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19th Quebec Cinema Awards
The 19th Quebec Cinema Awards ceremony was held on 4 June 2017, hosted by actors Guylaine Tremblay and Édith Cochrane, to recognize talent and achievement in the Cinema of Quebec. Formerly known as the Jutra Awards, the Prix Iris name was announced in October 2016. Several categories were also added this year, including for Casting, Visual Effects, Revelation and Documentary Editing and Cinematography, while the Billet d'or for straightforward box office performance was succeeded by the Prix du public ( Public Prize), chosen by viewers' votes. The first winners were announced at the Gala des artisans on 1 June, with producer Lyse Lafontaine also honoured with the Iris Hommage for 30 years of contributions to the province's film industry. Xavier Dolan's ''It's Only the End of the World'' was prominent among the winners with five awards, including Best Film. Winners and nominees Nominees and winners are: References {{Quebec Cinema Awards Quebec Quebec ( ; )Accordin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix Iris
The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec."Quebec film awards renamed Prix Iris after Claude Jutra sex scandal" , October 14, 2016. Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award (Prix Jutra, with the ceremony called La Soirée des Jutra) in memory of influential Quebec film director , but Jutra's name was withdrawn from the awards following the publication of |
Nancy Grant
Nancy Grant is a French-Québécois Canadian film producer. She was born in the small village of Petit-Matane, on the Gaspé Peninsula in the north of Quebec, Canada. She has produced multiple projects with several Quebec filmmakers including Maxime Giroux, Xavier Dolan, Denis Côté, and Anne Émond. Her recent productions include ''Tom at the Farm'' (2013), ''Mommy'' (2014), and '' Félix et Meira'' (2014), which have received numerous awards at institutions including the Toronto International Film Festival, Alfred Bauer Berlin International Film Festival, Academy Awards, and Cannes Film Festival. In 2014, she was awarded Best Motion Picture for ''Mommy'' at the Canadian Screen Awards. Career Grant went to McGill University in Montreal, Canada in the early 2000s, studying psychology and international development.A rising star in Quebec film'', McGill News, April 14, 2015. She graduated in 2005, and shortly after realized her true passion of cinema. With Sylvain Corbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Nguyen
Kim Nguyen is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for his 2012 film ''War Witch (Rebelle)''. The film was the top winner at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards;"Canadian Screen Awards raises the star wattage" '''', March 3, 2013. in addition to being named and winning acting awards for two of its stars, Nguyen himself won the awards for |
Montreal, White City
''Montreal, White City'' (french: Montréal la blanche) is a Canadian drama film, released in 2016. The narrative feature film debut of documentarian and television director Bachir Bensaddek, the film was based on his own earlier theatrical play. The film centres on Kahina (Karina Aktouf), a former Algerian pop star who abandoned the country during the Algerian Civil War and emigrated to Canada to live in peace and privacy. One Christmas Eve, however, she gets into a taxi driven by Amokrane ( Rabah Aït Ouyahia), a more recent Algerian immigrant who recognizes her, forcing each to confront questions of personal identity and cultural assimilation as their personal stories and dramas collide. Accolades At the 5th Canadian Screen Awards The 5th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 12, 2017, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2016. Nominations were announced on January 17, 2017. Awards in many of the technical catego ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachir Bensaddek
Bachir Bensaddek is a Canadian television director of Algerian Berber descent, best known for his co-direction of 2002 Emmy Award-winning TV series ''Cirque du Soleil: Fire Within''. Born in Algeria in the year 1972, Bensaddek came to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1992 as a student before immigrating to Canada. Bensaddek wrote a play in 2004 entitled ''Montréal la blanche'' about Algerian immigrants in Quebec. In May 2011, he released his documentary film '' Rap arabe'', an ORBI-XXI production, covering the rap scene in three countries (Morocco, Lebanon, Syria) with a number of rappers including Malikah, Ashekman, Lil Zac and Don Bigg. It had its premiere at the 27th Festival international de cinéma Vues d'Afrique, and was rebroadcast on RDI, TV5 and Al Jazeera's Documentary channel. Filmography *2001: '' L'eau à la bouche'' (TV) *2001: '' Cirque du Soleil: Fire Within'' (TV series) *2005: '' Le Dernier cycle'' (web, short film) *2006: '' Enfants de la balle'' (TV) *2007: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Bélanger
