Antoine Bourges is a

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filmmaker and screenwriter.Marsha Lederman
"Fail to Appear, screening at VIFF, showcases a new wave of Toronto talent"
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'', September 20, 2017. He is most noted for his 2012 mid-length docudrama film '' East Hastings Pharmacy'', which was the winner of the

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at the 2013

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, and his 2017 narrative feature film ''

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'', which was a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017. Originally from

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, he moved to Canada as a teenager to play

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; after failing to make the

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, he studied film at the

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and

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. He remains based in

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as a professor in the film program at UBC. He made a number of short films prior to ''East Hastings Pharmacy''; the most noted of these, ''Woman Waiting'', premiered at the

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, and was screened at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival. His newest film, ''

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'', premiered in the Wavelengths program at the

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. It is also slated to screen at the

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on 21 February 2023.Scott Roxborough
"Berlin Fest Adds World Premieres of John Malkovich’s ‘Seneca,’ Alex Gibney’s Boris Becker Doc"
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'', December 20, 2022.

Filmography

*''Hello Goodbye'' - 2008 *''People Were There'' - 2008 *''Woman Waiting'' - 2010 *'' East Hastings Pharmacy'' - 2012 *''William in White Shirt'' - 2015 *''

'' - 2017 *''

'' - 2022

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