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5th Jutra Awards
The 5th Jutra Awards were held on February 23, 2003 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2002.Brendan Kelly"‘Seraphin’ tops list at Jutra noms" ''Variety'', January 28, 2003. '' Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché)'' received ten nominations and became the first film to receive five acting nominations and the second to receive at least one in every acting category. It also became the fourth film to receive two acting awards and the first to win both Best Actor, for Pierre Lebeau, and Best Actress, for Karine Vanasse. In total, the film won six competitive awards and the Billet d'or award. With seven nominations, Ricardo Trogi's comedy ''Québec-Montréal'' was the night's big winner, receiving four awards in major categories: Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Isabelle Blais. Luc Picard and Karine Vanasse became the first actors to win two acting awards. Picard previously ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jutra Awards
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with the ceremony called La Soirée des Jutra) in memory of influential Quebec film director , but Jutra's name was withdrawn from the awards following the publication of |
Set Me Free (1999 Film)
''Set Me Free'' (french: Emporte-moi) is a 1999 Canadian coming-of-age drama film by Léa Pool and starring Karine Vanasse. It tells the story of Hanna, a girl struggling with her sexuality and the depression of both her parents as she goes through puberty in Quebec in 1963. The film heavily references the French new-wave film ''Vivre sa vie'' by Jean-Luc Godard. The film won critical acclaim and several awards, both for Pool and Vanasse, including being named the year's best Canadian feature by the Toronto Film Critics Association. Plot In 1963, Hanna, a 13-year old girl, is living on a farm in rural Quebec with her grandparents and uncle (who apparently has a developmental disability such as Down Syndrome) when she gets her first period. Soon after, she interrupts family dinner when her father calls her, much to her grandmother's annoyance. The onset of puberty (and her grandmother's relatively non-supportive explanation of it), as well as hearing from her father, trigger her ... [...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 |
The Negro (film)
''The Negro'' (french: Le Nèg') is a 2002 Canadian drama film, directed by Robert Morin."Le Neg' shows up bigots: Morin's work is tough, personal". 'Montreal Gazette'', October 21, 2002. An examination of racism, the film centres on a police officer in a small Quebec town who is trying to reconstruct, through the conflicting testimony of witnesses and participants, the events of the night before, when the petty vandalism of a woman's lawn jockey escalated within a few hours to the woman being found dead and the young Black Canadian suspected of committing the vandalism having been viciously beaten in a field. The film's original title, equivalent in Quebec French to "the nigger", was controversial, with a Black youth group in Montreal demanding that the film's title and promotional poster be changed. Morin, however, defended his choice to use a controversial title, stating that "If it stirs up some controversy, then at least people will be talking about racism." The film's cast in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Morin
Robert Morin (born May 20, 1949) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 2009, he received Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. Biography Robert Morin is known for his very personal, dark, and pessimistic "interior views" of family, crime, law enforcement, and human suffering. He studied Literature and Communications and in 1971 began to work as a cameraman, joining ORTQ in Rimouski, where he directed films and videos. In 1977, with a group of friends and colleagues, Morin founded La Coopérative de Production Vidéo de Montréal, where he continues to produce his own work. After creating close to 30 short films with his colleagues over 10 years, he directed his first feature-length film ''Tristesse modèle réduit'' in 1987. His film ''Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur'' was nominated for the Genie Awards for Best Motion Picture and Best Director. Filmography Feature films *''Scale-Model Sadness (Tristesse modèle réduit)'' - 1987 *'' (L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Baroness And The Pig
''The Baroness and the Pig'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Michael Mackenzie and released in 2002. Based on Mackenzie's own stage play, the film stars Patricia Clarkson as The Baroness, a Quaker woman from Philadelphia who moves to Paris with her husband, The Baron (Colm Feore) in the 1880s; however, her egalitarian ideals conflict with the elitism of Parisian society, particularly when she launches a plan to rehabilitate and bring into society a wild girl (Caroline Dhavernas) who was raised in a pig sty, leading The Duchess (Louise Marleau) to attempt to engineer The Baroness's downfall.Liam Lacey"The Baroness and the Pig" ''The Globe and Mail'', August 13, 2004. The film premiered on September 8, 2002 at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival.Mark Dillon"The Baroness and the Pig’s all-digital model" '' Playback'', September 16, 2002. It was screened under an experimental model, by which instead of a traditional film print being projected in a standard manner, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Mackenzie (filmmaker)
