Kyoka Film Inc.
KYOKA FILM INC. was established in 2019 by the producer/director/composer Kyoka Tsukamoto, with a vision of creating multi-media presentations of the original music and film. Since 2003, with the former company Tsukamoto Productions ENR., she has produced some award-winning films with supports from the Canada Council for the Arts and Counseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Her first feature-length hybrid documentary “My Dearest Sister,” in which she also composed the sound track, pushed her into the new direction of creating music driven multi-media works of immersive sound and film.
Collaborating with Montréal based artist-run centers such as PRIM, OBORO, and MAIN FILM, the company produces artistic original contents and presents them in the immersive sound environment at any conventional and non-conventional venues. We aspire to create a modern sacred space that provides meditative and transformative experience through the contemporary music and visual poetry.
Producer /
Director / Composer
Kyoka Tsukamoto has been working on some experimental films and essay works to establish her creative signature; the specificity of the film medium as the complexity of a mind - it is a sculpture of time and space, as it connects pieces of perceived reality, memories and dreams.
Experimentations of cinematic language and explorations in artistic storytelling methods have always been her great interests. The stories that she tells carry several layers of psychological, geographical, social, cultural and spiritual content that are organically entangled, to mirror human nature which is never simple.
Visual Artist /
Digital Artist /
Art Director
Claude Lafrance worked in advertising, first as a graphic designer, then as an illustrator, moving from traditional hyperrealistic illustration to digital illustration, and later he specialized in photo retouching and photomontage. His work has been rewarded with many awards.
Alongside these professional activities, he began an artistic process of pictorial creation mainly inspired by lyrical abstraction. Over the years, he gradually gave more time to his creative work, eventually devoting himself entirely to it. His artworks suggest a conversation, as much as they are witnesses of introspectiveand solitary moments. He certainly hopes that they expose the audience to vast uncertainties, something tangible and open to various interpretations.
Immersive Sound Designer /
Audio Mixer
Bruno Bélanger has been an audio mixer at the artist-run center PRIM, in the fields of independent cinema, visual arts, and sound creation for over twenty-five years. A recognized figure in Quebec’s documentary scene, he has contributed to several critically acclaimed films, including After the odyssey by Helen Doyle (2024), Les 7 paysages by Robert Morin (2022), and The Other Side of Rio by Émilie B. Guérette (2017). He also won an Iris Award for his sound design and mixing work on the The Sons by Manon Cousin (2019).
His current practice focuses on sound spatialization, bringing an immersive dimension to the works he collaborates on. He notably worked on the virtual reality film Bodies of Water by Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin and Caroline Laurin-Beaucage, which premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival and was selected at over twenty international festivals. His recent projects also include the VR work Murmuration by Patricia Bergeron (official competition, Sheffield DocFest 2024) and the live music performance All Is Well (Fred Everything) — A Break In Time (2023).
A multimedia presentation of film and original music at le Gesú in 2025 / photo: capturebymelasse
This project was possible because of Digital Originals - Strategic Funds and Initiatives by the Canada Council for the Arts.
This project was possible because of Digital Originals - Strategic Funds and Initiatives by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Grants Received
2025 OBORO Le Laboratoire nouveaux médias - Programme d'assistance à la production
2025 OBORO Le Laboratoire nouveaux médias - Programme d'assistance à la diffusion
2024-2025 Canada Council for the Arts – Grants to Film and Video Artist – Concept to Realization component
2024-2025 PRIM – Programme d'aide à la création
2023 The Canada Council for the Arts - Professional Development for Artists - the Explore and Create Program
2023 SODEC_LAB @ CPH:DOX – participation to the financing and co-production event at film festival in Copenhagen
2021-2022 Canada Council for the Arts – Grants to Film and Video Artist – Concept to Realization component
2021-2022 Telefilm Canada – Canada Feature Film Fund – Development
2020-2021 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – Exploration and digital deployment – Film and Video
2020-2021 PRIM – Programme d'aide à la création
2020-2021 Canada Council for the Arts – Strategic Funds and Initiatives – Digital Originals – Media Arts
2019-2020 Canada Council for the Arts – Grants to Film and Video Artist – Research and Creation component
2019 Canada Council for the Arts – Travel component of the Arts Abroad Program
2019 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – Travelling Grant to attend Raindance Film Festival in UK
2018-2019 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – Grant Program for Professional Artists
2017-2018 Canada Council for the Arts – Grants to Film and Video Artist – The New Chapter Program
2017 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – Traveling Grant to attend International Forum at Visions du Réel in Switzerland
2017-2018 PRIM – Programme d'aide à la création
2015-2016 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – Grant Program for Professional Artists
2015-2016 PRIM – Programme d'aide à la création
2015-2016 Canada Council for the Arts – Grants to Film and Video Artist
2012-2013 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – Grant Program for Professional Artists
2011-2012 National Film Board of Canada – Filmmaker Assistance Program
2003-2004 National Film Board of Canada – Filmmaker Assistance Program
2002-2003 Canada Council for the Arts – Grants to Film and Video Artist