To open a window onto significant human experiences through probing cinematographic essays. To explore important social and political issues and provoke debates. To give citizens and artists the opportunity to speak and to exercise their democratic rights.  These are the guiding objectives of Érézi Film Productions.

Paul Lapointe founded Érézi in 1996, following 16 years as a producer with the National Film Board of Canada. To counterbalance often reductive media treatment and over-simplification of issues, Paul Lapointe produces films that approach complex subjects by seeking out their underlying or inner dimensions.

The authors he works with immerse themselves in the environment they are trying to grasp and their films are the fruit of intimate encounters. In 2000, he worked with Magnus Isacsson who gained access to the universe of homeless and marginal men involved in the creation of a choir. The result was the feature Choir Boys. In 2001, Guy Sprung told the story of an ex-criminal trying to re-create himself as an actor in Le Coq de Montréal, while seven directors followed events at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec city to produce View from the Summit. The following year, Anne Henderson directed Water Marks, a portrait, and account of her murder at the hands of a jealous husband, of the poet-activist Pat Lowther, told by her two daughters. A new association with Magnus Isacsson in 2003 produced Hellbent for Justice, a plea for juctice on behalf of innocent victims of biker gangs. 2004 saw the release of Édith and Michel, an intimate portrait of a couple grappling with Alzheimer’s disease, directed by Jocelyne Clarke.

Currently being launched is Luc Côté’s Crash Landing, an account of ex-soldiers of the Canadian Armed Forces suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, while Catherine Hébert has begun editing her film about the theatrical adventures of a priest without a parish and a group of struggling actors. Érézi is currently developing six new projects.