Anne-Marie Gélinas (born June 18, 1964) is a

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-based film, documentary and television producer. She is the president and CEO of EMAfilms, a production company that she founded in 2008.

Life and career

After obtaining her B.A. in Communication Studies from

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, Gélinas co-founded Productions Jeux d'Ombres in 1990 along with her husband Andrew Noble, and went on to produce critically acclaimed features such as

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's ''Zigrail''; Eugene Garcia's ''Burnt Eden'', which won 'Best Canadian Independent Film' at the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media in 1997; and ''Méchant Party'', starring Roc LaFortune and

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. Gélinas' other features include Simon Lacombe's ''Ne dis rien'';

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's ''Le Goût des jeunes filles'' (based on the novel by

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), starring

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and

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; John Hazlett's ''

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'', starring

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and

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; and Hassan Benjelloun's '' Où vas-tu Moshé ?''. She was executive producer on ''The Bend'' and the short films ''Big Money'' and ''Avant-goût de printemps''. Anne-Marie Gélinas also produced the documentaries ''Oh Mother!'', ''Change From Within'' and ''Le doigt dans l'œil'', which won the Best Film and Public Choice awards at the Festival de Films de Portneuf sur l'environnement. Her television work includes the series ''Hakuna Matata'' and ''De Dakar à Bandiagara'' for Quebec's specialty television channel,

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. More recently, she worked as line producer on Kim Nguyen's

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(''Rebelle''), which received the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress at

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2012, Best Film and Best Actress awards at

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2012 and a 2013

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nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Anne-Marie co-produced the film ''

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'' and produced

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's ''

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'', starring

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and

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. In 2015, she produced ''

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'', a co-production between Canada and New Zealand that had its world premiere at the

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. ''Turbo Kid'' is directed by François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell. Three of her productions were released in 2017. ''Radius'', a science-fiction thriller directed by Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard and starring

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, which premiered during the

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; ''FISK - Untitled Portrait'', a short documentary about artist William Fisk directed by Alejandro Alvarez Cadilla that premiered as part of the Palm Springs International Shortfest and ''Like a Pebble in the Boot'', a documentary by Hélène Choquette that premiered at the

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. She has completed an Advanced Graduate Diploma in Management of Cultural Organizations from

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. She is a member of the Association des producteurs de film et de télévision du Québec (APFTQ) and she holds a seat on the Board of Directors of Women in Film and Television – Montreal (WIFTM). Anne-Marie has been a member of Montreal's Cinéma Parallèle since 1996, and in 1997 and 2007 she headed the organization of the events surrounding the institution's 30th and 40th anniversaries.

Selected filmography

* ''Zigrail'' (1995) * ''Burnt Eden'' (1997) * ''Oh Mother!'' (1998, documentary) * ''Méchant Party'' (2000) * ''Ne dis rien'' (2001) * ''Des enfants de trop…'' (2001, short) * ''Change From Within'' (2003, documentary) * ''Le Goût des jeunes filles'' (2004) * ''Big Money'' (2005, short) * ''

'' (2005) * ''Où vas-tu Moshé ?'' (2007) * ''Hakuna Matata'' (2007, TV Series) * ''Le doigt dans l'œil'' (2007, documentary) * ''Avant-goût de printemps'' (2008, short) * ''The Bend'' (2009) * ''A Flesh Offering'' (2010) * ''De Dakar à Bandiagara'' (2010, TV Series) * ''

'' (2011) * ''

'' (2012) * ''

'' (2015) * ''A Dog's Life'' (2015, documentary) * '' Night Song'' (2016) * ''Sun at Midnight'' (2016) * ''

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'' (2017) * ''Like a Pebble in the Boot'' (2017, documentary) * ''FISK'' (2017, documentary short)

References

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