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Sylvain Guy
Sylvain Guy is a Canadian screenwriter and film director from Quebec. He is most noted for the 2004 film ''Machine Gun Molly (Monica la mitraille)'', for which he and Luc Dionne won the Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 25th Genie Awards in 2005. He was also previously nominated in the same category for ''Black List (Liste noire)'' at the 16th Genie Awards in 1996,"Nominees for the 1995 Genie Awards". Canadian Press, November 7, 1995. and subsequently at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for ''Confessions of a Hitman (Confessions)''. His first film as a director, the short film '' Zie 37 Stagen'', was a Genie nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 18th Genie Awards in 1997. His feature film debut, ''The List'', was an English-language remake of ''Liste noire''. He subsequently directed the feature films ''Detour'' (2009) and ''The Ultimate Pranx Case'' (2012), and wrote the screenplays for the films ''Louis Cyr'', ''Mafia Inc.'', ''Confessions of a Hitm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area and the second-largest by population. Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, between the most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City. Quebec is the home of the Québécois nation. Located in Central Canada, the province shares land borders with Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast, and a coastal border with Nunavut; in the south it borders Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York in the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, Quebec was called ''Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, Quebec b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Hays
Matthew Hays is a Canadians, Canadian film critic, writer, film festival programmer and academic. He won a Lambda Literary Award for his 2007 book ''The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers''. Hays teaches film studies, journalism and communication studies at Concordia University (Montreal), Concordia University in Montreal, and has reviewed films for the ''Montreal Mirror''. His writing has also been published in ''The Globe and Mail'', ''The Guardian'', ''Xtra!'', ''The Walrus'', ''Vice (magazine), Vice'' and ''The Advocate (LGBT magazine), The Advocate'', and he has been a programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival. He was nominated for a 2008 National Magazine Award. Hays is openly gay. Hays earned an Master of Arts, MA in Media studies, Media Studies from Concordia University (Montreal), Concordia University in Montreal in 2008. References Anglophone Quebec people Canadian film critics Concordia University faculty Canadian gay w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Journal De Québec
''Le Journal de Québec'' is a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot .... Printed in tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format, it has the highest circulation for a Quebec City newspaper, with its closest competitor being ''Le Soleil (Quebec), Le Soleil''. It was founded March 6, 1967, by Pierre Péladeau, founder of Quebecor. Like its sister paper, the much more widely-read ''Le Journal de Montréal'', it was established by Pierre Péladeau and is owned by Quebecor Média. A lockout of unionized employees (members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees) began in April 2007 and continued until July 2008. It was the longest-running lockout in the history of the Québec media until then. As an answer to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mégantic (TV Series)
''Mégantic'' is a Canadian television drama limited series, which premiered February 9, 2023, on Club Illico. Directed by Alexis Durand-Brault and written by Sylvain Guy, the eight-episode series centres on the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster of 2013, exploring the impact of the disaster with each episode centred principally around the story of an individual person or family. The series was based on personal testimonies from residents of Lac-Mégantic about the impact of the disaster, with some characters based closely on a real individual while others are composites of multiple stories; according to Durand-Brault, the creators actually used only about 10 to 15 percent of what they had learned from talking to the residents.Rachel Watts"Nearly 10 years after rail disaster, Lac-Mégantic residents watch new series but some say it's 'too soon'" CBC News Montreal, February 7, 2023. The cast includes Lauren Hartley, Olivier Gervais-Courchesne, Catherine Paquin-Béchard, Joakim Robillard, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Dufresne
Diane Dufresne, (born 30 September 1944) is a French Canadian singer and painter, and is known for singing a large repertoire of popular Quebec songs. Dufresne was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She lived in Paris from 1965 to 1967 where she studied voice with Jean Lumière and dramatic art with Françoise Rosay. While there, she performed in noted ''boîte à chansons'' such as l'Écluse, l'Échelle de Jacob, and le Caveau de la Bolée. On her return to Montreal, she began a collaboration with composer , and lyricist Luc Plamondon. In March 2019, she was one of 11 singers from Quebec, alongside Ginette Reno, Céline Dion, Isabelle Boulay, Luce Dufault, Louise Forestier, Laurence Jalbert, Catherine Major, Ariane Moffatt, Marie Denise Pelletier and Marie-Élaine Thibert, who participated in a supergroup recording of Renée Claude's 1971 single "Tu trouveras la paix" after Claude's diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease was announced. Awards and recognition * 1987 – Félix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Journal De Montréal
