A Presentation of... Me

My name is Benjamin Pelletier. I am a seventeen-year-old cinema student at the cegep Saint-Laurent since September 2009, and I have been enjoying it rather well. I live in the South Shore, Brossard to be more precise, and I think the hour-long travel each morning it worth it.

My biggest passion in life is cinema, without question. For about as long as I can remember I have always overly enjoyed watching films, especially old films and art films since more recently. One of my personal favorites it Martin Scorsese's 1976 masterpiece character study "Taxi Driver", with Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster. Bergman's "Scenes from a Marriage" and "Fanny & Alexander", Malick's "The New World" and Renoir's "The Rules of the Game" are also among my current favorites.

Not only have I loved watching movies since my childhood, I have now found myself pretty good at writing about them. It is also something I enjoy a lot; I always had a more analytic/critic method of thinking rather than a creative one. Maybe that is why one of my long-term goals is to get at the University of Montreal or Concordia in film studies.

One my short-term goals is to work as a volunteer at the college videoclub, and at mid-term, I would maybe like to find a girlfriend (that's a maybe). One my accomplishments is that me and my friends, last year, made a ten-minute short about life in high school. The short was screened at the graduation gala and was highly praised.