Louis Bélanger (born 1964 in Beauport, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has a degree in communications from UQAM. He is a close friend and collaborator of filmmaker Denis Chouinard; both men created several short films together before branching off into their own careers with feature films. His film ''Post Mortem'' won him Best Director at the Montreal World Film Festival and earned him two Genie Awards, for best new director and best screenplay. He began making films and long-form videos while still a student. He shot videos for Télévision Suisse Romande in the late 1990s before turning to directing his first feature, the multi-award winning ''Post Mortem'' in 1999. His follow-up was ''Lauzon-Lauzone'', a documentary about the late bad-boy director Jean-Claude Lauzon, and a second feature in 2003, the very assured and mature ''Gaz Bar Blues''. Influenced by the man-of-the-people- docudrama style of John Cassavetes and Ken Loach, he has said that "th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Frappier
Roger Frappier (born April 14, 1945) is a Canadian producer, director, editor, actor, and screenwriter. Biography Roger Frappier worked in all areas of the film business, from film critic to television commercial director to director/ producer of the experimental feature documentary ''Le Gand film ordinaire'', until he found his true vocation as a hands-on producer. While at the National Film Board of Canada in the early 1980s, he assembled a group of writer/directors who collaborated on developing edgy, urban dramas. The script for ''Le Déclin de l’empire américain'' emerged from the process that Frappier had set in motion. With that film’s phenomenal success, Frappier rose to the ranks of the top producers of feature films in Quebec. He left the NFB in 1986 and founded Max Films with Pierre Gendron, producing ''Un Zoo la nuit'' in 1987, the winner of 13 Genie Awards, still a record. His many other films include ''Pouvoir intime'', ''Anne Trister'', ''Jésus de Montréal'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Lovers And A Bear
''Two Lovers and a Bear'' is a 2016 Canadian drama film written and directed by Kim Nguyen and starring Tatiana Maslany and Dane DeHaan. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. The film was released on 7 October 2016, by Entertainment One. It is Gordon Pinsent's final feature film. Plot The film follows the lives of Roman and Lucy, two people living difficult lives in a small, frozen town of Apex, Nunavut, Canada. They are in love, but Lucy tells Roman that she must leave as a stalker has followed her. Roman tells her that he cannot leave and go south again, because of dark things in his own past. He tries to get her to go without him, and is even pushed to the brink of suicide. Eventually, he knows that he must go with her. Roman can talk to bears which only he, it seems, can hear talking back, and a polar bear who talks to him about life makes several appearances in the story. On their snowmobile journey south, they are warned o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hany Ouichou
Hany Ouichou is a Canadian film producer."Le cinéma québécois à un tournant" '' La Presse'', October 18, 2016. The president of the film studio Art & Essai, he is most noted as the producer of '' (Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'ont fait que se creuser un tombeau)'', which was a |
Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves
''Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves'' (french: Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'ont fait que se creuser un tombeau) is a 2016 Canadian drama film directed by Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie. It stars Charlotte Aubin, Laurent Bélanger, Emmanuelle Lussier-Martinez and Gabrielle Tremblay as four young people, veterans of the 2012 Quebec student protests, who have been disillusioned by the failure of their past activism to effect meaningful social change and now engage in small-scale public vandalism. The film competed in the Platform program at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won for Best Canadian Film. It was also nominated for three Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Motion Picture. Cast *Charlotte Aubin as Giutizia *Laurent Bélanger as Tumulto * Emmanuelle Lussier-Martinez as Ordine Nuovo *Gabrielle Tremblay as Klas Batalo Production The film was conceived by co-directors Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie, insp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chloé Leriche
Chloé Leriche is a Canadian film director from Montreal, Quebec."Chloé Leriche à la Berlinale avec un film en langue attikamekw" '''', January 13, 2016. Her debut feature film, '' (Avant les rues)'', received six nominations at the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Before The Streets
''Before the Streets'' (french: Avant les rues) is a 2016 Canadian drama film directed by Chloé Leriche. Set among the Atikamekw people of northern Quebec, the film stars Rykko Bellemare as Shawnouk, a man undertaking the process of restorative justice after accidentally killing someone in the process of committing a crime. The film's cast also includes Martin Dubreuil, Kwena Bellemare-Boivin and Jacques Newashish. Accolades The film won the award for best picture, and Leriche won the award for best director, at the 2016 Whistler Film Festival. At the 2016 Directors Guild of Canada awards, Leriche won the DGC Discovery Award. The film garnered six nominations at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards The 5th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 12, 2017, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2016. Nominations were announced on January 17, 2017. Awards in many of the technical catego ... in 2017, including Best Motio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