''Le Journal de Montréal'' is a daily French-language tabloid newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Quebec and is also the largest French-language daily newspaper in North America. Established by Pierre Péladeau in 1964, it is owned by Quebecor Media, and is hence a sister publication of TVA flagship CFTM-DT. It is also Canada's largest tabloid newspaper. Its head office is located on 4545 Frontenac Street in Montreal. ''Le Journal de Montréal'' covers mostly local and provincial news, as well as sports, arts and justice. It is known for its sensationalist news, and its columnists who are often public figures. Since 2013 the newspaper also has an investigation desk that published several major news about Quebec's politics, businesses, crime and national security. It is the only Montreal newspaper that prints on Sundays since '' La Presse'' and ''The Gazette'' dropped their Sunday editions (La Presse has had an ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoire (2023 Film)
''Victoire'' (french: La Cordonnière) is a Canadian drama film, directed by François Bouvier and released in 2023. Adapted from Pauline Gill's series of historical novels about the life of Victoire Du Sault, a 19th-century shoemaker in Montreal who was one of Quebec's first women ever to launch her own business, the film stars Rose-Marie Perreault as Du Sault, and centres on her early romantic relationship with older businessman Georges-Noël Dufresne (Pierre-Yves Cardinal) before being married off to his son Thomas (Nicolas Fontaine).Maxime Demers"Critique de «La cordonnière»: un film réussi sur le plan technique, mais..." ''Le Journal de Montréal'', March 16, 2023. The cast also includes Élise Guilbault in a small role as Victoire in her older age, as well as Madeleine Péloquin, Jeff Boudreault, Anick Lemay, Henri Picard, Nicolas Fontaine, Frédéric Millaire-Zouvi, Antoine Pilon, Martin Larocque, Louis-Georges Girard, Samuel Bouchard, Janie Faucher-Roy, Gabriel Sabouri ... [...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] |
Cult MTL
''Cult MTL'' is an English language arts, culture and news website and monthly print publication, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its first print edition appeared on 7 September 2012. It was created only a few months after Montreal's last English-language alternative weekly, ''Montreal Mirror'', was unceremoniously closed by its parent company, Quebecor. The founding editors of ''Cult MTL'' were also involved with the ''Mirror''. In August 2013 the print version of the magazine was started. See also *List of magazines in Canada This is a list of magazines published in Canada. References Canada * Magazines A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are ge ... References External links * 2012 establishments in Quebec Cultural magazines Independent magazines Magazines established in 2012 Magazines published in Montreal Monthly magazines published in C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mafia Inc
"Mafia" is an informal term that is used to describe criminal organizations that bear a strong similarity to the original “Mafia”, the Sicilian Mafia and Italian Mafia. The central activity of such an organization would be the arbitration of disputes between criminals as well as the organization and enforcement of illicit agreements between criminals through the use of or threat of violence. Mafias often engage in secondary activities such as gambling, loan sharking, drug-trafficking, prostitution, and fraud. In modern times, the 'Ndrangheta, originating in the Southern Italian region of Calabria, is widely considered the richest and most powerful mafia in the world. The term "mafia" was originally applied only to the Italian Mafia or specifically the original “Mafia”, the Sicilian Mafia, and the term originates in Sicily. However, the term has since expanded to encompass other organizations of similar methods and purpose, e.g., "the Russian Mafia" or "the Japanese Mafi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal Gazette
The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of the 20th century. It is one of the French-speaking province's last two English-language dailies; the other is the ''Sherbrooke Record'', which serves the anglophone community in Sherbrooke and the Eastern Townships southeast of Montreal. Founded in 1778 by Fleury Mesplet, ''The Gazette'' is Quebec's oldest daily newspaper and Canada's oldest daily newspaper still in publication. The oldest newspaper overall is the English-language ''Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph'', which was established in 1764 and is published weekly. History Fleury Mesplet founded a French-language weekly newspaper called ''La Gazette du commerce et littéraire, pour la ville et district de Montréal'' on June 3, 1778. It was the first entirely French-language newspaper i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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