Alexandre Franchi is a
Canadian
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 ...
film director from
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 thirtee ...
. He is most noted for his 2009 film ''
The Wild Hunt'', which won the award for
Best Canadian First Feature Film at the
2009 Toronto International Film Festival
The 34th annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 10 and September 19, 2009. The opening night gala presented the Charles Darwin biography ''Creation''. ''The Young Victoria'', based ...
and was named to the annual
Canada's Top Ten Canada's Top Ten is an annual honour, compiled by the Toronto International Film Festival and announced in December each year to identify and promote the year's best Canadian films."Canada's Top Ten awards will honour excellence in Canadian cinema" ...
list of the year's best Canadian films in 2009.
He previously directed the short films ''Chimère'', ''Fata Morgana'', ''Terminal Venus'', ''Love Junket'', and ''Troll Concerto''.
His second feature film, ''
Happy Face'', was released in 2018.
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, j ...
"Why This Movie Cast People Who Are Facially Different"
''Vice
A vice is a practice, behaviour, or habit generally considered immoral, sinful, criminal, rude, taboo, depraved, degrading, deviant or perverted in the associated society. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a negative character tra ...
'', October 3, 2018.
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Film directors from Quebec
Canadian male screenwriters
Screenwriters from Quebec
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Canadian screenwriters
21st-century Canadian male writers
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