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Un Dimanche à Kigali
''A Sunday in Kigali'' (original French title: ''Un dimanche à Kigali'') is a 2006 Canadian feature film set during the Rwandan genocide. It is directed by Robert Favreau based on the novel '' A Sunday at the pool in Kigali'' by Gil Courtemanche. Plot Bernard Valcourt, a documentary filmmaker, and journalist, sets off to Kigali to film a documentary about AIDS. He gets caught up in the turmoil of horrific events involving Hutus and Tutsis that tragically leads to genocide. During his stay at the Hôtel des Mille Collines, Valcourt falls in love with a beautiful, shy waitress named Gentille. Gentille serves drinks to the diplomats, officials, and Rwandan bourgeoisie who surround the hotel swimming pool every Sunday. While Valcourt's longing for Gentille increases, the country moves toward civil war, and the brutal violence of the Rwandan genocide separates them. A few months go by and Bernard returns to Rwanda, frantically seeking Gentille in the midst of the chaos. Most of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Favreau
Robert Favreau (born July 9, 1948) is a Canadian film director and film editor. His film ''Les muses orphelines'' earned him Genie Award and 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.Un dimanche à Kigali'' earned him another Genie Award nomination for Best Director as well as a nomination for Best Motion Picture. Filmography Director *''Le soleil a pas d'chance'' - 1975 *''Corridors'' - 1980 *''Pris au piège'' - 1980 *''Portion d'éternité'' - 1988 *''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Céline Bonnier
Céline Bonnier (; born August 31, 1965) is a French Canadian actress from Quebec. She has been nominated for four awards including Genie Awards and Gemini Awards. Filmography * 1992: ''Tectonic Plates'' * 1994: ''The Wind from Wyoming (Le Vent du Wyoming)'' : "Manon Mentha" * 1994: ''Million Dollar Babies'' (TV) : "Elzire Dionne" * 1995: ''Le Sphinx'' : "Angie" * 1996: ''Caboose'' : "Camille" * 1997: '' Le Masque'' (série TV) : "Louise Gabriel" * 1997: '' The Assignment'' : "Carla" * 1998: '' La Femme Nikita'' (série télévisée) : ''Off Profile'': "Andrea Kosov" * 2000: '' Tag'' (série TV) : "Melanie Jobin" * 2000: ''The Orphan Muses (Les Muses orphelines)'' : "Martine Tanguay" * 2001: '' On Your Head (Le Ciel sur la tête)'' * 2002: '' Tag - Épilogue'' (série TV) : "Mélanie Jobin" * 2002: '' Le Dernier chapitre'' (feuilleton TV) : "Wendy Desbiens" * 2002: '' Random Passage'' (feuilleton TV) : "Ida Norris" * 2002: '' Le Dernier chapitre: La Suite'' (feuilleton TV) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Gariépy Strobl
Bernard Gariépy Strobl is a Canadian re-recording sound mixer, best known internationally as the supervising re-recording mixer of ''Arrival'' (2016), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Sound (shared with Claude La Haye and Sylvain Bellemare) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing (shared with La Haye). He has been a re-recording mixer on many prominent Quebec films of the last two decades, including ''The Red Violin'' (1998), '' C.R.A.Z.Y.'' (2005), ''Monsieur Lazhar'' (2011), ''War Witch'' (2012), '' Gabrielle'' (2013), and '' Endorphine'' (2015). His father, Hans Peter Strobl, was also a rerecording mixer in film. Awards Academy Awards The Academy Awards are a set of awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually for excellence of cinematic achievements. British Academy Film Awards The British Academy Film Award is an annual award show presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Gemini Awards The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude La Haye
Claude La Haye is a Canadian production sound mixer, best known internationally as the sound mixer of ''Arrival'' (2016), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Sound (shared with Bernard Gariépy Strobl and Sylvain Bellemare) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing (shared with Strobl). He has been sound mixer/recordist/engineer on many prominent films shot in the province of Quebec including ''The Red Violin'' (1998), ''The Human Stain'' (2003), '' Taking Lives'' (2004), '' My Internship in Canada'' (2015), ''Brooklyn'' (2015), and ''Race Race, RACE or "The Race" may refer to: * Race (biology), an informal taxonomic classification within a species, generally within a sub-species * Race (human categorization), classification of humans into groups based on physical traits, and/or s ...'' (2016). Awards and nominations References External links * Interview - A Sound Effect {{DEFAULTSORT:La Haye, Claude Living people Best Sound BAFTA Award winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Caron
