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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" '''', September 12, 2014. Career Lafleur attended the . In 1999, he directed his first short film, '' |
Stéphane Lafleur - IFFR 2015-1
Stéphane is a male French given name an equivalent of Stephen/Steven. Notable people with this given name include: * Stéphane Adam (born 1969), French footballer * Stéphane Agbre Dasse (born 1989), Burkinabé football player * Stéphane Allagnon, French film director and screenwriter *Stéphane Antiga (born 1976), French volleyball player * Stéphane Artano *Stéphane Audran * Stéphane Augé (born 1974), French road racing cyclist * Stéphane Auger (born 1970), Canadian hockey referee * Stéphane Auvray * Stéphane Azambre * Stéphane Bancel (born 1972/1973), French billionaire businessman * Stéphane Beauregard (born 1968), Canadian ice hockey player * Stéphane Belmondo * Stéphane Bergeron * Stéphane Bernadis *Stéphane Besle * Stéphane Biakolo * Stéphane Billette *Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra (1937–2007), Congolese politician * Stéphane Bonneau * Stéphane Bonnes * Stéphane Bonsergent * Stéphane Borbiconi *Stéphane Boudin * Stéphane Breitwieser * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world. Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. The festival was formally accredited by the FIAPF in 1951. On 1 July 2014, co-founder and former head of French pay-TV operator Canal+, Pierre Lescure, took over as President of the Festival, while Thierry Frémaux became the General Delegate. The board of directors also appointed Gilles Jacob as Honorary President of the Festival. It is one of the "Big Three" major European film festivals, alongside the Venice Film Festival in Italy and the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany, as well as one of the "Big Five" major international film fes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'll End Up In Jail
''I'll End Up in Jail'' (french: Je finirai en prison) is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Alexandre Dostie and released in 2019. The film stars Martine Francke as an unhappy housewife who is attempting to escape her life, when she arrives at the scene of a fatal car accident and is convinced by its perpetrator Jelly ( Émile Schneider) to help him try to hide the dead body in the forest.Frédéric Desjardins"Décor beauceron pour le nouveau court-métrage d’Alexandre Dostie" ''Beauce Média'', October 3, 2019. The film premiered at the Guanajuato International Film Festival in July 2019, and had its Canadian premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. It subsequently screened in competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and received an honorable mention in the drama category at the 2020 Aspen Shortsfest. Awards The film won several awards at Québec Cinéma's Prend ça court! gala in 2020, including a Best Actress award for Francke. The film rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutants (2016 Film)
''Mutants'' is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Alexandre Dostie and released in 2016. The film stars Joseph DeLorey as Keven, a teenager who, after being injured at baseball practice, is sent on an unexpected emotional journey of discovery. The film's cast also includes Francis La Haye and Sandrine Bisson. Awards At TIFF, the film won the award for Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film, Best Canadian Short Film. It was subsequently named to the festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list of the year's best short films. At the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, the film won the Canadian Screen Award for Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama, Best Live Action Short Drama, and at the 19th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2017, the film won the award for Prix Iris for Best Live Action Short Film, Best Short Film. References External links * 2016 films Best Live Action Short Drama Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O Negative (film)
''O Negative'' is a 2015 Canadian short horror film, directed by Steven McCarthy. The film stars McCarthy as an unnamed man looking for a motel with his vampire girlfriend (Alyx Melone) in order to feed her addiction to human blood.Patrick Phillips"Shocktober Short Film Of The Week: ‘O Negative’" ''Cut Print Film'', October 9, 2017. The film premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. In December 2015, the film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films.Bruce Kirkland"TIFF announces its top 10 films of 2015" ''Toronto Sun The ''Toronto Sun'' is an English-language tabloid newspaper published daily in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The newspaper is one of several ''Sun'' tabloids published by Postmedia Network. The newspaper's offices is located at Postmedia Place in ...'', December 8, 2015. References External links * 2015 short films Canadian horror short films Canadian vampire films 2010s English-language films 2010s C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dismantling
''The Dismantling'' (french: Le Démantèlement), also released in the United States under the title ''The Auction'', is a 2013 Canadian drama film written and directed by Sébastien Pilote. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was a shortlisted nominee for Best Picture at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards."Canadian Screen Awards: Orphan Black, Less Than Kind, Enemy nominated" , 13 January 2014. It was also shortlisted for the |
Gilles (2008 Film)
''Gilles'' is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Constant Mentzas and released in 2008. The film stars Hélène Loiselle as an elderly woman who has spent her life caring for her developmentally disabled son Gilles (Réjean Lefrançois), but who is now terminally ill and struggling to prepare him for the day he will have to move into assisted living. The film was the last significant acting role for Loiselle, one of Quebec's major actresses of the 20th century, before her own death in 2013. The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 30th Genie Awards in 2010.Linda Barnard"Drama rules as Genie nominations announced" ''Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and par ...'', March 1, 2010. References External links * 2008 films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viking (2022 Film)
''Viking'' is a 2022 Canadian comedy film, directed by Stéphane Lafleur. The film centres on a group of people who are working as a "B team" to reenact the events of the first crewed mission to Mars, in the hopes of trying to solve the interpersonal problems among the astronauts that have impacted the real mission. The film's cast includes Steve Laplante, Larissa Corriveau, Fabiola N. Aladin, Hamza Haq, Denis Houle, Marie Brassard and Martin-David Peters. The film premiered in the Platform Prize program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2022. In 2023, the film was released in France under the alternate title ''On dirait la planète mars''. Cast * Marie Brassard as Christiane Comte * Steve Laplante as David * Fabiola N. Aladin as Janet * Denis Houle as Liz * Larissa Corriveau as Steven * Hamza Haq as Gary * Christopher Heyerdahl as Roy Walker Critical response Pat Mullen of ''That Shelf'' called ''Viking'' "Lafleur's best film yet", and anal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivière-du-Loup
Rivière-du-Loup (; 2021 population 20,118) is a small city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the judicial district of Kamouraska. Its one of the largest cities in Bas-Saint-Laurent. History The city was named after the nearby river, whose name means ''Wolf's River'' in French. This name may have come from a native tribe known as "Les Loups" ("The Wolves") or from the many seals, known in French as ''loup-marin'' (sea wolves), once found at the river's mouth. Rivière-du-Loup was established in 1673 as the seigneurie of Sieur Charles-Aubert de la Chesnaye. The community was incorporated as the village of Fraserville, in honour of early Scottish settler Alexander Fraser, in 1850, and became a city in 1910. The city reverted to its original name, Rivière-du-Loup, in 1919. Between 1850 and 1919, the city saw large increases in its anglophone population. Most of them left the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival Vues Dans La Tête De
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced ... [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avec Pas D'casque
Avec pas d'casque is a folk band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, composed of members Stéphane Lafleur, Joël Vaudreuil, Nicolas Moussette, and Mathieu Charbonneau. The band's French name literally means "with no helmet" and derives from an expression referring to hockey players who don't wear helmets, popularized by Jean Dion, a Québécois sports journalist for ''Le Devoir''. History Avec pas d'casque began as a duo, made up of Lafleur and Vaudreuil, who recorded a self-produced album in 2004, which they sold at their concerts. The group's first official album, ''Trois chaudières de sang'', was released on Dare to Care Records on May 9, 2006. In 2008, after gaining a third member in Nicolas Moussette, the band released their second album, ''Dans la nature jusqu'au cou'', on Grosse Boîte, the French division of Dare to Care. After adding a fourth member, Mathieu Charbonneau, Avec pas d'casque released their third album, ''Astronomie'', on March 20, 2012. It was subsequently l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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