Kuproquo (2000)

Interesting facts

Kuproquo is a 1999 Canadian short comedy drama film, the fourth to be written and directed by Jean-François Rivard, about what happens when a six-year-old boy asks an awkward question at the dinner table and his parents struggle to come up with an answer. The short has won several international prizes.

Production

Locomotion Films, part of the Montreal Exponent Group, comprising commercial houses La Fabrique d'Images and S.W.A.T Films, and post- and digital effects house Buzz Image Group, was officially launched the same year as the film's release in 1999 with a view to developing English- and French-track feature films, television series, and dramatic shorts like Kuproquo and Jean-François Asselin's La Petite Histoire d'un homme sans histoire. Marc S.

Kuproquo is Jean-François Rivard's fourth short film, the third following his debut Kopps, which won two prizes at the Vidéaste competition in 1997.

The project received funding from both provincial and federal levels of government, including SODEC, Telefilm Canada, and Radio-Canada.

Rivard said that in most of his previous films, he enjoys putting his characters into embarrassing situations and watching them try to extricate themselves from them. Normally, the characters are in their twenties, but for Kuproquo, he wanted to "change universe" and focus on a slice of life of two young parents in their thirties.

Kuproquo was shot on 16 mm film and then blown up to 35 mm.

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