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Prix Iris For Revelation Of The Year
The Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year (french: Prix Iris de la révélation de l'année) is an annual award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the best performances by emerging actors in their first major film roles who were not nominated in the main lead and supporting acting categories.Cédric Bélanger"Gala Québec Cinéma: un vent de fraîcheur a soufflé sur le cinéma québécois" ''Le Journal de Québec'', June 1, 2019. The award is not separated by gender. 2010s 2020s References {{Quebec Cinema Awards Awards established in 2017 Revelation In religion and theology, revelation is the revealing or disclosing of some form of truth or knowledge through communication with a deity or other supernatural entity or entities. Background Inspiration – such as that bestowed by God on the ... Quebec-related lists Awards for young actors ... [...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] |
Family First (film)
''Family First'' (french: Chien de garde, lit=Watch Dog) is a 2018 Canadian crime film directed by Sophie Dupuis. The film premiered at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois. It is about a family in Verdun, Montreal, Quebec, including the protagonist JP ( Jean-Simon Leduc), whose uncle Dany (Paul Ahmarani) leads a drug cartel. It was nominated for four Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Motion Picture, winning Best Actor for Théodore Pellerin. Plot In Verdun, Quebec, Dany runs an illegal drug cartel. His nephews, JP and the younger Vincent, who's 19, work in deliveries and "collections". JP and Vincent travel through Verdun to a Chinese restaurant possessing drugs on Dany's territory, harass the staff and empty the tills; they also intimidate others to coerce them to stop selling on the family territory. JP is dating Mel, who is alarmed about Vincent's erratic behavior, and she suggests to JP that Vincent needs help. Mel sleeps with JP at JP and Vincent's residence, wher ... [...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 The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Colony
''A Colony'' (french: Une colonie) is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, directed by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles and released in 2018. The film centres on Mylia (Émilie Bierre), a young girl starting high school who is torn between her new friendships with Jacinthe (Cassandra Gosselin-Pelletier), a bad influence who encourages her to experiment with sex and alcohol, and Jimmy (Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie), an artistic First Nations in Canada, First Nations student. The film's cast also includes Irlande Côté as Mylia's younger sister Camille, and Noémie Godin-Vigneau and Robin Aubert as their parents. Plot In rural Quebec, Mylia begins high school while living with her younger sister Camille and her parents, Nathalie and Henri. They live on the border of an Abenaki First Nation Indian reserve, reserve and Camille struggles with being bullied by her peers, with Mylia being her only friend. When Mylia gets to high school, she finds her locker is next to her cousin Gab, but Gab is cold t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émilie Bierre
Émilie Bierre (born 12 May 2004) is a French-Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the film ''A Colony (Une colonie)'', for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. Bierre began modelling for Souris Mini children's clothing at age four. She won a Young Artist Award in 2018 for her performance in the television series ''Jenny''. For ''A Colony'', Bierre won the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards, and Best Performance in a Borsos Competition film at the Whistler Film Festival. She has also appeared in the films '' Catimini'', ''Genesis (Genèse)'', '' The Far Shore (Dérive)'', '' Our Own (Les Nôtres)'' and '' The Guide to the Perfect Family (Le Guide de la famille parfaite)'', and in the television series ''Mémoires vives'', ''Les beaux malaises'' and ''Lâcher prise''. For ''Our Own'', she received the Prix Iris for Best Actress Québec Cinéma presen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st Quebec Cinema Awards
The 21st Quebec Cinema Awards, the 21st overall ceremony in the history of the Quebec Cinema Awards, were held on June 2, 2019 in Montreal. Cinematographer Pierre Mignot also received the Iris Tribute. Winners and nominees Nominees and winners are: References {{Quebec Cinema Awards Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirte ... 2018 in Canadian cinema 2019 in Quebec 21 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boost (film)
