Lepage and Schuiten are general collaborators of Villeneuve. Martin Villeneuve and Robert Lepage have worked together on Mars and April (2012), and are teaming up once again on Imelda 2: le notaire (2020), where they both share the screen as actors. Same applies for François Schuiten, who helped Villeneuve design the futuristic look of Mars and April (2012), and who's working with the filmmaker again on Aquarica (????) and Waternova (2020).
Martin Villeneuve is Quebec's first TED speaker, following in the footsteps of numerous personalities such as former United States President Bill Clinton, Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, novelist Isabel Allende, singer Peter Gabriel, U2's Bono and filmmaker James Cameron.
The students who produced this documentary managed the 'tour de force' of interviewing Quebec stage director and actor Robert Lepage, Belgian comic book artist François Schuiten, and even Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, Martin's older brother. They tracked Lepage down to his local gym, and were able to interview Schuiten during a Zoom call with Villeneuve. It is the first time that Denis Villeneuve, generally discreet about his private life, has publicly spoken about his brother, mentioning among other interesting facts Martin's obsession for the Back to the Future (1985) movies.
A bunch of French students studying in Quebec city saw Mars and April (2012), Quebec's first true sci-fi movie, during their filmmaking class. When tasked with producing the portrait of a Quebec artist, they approached director Martin Villeneuve and wanted to question him about Mars and April (2012). But Villeneuve turned them down, because he felt he had talked in length about his first feature film already, and had given hundreds of interviews, even a TED Talk, and therefore had nothing new to say about it. But the students persevered and asked again, arguing that they would come up with questions that no one else has asked before, would also address Villeneuve's upcoming movies, and interview some of his collaborators. Villeneuve finally agreed to the terms.
In this documentary, one learns some surprising facts. For instance, Oscar-nominated Denis Villeneuve, director of such hit films as Sicario (2015), Arrival (2016) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), went 9 years without shooting a feature film in Quebec, between Maelstrom (2000) and Polytechnique (2009), for lack of support from the Canadian funding agencies. Same applies for Robert Lepage - considered to be one of the top 5 contemporary stage directors in the world - who has stopped directing movies in Canada because the local funding agencies (SODEC and Telefilm Canada) would not finance him.