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Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Félix Dufour-Laperrière (born 1981) is a Canadian animator, film director and screenwriter from Chicoutimi, Quebec. He is most noted for his 2021 film ''Archipelago (2021 film), Archipelago (Archipel)'', which was the winner of the Prix Luc-Perreault from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma at the 2022 Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma. He also received two Prix Iris nominations for the film at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022, for Prix Iris for Best Documentary Film, Best Documentary Film and Prix Iris for Best Editing in a Documentary, Best Editing in a Documentary. Dufour made a number of short films before releasing his debut feature documentary film, ''Transatlantic (Transatlantique)'', in 2014. He was a four-time Jutra Award nominee for Prix Iris for Best Animated Short Film, Best Animated Short Film, receiving nods at the 6th Jutra Awards in 2004 for ''Black Ink on Blue Sky (Encre noire sur fond d'azur)'', the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009 for ''Rosa Rosa'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicoutimi
Chicoutimi () is the most populous borough (arrondissement) of the city of Saguenay in Quebec, Canada. It is situated at the confluence of the Saguenay and Chicoutimi rivers. During the 20th century, it became the main administrative and commercial centre of the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region. In 2002 it merged into the new city of Saguenay and forms the heart of the 5th-largest urban area of the province of Quebec. At the 2021 census, its population was 69,004. History What was ultimately to become the centre of the borough of Chicoutimi was first settled by French colonists in 1676 as a trading post in the fur trade. At that time, the Saguenay and the Chicoutimi rivers had been used as waterways by the Montagnais tribes for centuries. The name ''Chicoutimi'' means ''the end of the deep water'' in the Innu language. After the British seized Lower Canada, the Chicoutimi trading post continued to operate only until 1782, as the fur trade had moved further west of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Ink On Blue Sky in 2004.Odile Tremblay''Black Ink on Blue Sky'' (french: Encre noir sur fond d'azur) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrière and released in 2003.André Lavoie"Cinéma d'animation - La beauté du trait" '' Le Devoir'', February 7, 2004. Told without dialogue, the film depicts a man surrounded by a strange and surreal cityscape marked by a lot of dark shadows. It was a Jutra Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the 6th Jutra Awards The 6th Jutra Awards were held on February 22, 2004 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2003. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This House (film)
''This House'' (french: Cette maison) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Miryam Charles and released in 2022.Marc van de Klashorst"Berlinale 2022 review: This House (Miryam Charles)" ''International Cinephile Society'', February 18, 2022. Based around the suspicious death of her teenage cousin Tessa in 2008, the film examines the event's impact on her family through a blend of documentary footage with a scripted drama in which an adult version of Tessa ( Schelby Jean-Baptiste) continues to interact with her grieving mother Valeska ( Florence Blain Mbaye) in a liminal space between life and death. The film's cast also includes Ève Duranceau, Nadine Jean, Yardly Kavanagh, Mireille Metellus and Matthew Rankin. The film premiered in the Forum program at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival on February 13, and had its Canadian premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in April. The film was longlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's 2022 Jea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Of The Yew Tree
''Red of the Yew Tree'' (french: If ou le rouge perdu) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Marie-Hélène Turcotte and released in 2016. The film was shortlisted for Best Animated Short 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 categor .... Global News, January 17, 2017. References External links * *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Ève Juste
Marie-Ève Juste is a Canadian film director from Quebec. Her 2012 short film '' With Jeff (Avec Jeff, à moto)'' premiered in the Director's Fortnight at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and was a shortlisted Prix Jutra nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 15th Jutra Awards The 15th Prix Jutra ceremony was held on March 17, 2013 at the Salle Pierre-Mercure theatre in Montreal, Quebec, to honour achievements in the Cinema of Quebec in 2012. ''Lien Multimédia'', August 5, 2015. and ''As Spring Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière
Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière is a Canadian film producer from Quebec. The brother of film director Félix Dufour-Laperrière, with whom he cofounded the studio Embuscade Films, he is most noted as producer of Éléonore Goldberg's short film '' Hibiscus Season (La saison des hibiscus)'', which won the Prix Iris winner for Best Animated Short Film at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021. He was also the producer of his brother's animated documentary film '' Archipelago'', which was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Documentary Film at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022, and of Marie-Noëlle Moreau Robidas's animated short '' Triangle of Darkness (Triangle noir)'', which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Animated Short at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards, and a Prix Iris nominee for Best Animated Short at the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards The 25th Quebec Cinema Awards will be held on December 10, 2023, to honour achievements in the Cinema of Quebec in 2022 and 2023. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DGC Discovery Award
DGC can refer to: Businesses and organizations * Darlton Gliding Club, Nottinghamshire, England * Daybreak Game Company, an American video game developer * Delhi Golf Club, Delhi, India * Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chronometrie, a German organization for the science, art and history of horology * DGC Records, an American record label * Directors Guild of Canada, a Canadian labour union * Dubious Goals Committee, an association football committee, England * Dublin Gospel Choir, an Irish gospel choir * Durban Girls' College, Durban, South Africa Other uses * DARPA Grand Challenge, a competition for American autonomous vehicles * Denham Golf Club railway station, Buckinghamshire, England * Di Gi Charat, a Japanese manga and anime series created by Koge-Donbo * Digital gold currency, a form of digital currency * Disc golf course * Discontinuous gas exchange cycles * Distributed garbage collection (in computing) * Dystrophin-glycoprotein complex, aka DGC, DAGC, or dystrophin-associated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voir
''Voir'' was a francophone alternative weekly newspaper in Montreal, Quebec, published by Communications Voir. ''Voir'' was founded by Pierre Paquet in November 1986. The first issue of the newspaper was published on 27 November 1986. Later on the newspaper developed various local issues with more targeted content. In 2013, the newspaper dropped from weekly to biweekly publication. On April 29, 2015, it was announced that all shares owned by Paquet were purchased by a group of buyers composed of XPND Capital, a Quebec-based private equity firm, and two members of ''Voirs management team, Michel Fortin and Hugues Mailhot. Starting 2016, it commenced publishing as a free monthly magazine. In February 2019, the owners Mishmash Média announced that it was discontinuing the monthly paper edition to concentrate on the digital online edition. The paper format however may be used occasionally and very selectively on certain special issues and supplements of the publication. Chain Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Day Is Listening
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
16th Jutra Awards
The 16th Prix Jutra ceremony was held on March 23, 2014 at the Monument-National theatre in Montreal, Quebec, to honour achievements in the Cinema of Quebec in 2013. Nominations were announced in January.Éric Moreault"Prix Jutra: Louis Cyr champion des nominations" ''Le Soleil'', January 27, 2014. Winners and nominees References {{Quebec Cinema Awards 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.2013 in Canadian cinema 2014 in Quebec 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Presse (Canadian Newspaper)
, founded in 1884, is a French-language digital newspaper published daily in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is owned by an independent nonprofit trust. ' was formerly a broadsheet daily, considered a newspaper of record in Canada. Its Sunday edition was discontinued in 2009, and the weekday edition in 2016. The weekend Saturday printed edition was discontinued on 31 December 2017, turning ' into an entirely digital newspaper. Audience and sections ' is published on its website, .ca, and its mobile app, . The newspaper targets an educated, middle-class readership. Its main competitors are two Montreal print dailies, the tabloid-format ', which aims at a more populist audience, and the more left-leaning broadsheet . ' comprises several sections, dealing individually with arts, sports, business and economy and other themes. Its Saturday print edition (now discontinued) contained over 10 sections. The newspaper's archives from 2000 to 2019 are available on its website. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M (2009 Film)
M, or m, is the thirteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''em'' (pronounced ), plural ''ems''. History The letter M is derived from the Phoenician Mem, via the Greek Mu (Μ, μ). Semitic Mem is most likely derived from a " Proto-Sinaitic" ( Bronze Age) adoption of the "water" ideogram in Egyptian writing. The Egyptian sign had the acrophonic value , from the Egyptian word for "water", ''nt''; the adoption as the Semitic letter for was presumably also on acrophonic grounds, from the Semitic word for "water", '' *mā(y)-''. Use in writing systems The letter represents the bilabial nasal consonant sound in the orthography of Latin as well as in that of many modern languages, and also in the International Phonetic Alphabet. In English, the Oxford English Dictionary (first edition) says that is sometimes a vowel, in words like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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