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Continental, A Film Without Guns
''Continental, a Film Without Guns'' (french: Continental, un film sans fusil) is a 2007 Canadian comedy-drama film directed and written by Stéphane Lafleur. Plot The lives of four people intertwine after the disappearance of a man who wanders into the forest. A Man wakes up on a bus. Everybody is gone. Night has fallen. He gets off the bus and finds himself at the edge of a forest. Sounds are coming from deep within the woods. The Man enters the forest and disappears into the night. Recognition * Won: 2007 Toronto International Film Festival: Best Canadian First Feature Film"Toronto film fest's people's choice award stays home". ''Vancouver Sun'', September 17, 2007. * Won: 2007 Whistler Film Festival: Borsos Competition Best Canadian FilmYvonne Zacharias, "Lafleur takes top prize at Whistler; Continental, A Film Without Guns judged to be best new Canadian feature". ''Vancouver Sun'', December 3, 2007. * Official Selection: Venice Film Festival **Jutra Awards: *** Best Mot ...
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Stéphane Lafleur
Stéphane Lafleur (born 1976) is a French-Canadian film director, editor and musician."Director Stéphane Lafleur, at TIFF with Tu Dors Nicole, could be the next big (Canadian) thing"
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Career

Lafleur attended the . In 1999, he directed his first short film, ''

Borsos Competition
The Borsos Competition is the main awards program for Canadian feature films screening at the annual Whistler Film Festival. Introduced for the first time in 2004, the juried competition presents six awards annually to honour films, actors, screenplays, directors, cinematographers and editors in Canadian cinema. The award is named in memory of Canadian film director Phillip Borsos.Alexandra Gill, "Whistler film festival launches Borsos award". ''The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...'', December 4, 2004. The festival also presents several other awards, which are not part of the Borsos Competition. Best Canadian Feature Film Best Performance in a Borsos Competition Film From 2006 to 2010, separate awards were presented for actors and actresses. Since ...
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Canadian Comedy-drama Films
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Films Directed By Stéphane Lafleur
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ...
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2007 Comedy-drama Films
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2000s French-language Films
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2007 Films
The following is an overview of events in 2007 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. The highest-grossing film of the year was '' Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'', which was just ahead of '' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix''. 2007 is often considered one of the greatest years for film in the 21st century. This would also be the last year in which no films grossed at least $1 billion at the box office until 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic prevented multiple theatrically released films. Evaluation of the year Many have considered 2007 to be the greatest year for film in the 21st century and one of the greatest of all time. In his article from April 18, 2017, which highlighted the best movies of 2007, critic Mark Allison of ''Den of Geek'' said, "2007 must surely be remembered as one of the finest years in English-language film-making, quite possibly the best of this century s ...
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Bernard Gariépy Strobl
Bernard Gariépy Strobl is a Canadian re-recording sound mixer, best known internationally as the supervising re-recording mixer of ''Arrival'' (2016), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Sound (shared with Claude La Haye and Sylvain Bellemare) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing (shared with La Haye). He has been a re-recording mixer on many prominent Quebec films of the last two decades, including ''The Red Violin'' (1998), '' C.R.A.Z.Y.'' (2005), ''Monsieur Lazhar'' (2011), ''War Witch'' (2012), '' Gabrielle'' (2013), and '' Endorphine'' (2015). His father, Hans Peter Strobl, was also a rerecording mixer in film. Awards Academy Awards The Academy Awards are a set of awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually for excellence of cinematic achievements. British Academy Film Awards The British Academy Film Award is an annual award show presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Gemini Awards The ...
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Genie Award For Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role to the best performance by a supporting actress in a Canadian film.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . The award was first presented in 1970 by the Canadian Film Awards, and was presented annually until 1978 with the exception of 1974 due to the cancellation of the awards that year. From 1980 until 2012, the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards ceremony; since 2013, it has been presented as part of the new Canadian Screen Awards. In August 2022, the Academy announced that it will discontinue its past practice of presenting gendered awards for film and television actors and actresses; beginning with the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, gender-neutral awards for Best Performance will be presented, with eight nominees per category instead of five.Joseph Pu ...
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Genie Award For Best Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role to the best performance by a supporting actor in a Canadian film.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . The award was first presented in 1970 by the Canadian Film Awards, and was presented annually until 1978 with the exception of 1974 due to the cancellation of the awards that year. From 1980 until 2012, the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards ceremony; since 2013, it has been presented as part of the new Canadian Screen Awards. In August 2022, the Academy announced that it will discontinue its past practice of presenting gendered awards for film and television actors and actresses; beginning with the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, gender-neutral awards for Best Performance will be presented, with eight nominees per category instead of five.Joseph Pugh"Ca ...
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André-Line Beauparlant
André-Line Beauparlant (born 1966 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian art director, production designer, set decorator and film director. She was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design for her work in ''Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil)'' at the 28th Genie Awards and for '' Happy Camper (Camping sauvage)'', ''The Negro (Le nèg')'' and ''The Woman Who Drinks (La Femme qui boit)'' at the 25th Genie Awards. At the 28th Genie Awards, she was also nominated for Best Feature Length Documentary for her film ''Antlers (Panache)''. In 2002, she was nominated for three Jutra Awards for Best Art Direction for ''La Femme qui boit'' and ''Marriages (Mariages)'' and for Best Documentary for '' Three Princesses for Roland (Trois princesses pour Roland)''. She is an alumna of the University of Montreal and a 1993 graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. In 2018, she received a nomination for Best Art Directio ...
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Genie Award For Best Achievement In Art Direction/Production Design
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