Pascal Bascaron

biography
Pascal Bascaron is a Montreal-based production manager, line producer and producer working in feature films, television series and commercials. Over more than twenty years, he has worked on 12 feature films, 3 television series, several music films and documentaries, and more than 150 commercials, in Canada and abroad, including the United States, Europe, Latin America, Australia, Thailand and Turkey. A law graduate of the Université de Montréal (LL.B., 1999), he co-founded the Montreal production company Metafilms with Sylvain Corbeil in 2003. There he produced short films by Simon Lavoie, Guy Édoin and Mathieu Denis that screened at TIFF and Clermont-Ferrand and were nominated for Jutra Awards. He then produced the features Laurentie (2011) and Diego Star (2013). Diego Star won eight international festival awards and received five Jutra nominations, including Best Film. From 2014 to 2018, he was a producer and line producer at Go Films, working on titles including 1991 and Nelly. Since 2018 he has worked independently through RCF Films. As a producer, his credits include Sympathie pour le diable (2019). As a line producer or production manager, he has worked on Falcon Lake (2022), La Maison-Bleue, Les hommes de ma mère, Coco Ferme and Philippe Falardeau’s Mille secrets, mille dangers. He is also known for sustainable production in Québec. He applied On tourne vert practices on Falcon Lake and led the green production of Mille secrets, mille dangers, which earned On tourne vert’s Excellence certification. His commercial clients include Air Canada, Qatar Airways, Hitachi, Danone, Pfizer, Bell and Mazda. He works in French and English.