Michael Mackenzie works in film, theatre and technology policy. He has directed two feature films, both theatrically released in Canada. His plays have been staged in Europe and North America and variously published in English, French, German and Hungarian. He has a Ph.D from L’Institut d'Histoire et Sociopolitique de Science, Université de Montréal. Past academic appointments include Visiting Fellow at Princeton University Professor of Humanities at Vanier College, and consultant at the United Nations. Theatre Since 1990 Mackenzie's plays have been produced in Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, France, Portugal, Spain, England, Nova Scotia, across Quebec, and in Toronto and Vancouver. His recent play on the 2008 financial crisis "Instructions to Any Future Government Wishing to Abolish Christmas" was a finalist for the 4th International STAGE Competition, the French production toured through twenty-five theatres in Quebec (2015-2016) and played at the ''National Arts Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Trogi
Ricardo Trogi (born March 25, 1970) is a Canadian filmmaker, director and actor. Career Trogi was born in Quebec City, Quebec. His first two films, ''Québec-Montréal'', about seven twenty-something travellers driving between the two cities, and ''Dodging the Clock (Horloge biologique)'', a look at three men and their decisions about having children, were both critical and commercial hits, with ''Quebec-Montréal'' receiving four Jutra Awards. His third feature titled ''1981'', a semi-autobiographical film about a boy's coming of age, was released in September 2009; it was followed by the sequel films ''1987'' in 2014 and ''1991'' in 2018. In addition to film work, Trogi also directed the 2004-2005 television series ''Smash'' and the 2020 comedy series ''La Maison-Bleue''. Awards *Jutra Award for Best Director, ''Québec-Montréal'' (2003) *Prix Iris for Best Director, ''1991'' (2019) Filmography Director ;Films *2002: ''Québec-Montréal'' *2005: ''Dodging the Clock (Horloge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorraine Richard (producer)
Lorraine Richard (born July 30, 1959, in Havre-Saint-Pierre, Quebec) is a Quebec politician. She is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Duplessis in the Côte-Nord region. She represents the Parti Québécois. Richard was a nursing assistant in a health center in Havre St-Pierre for 25 years in which she was also the secretary for the Minganie Health Center's employee union. She was also a school commissioner for 16 years, the vice-president of the Côte-Nord School Board's Association for five years. Richard was elected in Duplessis in the 2003 elections and was the PQ's critic for citizen relations, maritime affairs and social services. She was re-elected in the 2007 and 2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ... general elections. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Fortin
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Yves may refer to: * Yves, Charente-Maritime, a commune of the Charente-Maritime department in France * Yves (given name), including a list of people with the name * ''Yves'' (single album), a single album by Loona * ''Yves'' (film), a 2019 French film See also * Yves Tumor, U.S. musician * * Eve (other) * Evette (other) * Yvette (other) * Yvon (other) * Yvonne (other) Yvonne is a female given name. Yvonne may also refer to: * Yvonne (band), a 1993—2002 Swedish group featuring Henric de la Cour * Yvonne (cow) a German cow that escaped and was missing for several weeks in 2011 * ''Yvonne'' (musical), a 1926 We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marsh (2002 Film)
''The Marsh'' (french: Le Marais) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Kim Nguyen and released in 2002."Marais, Le – Film de Kim Nguyen" ''Films du Québec'', January 28, 2009. Set in during the 19th century, the film stars and as Alexandre and Ulysse, two social outcasts who settle on a haunted marsh on the outskirts of a village, but become wrongly suspected of criminal wrongdoing after a woman fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginette Petit
Ginette may refer to: Music * "Ginette", a song by Têtes Raides. * "Ginette", a song by Beau Dommage. People * Ginette Leclerc (1912–1992), French actress * Ginette Mathiot (born 1946), French chef * Ginette Moulin, French billionaire heiress * Ginette Reno (born 1946), Québécoise singer and actress Other uses * Lycée privé Sainte-Geneviève The Lycée Sainte-Geneviève is a private ''lycée'', located in Versailles and providing preparatory classes for ''grandes écoles''. It was founded by the Jesuits in Paris in April 1854. It is often nicknamed ''Ginette'' and sometimes ''BJ'', ..., a French Lycée providing preparatory classes for Grandes Ecoles * A brand name of co-cyprindiol (cyproterone acetate/ethinylestradiol), an oral contraceptive {{disambig, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |