Hugues Sweeney

Hugues Sweeney is head of French-language interactive media production at the National Film Board of Canada, based in Montreal.{{cite news|title=4 questions à Hugues Sweeney, producteur interactif à l'ONF|last=Benzakein|first=Dan|date=4 October 2011|work=WebTelevision Observer|language=French}} Sweeney's recent credits include My Tribe Is My Life, the online interactive animation work called Bla Bla,{{cite news|last=Dixon|first=Guy|title=Bla Bla: An Arcade Fire collaborator gets into baby talk|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/movies/bla-bla-an-arcade-fire-collaborator-gets-into-baby-talk/article2106699/|accessdate=August 10, 2011|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=July 22, 2011}} Rouge au carré, an interactive work about the 2012 Quebec student protests,{{cite news|url=http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/la_sphere/2011-2012/chronique.asp?idChronique=230614|title=Rouge au carré : voir le conflit étudiant d'un oeil interactif|date=30 June 2012|work=Radio Canada|language=French|accessdate=13 October 2012}} and the 2013 production A Journal of Insomnia, a web documentary about insomnia which was originally conceived by Sweeney in the summer of 2009, when he and his wife were up nights due to the irregular sleep patterns of their newborn daughter.{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/awards-and-festivals/wide-awake-heres-a-film-that-offers-a-virtual-drop-in-centre-for-the-sleep-deprived/article11240653/|title=Wide awake? Here's a film that offers a virtual drop-in centre for the sleep-deprived|last=Adams|first=James|date=15 April 2013|work=The Globe and Mail|accessdate=16 April 2013}}

In 2012, he was appointed as the jury president for the 18th edition of the Concours Boomerang—the platform that honored the best advertising and interactive websites by Quebec companies.{{cite news|url=http://www2.infopresse.com/blogs/actualites/archive/2012/08/23/article-40430.aspx|title=Concours Boomerang: Hugues Sweeney présidera le jury|last=Gautier|first=Charlotte|date=24 August 2012|work=Infopresse|accessdate=13 October 2012}}

From 2000 to 2007, he headed Radio Canada's Bande à part multi-platform project. He studied philosophy at the Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology in Ottawa and multimedia at Université du Québec à Montréal.{{cite web|url=http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/portraits/hugues_sweeney/|title=Sweeney Hugues|work=Artisans|publisher=National Film Board of Canada|accessdate=13 October 2012}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}