''Boost'' is a 2016 Canadian drama film directed by Darren Curtis. The film stars Nabil Rajo and Jahmil French as Hakeem and Anthony/"A-Mac", teenagers in the Park Extension neighbourhood of Montreal who work at Hakeem's uncle's car wash while simultaneously maintaining a sideline pursuit of passing on tips about valuable cars to the neighbourhood's gang of car thieves. One day, however, they decide to try their hands at undertaking an auto theft themselves. The film's cast also includes Fanny Mallette, Oluniké Adeliyi, Patrick Goyette and Théodore Pellerin. The film was originally written to be about characters of South Asian background, but was rewritten in a Black Canadian context when Rajo and French were cast as the leads. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabil Rajo
Nabil Rajo is an Eritrean-Canadian actor. He is most noted for his performance in the film '' Boost'', for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards, and received a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards. He was born in Asmara, Eritrea. He emigrated to Canada with his family at the age of six."Meet Eritrean Actor Nabil Rajo" ''The N2 Project''. In 2017, he received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Outstanding Performance, Male in the Independent Theatre division for his performance in the Coal Mine Theatre production of |
Fake Tattoos
''Fake Tattoos'' (french: Les faux tatouages) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Pascal Plante and released in 2017. The film stars Anthony Therrien as Theo, a young loner who meets and falls in love with Mag (Rose-Marie Perreault) at a rock concert. Awards Perreault received a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018, and a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. The film was shortlisted for the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois The Prix collégial du cinéma québécois is an annual Canadian film award, presented to a film from Quebec judged as the best of the year by a jury of students in film studies programs at the province's CEGEPs.Léa Carrier"Je m’appelle humain re ... in 2019. References External links * * * Fake Tattoos' (version in French with English subtitles) at Library and Archives Canada 2017 films 2017 drama films Canadian drama films Films di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose-Marie Perreault
Rose-Marie Perreault is a Canadian actress. She is most noted for her performance in the film ''Fake Tattoos (Les Faux tatouages)'', for which she received a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018, and a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. She has appeared in the films '' The Demons (Les Démons)'', '' La Bolduc'', '' When Love Digs a Hole (Quand l'amour se creuse un trou)'', ''The Fall of the American Empire (La chute de l'empire américain)'', ''Genesis (Genèse)'', ''We Are Gold (Nous sommes Gold)'', ''Before We Explode (Avant qu'on explose)'', '' Target Number One'', ''Flashwood'', '' The Marina (La Marina)'', '' A Revision (Une révision)'' and ''Dusk for a Hitman (Crépuscule pour un tueur)''. She also played Arielle Nelson in the Québécois TV series ''Clash'', which aired for three years (2018–2021) on Canadian networks Super Écran Super Écran is a Canadian p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond Of Matches (film)
''The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches'' (french: La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) is a 2017 Canadian drama film directed by Simon Lavoie and starring Marine Johnson, Antoine L'Écuyer and Jean-François Casabonne. An adaptation of Gaétan Soucy's novel of the same name, the film centres on Alice Soissons (Marine Johnson), a girl raised to believe she is a boy, who lives in with her father and brother in oppressive and secluded conditions. When her father dies, she ventures into the village, where outsiders tell her she is female, and she fears the family home is now under threat. The adaptation was filmed in Montreal, Quebec and the Laurentides and shot in black and white. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was nominated for seven Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Motion Picture. Plot In rural 1930s Quebec, Alice lives in house with older brother, known only as Frère, and their father Mr. Soissons, a recluse who is feared a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marine Johnson
Marine Johnson is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the 2017 film ''The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes)'', for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards, and a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards. She had her first acting role in Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette and André Turpin's 2012 short film '' Ina Litovski''; in 2020 she appeared in Barbeau-Lavalette's feature film ''Goddess of the Fireflies (La déesse des mouches à feu)''. In 2021 she appeared in Ivan Grbovic's film ''Drunken Birds (Les Oiseaux ivres)'', for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards.Brent Furdyk"2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack" ''ET Canada ''ET Canada'' (previously ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
