Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous
A woman-tampon joins a man-astronaut on a road trip to the moon. Daniel is on a mission to scatter his mother’s ashes, and Claude is hoping for her period to make a miraculous return. A modern tale that captures the fever dream of a first voyage to the moon.
- Canada
- 2018, 15 min
- Director: Mélanie Charbonneau
- Director of photography: Ariel Méthot
- Editor: Simon Sauvé
- Screenplay: Frédéric Lemay
- Music: Antoine Rochette / Les productions Lost Boys
- Cast: Frédéric Lemay, Noémie O'Farrell
- Art Director: Suzel D. Smith
- Producer: Virginie Nolin
- Production: Hutte Films
Mélanie Charbonneau
Mélanie Charbonneau is a Canadian filmmaker raised in L’Île d’Orléans and based in Montreal, Quebec. She directs films, web series and commercials. Her first short film, Single (2017), was selected for a number of festivals including Namur, Fantasia, Cambridge, and Bayou. Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous (2018) is her second short. In 2019, Mélanie released her first feature, Fabulous, produced by Go Films.