While completing their undergraduate studies, Joséane Brunelle and Tristan Tondino began working as art department members in theatre and cinema.
While some of the film projects they were involved with were outstanding (Jésus de Montréal,Le Confessional), many were less so. This prompted them to experiment with screenwriting in 1995, mostly at night and on weekends. They wrote, directed, and produced their first short film in 1998. Within a few years, they earned contracts in film and television with Canadian, American, and European production companies.
Orchestrating their careers as scenic artists, painters, and writers, they adapted two German screenplays (psychological thrillers for Milagro), developed a comedy (Plan B), adapted a novel into a miniseries (Flashpoint for Zone 3), scripted a biographical feature on the artists Willem and Elaine de Kooning (To Will One Thing for Ginty International), and a thriller series about the Orient Express hotel chain ( entitled OX for Global Filmtime International).
In 2008 and 2009, they teamed up with a third author and received two screenwriting grants from SODEC for a comedy titled Art House. They adapted the dialogues from English to French for the High Cost of Living which won Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival.
They wrote, directed, and produced several short films, including Fear and Trembling, which premiered at the World Film Festival of Montreal in 2012 and was broadcast on ICI Tou.tv, and Cell from Hell, an episode of a web series, which also premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2013.
In 2016, they created a bilingual comic strip titled Soso & Frieda which they shared daily on social networks. In response to the demand of their followers, the initial individual panels turned into three bilingual books (French and English) and one multilingual illustrated ABCs book. Bringing the shy Chihuahua and exuberant mouse duo of Soso & Frieda to the small or big screen is one of their current projects.