Jocelyn "Jo" Caron is a Canadian production sound mixer. He was nominated in the 28th Genie Awards for a Genie Award for Best Achievement in Overall Sound for '' Shake Hands with the Devil'' (shared with Eric Fitz, Gavin Fernandes, Benoit Leduc). Recognition * 1988 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Sound Editing - ''Brother André (Le Frère André)'' - Nominated (shared with Diane Boucher, Viateur Paiement, Marcel Pothier, Antoine Morin) * 1988 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Overall Sound - '' The Young Magician'' - Nominated (shared with Michel Charron, André Gagnon, Michel Descombes) * 1990 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Overall Sound - ''Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal)'' - Won (shared with Patrick Rousseau, Adrian Croll, Hans Peter Strobl) * 1991 Genie Award for Best Overall Sound - '' Moody Beach'' - Nominated (shared with Michel Descombes, Luc Boudrias, Richard Besse) * 1991 Genie Award for Best Overall Sound - '' Love-moi'' - Nominated (shared with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere (born October 1957) is a Canadian lecturer, author, broadcaster, teacher, arts and media critic, currently the program director of the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival in Toronto.John Semley, "Can we play with madness?: Toronto's Rendezvous with Madness festival chips away at the lingering stigmas surrounding mental health". ''The Globe and Mail'', November 3, 2016. He is a former film critic, book columnist and cultural journalist for the ''Toronto Star'', where he worked from 1998 to 2011. His writing has appeared in several newspapers, magazines and arts journals, and he has worked as a broadcaster for both radio and television. He has lectured widely on cultural and media topics, and taught courses at several Canadian universities and colleges. In 2012, he contributed weekly pop culture columns to CBC Radio Syndication, which were heard in nearly twenty markets across Canada. He has also been a movie columnist and regular freelance contributor with ''The Globe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léonce Ngabo
Léonce Ngabo (born 1951) is a Burundian film director. His 1992 film '' Gito l'ingrat'' was the first Burundian feature film.Léonce Ngabo '' Africultures'' Life Ngabo studied chemistry, but kept up his musical interests and wrote the screenplay for a short film and a fairy tale. With the support of a Swiss film-maker, he secured an advance for a full-length feature film. The resulting film, '' Gito l'ingrat'', received international attention.'Vivace Bujumbura', ''The Courier''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Thauvette
Guy Thauvette (born March 19, 1944) is a Canadian actor from Pointe-des-Cascades, Quebec, Pointe-des-Cascades, Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the film ''Infiltration (2017 film), Infiltration (Le problème d'infiltration)'', for which he was a Prix Iris nominee for Prix Iris for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actor at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018, as well as his performance as Gen. Roméo Dallaire in the film ''A Sunday in Kigali (Une dimanche à Kigali)''.Alison Gillmor, "Rwandan genocide through white eyes". ''Winnipeg Free Press'', March 17, 2007. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Thauvette, Guy 1944 births Living people 20th-century Canadian male actors 21st-century Canadian male actors Canadian male film actors Canadian male television actors Male actors from Quebec People from Montérégie French Quebecers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luck Mervil
Luck is the phenomenon and belief that defines the experience of improbable events, especially improbably positive or negative ones. The naturalistic interpretation is that positive and negative events may happen at any time, both due to random and non-random natural and artificial processes, and that even improbable events can happen by random chance. In this view, the epithet "lucky" or "unlucky" is a descriptive label that refers to an event's positivity, negativity, or improbability. Supernatural interpretations of luck consider it to be an attribute of a person or object, or the result of a favorable or unfavorable view of a deity upon a person. These interpretations often ''prescribe'' how luckiness or unluckiness can be obtained, such as by carrying a lucky charm or offering sacrifices or prayers to a deity. Saying someone is "born lucky" may hold different meanings, depending on the interpretation: it could simply mean that they have been born into a good family o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
