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Prix Iris For Best Screenplay
The Prix Iris for Best Screenplay (french: Prix Iris du meilleur scénario) is an annual film award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the year's best screenplay in the Cinema of Quebec. Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award for Best Screenplay'' in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra. Following the withdrawal of Jutra's name from the award, the 2016 award was presented under the name Québec Cinéma. The Prix Iris name was announced in October 2016. 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also *Canadian Screen Award for Best Screenplay References {{Quebec Cinema Awards Awards established in 1999 Screenwriting awards for film Screenplay ''ScreenPlay'' is a television drama anthology series broadcast on BBC2 between 9 July 1986 and 27 October 1993. Background After single-play anthology series went off the air, the BBC introduced several showcases for made-for-television, fe ... Quebec-related lists 1999 es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Québec Cinéma
Québec Cinéma is a Canadian organization based in Quebec, whose mission is to promote and develop the Cinema of Quebec. The organization's programs include the Prix Iris, the annual film awards for Quebec films; the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, an annual film festival; the Lab Québec Cinéma, which works with schools to facilitate the use of Quebec films in educational contexts; and Tournée Québec Cinéma, which presents an annual touring minifestival of Quebec films in English Canadian cities where French-language films from Quebec would not otherwise receive theatrical distribution. In December 2018, the organization announced a partnership with Netflix to launch Talent Lab, a professional development program for people entering the film industry. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August 32nd On Earth
''August 32nd on Earth'' (french: Un 32 août sur terre, and also known as ''32nd Day of August on Earth'') is a 1998 Canadian drama film directed and written by Denis Villeneuve, in his feature film directorial debut, and produced by Roger Frappier. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Alexis Martin won the Prix Jutra for Best Actor. The film was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards, but was not nominated. Plot In the aftermath of a highway mishap, photo model Simone (Pascale Bussières) decides that conceiving a baby with her best friend Philippe (Alexis Martin) is the only way to give her vacant life some meaning. Philippe reluctantly agrees with the proviso that they conceive in a desert. Cast Reception Brendan Kelly of Variety praised the film's visuals, the lead performances, the "sparing but effective" use of musical tracks by Quebec icons Robert Charlebois and Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maelström (film)
''Maelström'' is a 2000 Canadian psychological drama film written and directed by Denis Villeneuve. It stars Marie-Josée Croze as a depressed young businesswoman who becomes romantically involved with the son of a man she killed in a hit-and-run accident. Employing fantasy and comedic elements, ''Maelström'' is narrated by a talking fish. Villeneuve conceived of the story, basing it on his interest in car accidents and modelling the protagonist after various women he knew. He cast Croze, then a novice actress, in the lead role. Filming took place in Montreal in 1999, with animatronics to depict the fish narrator. The film premiered at the Montréal World Film Festival in August 2000 and received positive reviews, with some detractors. It won five Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture, and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 51st Berlin International Film Festival. Plot While being gutted alive by a fishmonger, a dying fish chooses to share a story that took place in Quebec dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd Jutra Awards
The 3rd Jutra Awards were held on February 25, 2001 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2000."Maelstrom hooks 8 more: Denis Villeneuve's fish fable takes best picture, actress, director". ''Montreal Gazette'', February 26, 2001. The hosts of the ceremony were Yves Jacques and Élise Guilbault Élise Guilbault (born April 8, 1961) is a Canadian film and television actress. She won the Genie Award for Best Actress for her role in the film ''The Woman Who Drinks (La Femme qui boit)'', and was a nominee for ''Cap Tourmente''. She also sta .... Winners and nominees References {{Quebec Cinema Awards 2001 in Quebec Jutra 03 2000 in Canadian cinema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Léa Pool
