Hugues Sweeney is head of French-language
interactive media
Interactive media normally refers to products and services on digital computer-based systems which respond to the user's actions by presenting content such as text, moving image, animation, video and audio. Since its early conception, various fo ...
production at the
National Film Board of Canada
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary f ...
, based in Montreal. Sweeney's recent credits include ''
My Tribe Is My Life'', the online interactive animation work, ''
Bla Bla'',
''Rouge au carré'', an interactive work about the
2012 Quebec student protests, as well as the 2013 production ''
A Journal of Insomnia'', a webdoc about insomnia which was originally conceived by Sweeney in the summer of 2009, when he and his wife were up nights due to the irregular sleep patterns of their newborn daughter.
In 2012, he was president of the jury of the 18th edition of the Concours Boomerang, honouring the best advertising and interactive websites by Quebec companies.
From 2000 to 2007, he headed
Radio Canada
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (french: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the government. ...
's ''
Bande à part'' multi-platform project. He studied philosophy at the
Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology in Ottawa and multimedia at
Université du Québec à Montréal
The Université du Québec à Montréal (English: University of Quebec in Montreal), also known as UQAM, is a French-language public university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québe ...
.
References
External links
''La programmation numérique à l'ONF / Entretien avec Hugues Sweeney'' interview, NFB.ca blog (in French)
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National Film Board of Canada people
Web designers
French Quebecers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
New media artists
Artists from Montreal
Université du Québec à Montréal alumni
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation people
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