writer/director /co-producer/translator
Erica Pomerance began film work in 1966 at the NFB as production assistant on Tanya Tree's award-winning documentary THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE. She went on to write and direct three documentaries in the series CENT MILLIONS DE JEUNES , produced by Claude Fournier for Radio-Canada. During her parallel career as a singer songwriter , she released an album of original songs on ESP disk (now released on CD in Europe) and in 1970 played a lead role in the Montreal production of the musical HAIR. She then moved to les Iles-de-la-Madeleine, where for 15 years sheperformed and worked as fisheries journalist, CBC correspondent, Through the 1980s, she waswriter/researcher/ director for Radio Québec, where she produced and directed the 7-part series FEMMES DE METIER.In 1987 Erica returned to Montreal where she has worked on over twenty documentary productions invarious capacities: associate producer, writer, director, production manager and translator. She hasbeen associated with several independent production companies, notably Nutaaq Media Inc., Pax Productions, Maximage, Aquilon Film, Les Productions du Rapie Blanc.
However since 1991 she's been hanging her hat at Nutaaq most weeks in the year. She has recently completed the one-hourdocumentary TABALA: Rhythms in the Wind, on performing artists of the African diaspora in Quebec,which she wrote, directed and co-produced at Nutaaq . Erica's penchant for music and islands isevident in her next project, THE DEVIL'S FINGER, a dramatic film about a Magdalen Island fiddler'sswan song to the declining Gulf fishery, now in script development.She has served as co-chair of the Canadian Independant Film Caucus, Québec from 1991-93 and1996-97, and as vice-president of the Institut québécois du cinéma , 1992-95. Hot Docs FestivalAdvisory Board member 1994-96, and jury coordinator for Quebec. CIFC rep. on the Coalition Documentaire, which lobbies for independent documentary production in Quebec. A regularcontributor to POV Magazine.
Erica Pomerance began film work in 1966 at the NFB as production assistant on Tanya Tree's award-winning documentary THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE. She went on to write and direct three documentaries in the series CENT MILLIONS DE JEUNES , produced by Claude Fournier for Radio-Canada. During her parallel career as a singer songwriter , she released an album of original songs on ESP disk (now released on CD in Europe) and in 1970 played a lead role in the Montreal production of the musical HAIR. She then moved to les Iles-de-la-Madeleine, where for 15 years she performed and worked as fisheries journalist, CBC correspondent, Through the 1980s, she was writer/researcher/ director for Radio Québec, where she produced and directed the 7-part series FEMMES DE METIER.
In 1987 Erica returned to Montreal where she has worked on over twenty documentary productions in various capacities: associate producer, writer, director, production manager and translator. She has been associated with several independent production companies, notably Nutaaq Media Inc., Pax Productions, Maximage, Aquilon Film, Les Productions du Rapie Blanc. However since 1991 she's been hanging her hat at Nutaaq most weeks in the year. She has recently completed the one-hour documentary TABALA: Rhythms in the Wind, on performing artists of the African diaspora in Quebec, which she wrote, directed and co-produced at Nutaaq . Erica's penchant for music and islands is evident in her next project, THE DEVIL'S FINGER, a dramatic film about a Magdalen Island fiddler's swan song to the declining Gulf fishery, now in script development.
She has served as co-chair of the Canadian Independant Film Caucus, Québec from 1991-93 and 1996-97, and as vice-president of the Institut québécois du cinéma , 1992-95. Hot Docs Festival Advisory Board member 1994-96, and jury coordinator for Quebec. CIFC rep. on the Coalition Documentaire, which lobbies for independent documentary production in Quebec. A regular contributor to POV Magazine.