Léa Pool C.M. (born 8 September 1950) is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who taught film at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She has directed several documentaries and feature films, many of which have won significant awards including the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, and she was the first woman to win the prize for Best Film at the Quebec Cinema Awards. Pool's films often opposed stereotypes and refused to focus on heterosexual relations, preferring individuality. Early life Pool was born in Soglio, Switzerland in 1950, and raised in Lausanne. Her father was Jewish and a Holocaust survivor from Poland; her mother's family was Christian of Swiss descent and she chose to use her mother's last name. She immigrated to Canada in 1975 to study communications at the Université du Québec à Montréal. In 1978 she got a bachelor’s degree in communications from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She then directed a number of documentaries, short films, and feature films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matroni And Me
''Matroni and Me'' (french: Matroni et moi) is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Jean-Philippe Duval and released in 1999."Matroni and Me" '''', October 18, 1999. Based on a theatrical play by Alexis Martin, the film stars Martin as Gilles, an academic who meets Guylaine () while on vacation in |
Alexis Martin (actor)
Alexis Martin (born June 9, 1964 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian actor and writer. A 1986 graduate of the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal, he has acted in film, television and stage productions, and has written both theatrical plays and film screenplays."Martin, Alexis" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', April 24, 2009. He was a nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Philippe Duval
Jean-Philippe Duval (born 1968) is a Canadian film and television director from Quebec City, Quebec. He is most noted for his 1999 films '' Matroni and Me (Matroni et moi)'', for which he received Jutra Award nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 2nd Jutra Awards,"Prix Jutra finalists unveiled" '' Playback'', February 7, 2000. and a Genie Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the |
Winter Stories
''Winter Stories'' (french: Histoires d'hiver) is a Canadian sports drama film, released in 1999."A winter's tale: Histoires d'Hiver sets coming-of-age during '66-'67 hockey season". ''Montreal Gazette'', February 26, 1999. Directed by François Bouvier and written by Bouvier and Marc Robitaille as an adaptation of Robitaille's book ''Des histoires d'hiver, avec des rues, des écoles et du hockey'', the film centres on a young boy's obsession with ice hockey in the 1960s. The film stars Joël Drapeau-Dalpé as Martin Roy, a boy on the cusp of his teenage years and in his final year of junior high school in 1966. A passionate fan of hockey, particularly of the Montreal Canadiens, he idolizes Henri Richard. However, over the course of the winter he begins to learn that there are many more things in the world to discover, including pot, philosophy and pretty girls. The film's cast also includes Luc Guérin as Martin's father, Denis Bouchard as his uncle Maurice, Suzanne Champagne as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Robitaille
Marc Robitaille is a Canadian screenwriter, novelist and sportswriter. He is most noted for his work on the films ''Winter Stories (Histoires d'hiver)'', for which he and François Bouvier received a Genie Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 20th Genie Awards and a Jutra Award nomination for Best Screenplay at the 2nd Jutra Awards, and ''The Vinland Club (Le Club Vinland)'', for which he was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Screenplay at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards. ''Winter Stories'' was an adaptation of Robitaille's own novel ''Des histoires d'hiver, avec des rues, des écoles et du hockey''."A winter's tale: Histoires d'Hiver sets coming-of-age during '66-'67 hockey season". ''Montreal Gazette'', February 26, 1999. His second novel, ''Un été sans point ni coup sûr'', was subsequently adapted into the film ''A No-Hit No-Run Summer''. Robitaille has also written several non-fiction books on the history of the Montreal Expos and the Montreal Canadiens, including '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Bouvier
François Bouvier is a Canadian film and television director from Quebec."A paradoxical people put on quite the show". ''The Globe and Mail'', June 15, 1985. His credits have included the films ''Jacques and November (Jacques et novembre)'', ''Unfaithful Mornings (Les Matins infidèles)'',"Arcand's Jesus leads Genie race". ''Toronto Star'', February 14, 1990. ''Les Pots cassés'', ''Winter Stories (Histoires d'hiver)'', ''Maman Last Call'',"A blessed event, after all". ''Montreal Gazette'', February 11, 2005. ''Paul à Québec'' and ''La Bolduc'', and episodes of ''Urgence'', ''Quai #1'', ''Tribu.com'', ''Miss Météo'', ''Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin'', ''30 vies'' and ''Jérémie''. He was a Genie Award nominee for Best Director at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990 for ''Les Matins infidèles'', and for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 20th Genie Awards in 1999 for ''Histoires d'hiver''."Genie award nominations". ''Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
