fiction. This film played at many international festivals and won Best Short at the Festivalissimo Latino Film Festival of Montreal. In 2003, he produced and edited Yanick Létourneau’s award winning Chronique Urbaine. Then, in 2005, Diego released his most ambitious production to date, Souvenir Kids, a feature-length documentary about street kids who are sexually exploited in Acapulco. The film was broadcasted on CBC Newsworld, RDI and SRC, and participated at many festival and events. He has directed in 2007 the documentary MIDNIGHT BALLADS on Latino immigrants who are working as janitors on the night shift. Diego is currently working on a feature script called LA TOURISTE as well as researching his next documentary projet, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CAMILO, about the theology of liberation.
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Yanick LĂ©tourneau, President & co-founder.
Yanick is a producer and filmmaker of independent films and documentaries. After directing and producing short dramas, hip hop music videos and short documentaries, Yanick wrote, produced and directed his first documentary feature, CHRONIQUE URBAINE (Urban Chronicle), in 2003. The film, made in the tradition of cinema verité, documented the story of under represented Hip Hop artists in Quebec, Canada. He has been since actively developing documentaries & drama projects about popular culture, urban music and social change. In 2005, he produced SOUVENIR KIDS, a documentary by Diego Briceño-Orduz that denounced the sexual exploitation of street kids by Americans and Canadians in Mexico. In 2007, he produced TERRITORIES by Mary Ellen Davis. The documentary about Magnum photographer Larry Towell explores, through his lense, the impact of war and borders on displaced communities. He produced the same year MIDNIGHT BALLADS, by Diego Briceño-Orduz, a documentary about Latino immigrants working on the night shift as janitors in Montreal. He is currently producing and co-directing with Natasha Ivisic I WEAR THE VEIL, an intimate documentary about Islamic women and their relationship to the Muslim scarf. He is currently producing his second feature, THE UNITED STATES OF AFRICA, which deals with the political and social impact of the Hip Hop generation in North America and Africa.