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Taking The Plunge (film)
''Taking the Plunge'' (french: À vos marques... party!, lit. "On Your Marks...Party!") is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Frédéric D'Amours and released in 2007.Charles-Henri Ramond"A vos marques… party! – Film de Frédérick d’Amours" ''Films du Québec'', December 27, 2008. The film stars Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin as Gaby, a teenager who formerly competed in swimming until abandoning the sport due to her self-consciousness about a burn scar on her body; having become a socially withdrawn outsider who aspires only to make it through her final year of high school so that she can go to CEGEP, she is forced by school principal Peggy (Sylvie Moreau) to take on the job of helping new student Sandrine Meilleur (Mariloup Wolfe) to integrate into the school's social environment, which draws Gaby back out of her shell and into a romance with Frédérick Bédard (Jason Roy Léveillée), the popular star of the school's swimming team. The cast also includes Hélène Bourg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Larouche
Christian Larouche is a Canadian film and television producer from Quebec. He is most noted as producer of the film '' Louis Cyr (Louis Cyr: L'homme le plus fort du monde)'', which was the winner of the Jutra Award for Best Film at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014. He began his career in the 1970s as a driver for Cinépix, the production firm of John Dunning and André Link, working his way into greater roles with the company until making his debut as a producer with '' The Ideal Man (L'Homme idéal)'' in 1996. In 2000 he launched his own company, Christal Films.Etan Vlessing"Christal in bankruptcy protection" ''Playback'', May 16, 2008. The company made an aggressive push into film distribution in 2007; although its distribution arm put the company into bankruptcy by 2008, the studio arm survived as a division of Entertainment One, with Larouche remaining president of the division. In addition to his Jutra Award win for ''Louis Cyr'', he was producer of the Best Film nominees '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrée Watters
Andrée Watters-Michaud (born January 25, 1983) is a musician and a two-time Félix Award winner from Quebec Biography Watters was born in Charlesbourg, Quebec, grew up in the Quebec City region and first showed her talent in a Christmas-related musical comedy when she was 15 years old. She later participated in a youth singing contest in which she finished first provincially and third across Canada. After moving to Montreal two years later, she made her first live public appearance in the Radio-Canada game show ''La Fureur''. Watters' brother Patrick, who worked as a firefighter in Alberta, Canada, was killed in July 2007 in a helicopter crash while he and several hundred other firefighters combated a major forest fire near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta. Four others were injured in the incident. In 2003, after signing with Sony BMG, Watters released her first album ''AW'', co-written and produced by Fred St-Gelais, which sold 75,000 copies in Quebec alone.The hits "Si exc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French-language Canadian Films
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents, most of which are members of the ''Organisation internationale de la Francophonie'' (OI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Set In Montreal
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Shot In Montreal
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Romantic Comedy Films
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Sports Comedy Films
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Comedy Films
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Films
The following is an overview of events in 2007 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. The highest-grossing film of the year was '' Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'', which was just ahead of '' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix''. 2007 is often considered one of the greatest years for film in the 21st century. This would also be the last year in which no films grossed at least $1 billion at the box office until 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic prevented multiple theatrically released films. Evaluation of the year Many have considered 2007 to be the greatest year for film in the 21st century and one of the greatest of all time. In his article from April 18, 2017, which highlighted the best movies of 2007, critic Mark Allison of ''Den of Geek'' said, "2007 must surely be remembered as one of the finest years in English-language film-making, quite possibly the best of this century s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10th Jutra Awards
The 10th Jutra Awards were held on March 9, 2008 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2007. CBC Arts, March 10, 2008. Winners and nominees References {{Quebec Cinema Awards 2008 in Quebec Jutra 10[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix Iris For Best Sound
The Prix Iris for Best Sound (french: Prix Iris du meilleur son) is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of the Prix Iris awards program, to honour the year's best sound in feature films made within the Cinema of Quebec. Unlike some film awards, Québec Cinéma does not present separate awards for overall sound and sound editing, but instead honours the full sound team in a single category; however it does also present a distinct category for Best Sound in a Documentary. Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award for Best Sound 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 Overall Sound *Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound Editing References {{Quebec Cinema Awards Awards established in 1999 Film sound a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jutra Award
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."Quebec film awards renamed Prix Iris after Claude Jutra sex scandal" , October 14, 2016. Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award (Prix Jutra, with the ceremony called La Soirée des Jutra) in memory of influential Quebec film director , but Jutra's name was withdrawn from the awards following the publication of |
