''Coyote'' (french: Le Coyote) is a Canadian
drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...
film, directed by
and released in 2022.
[Charles-Henri Ramond]
"Le coyote en première au TIFF"
''Films du Québec'', August 18, 2022. The film stars
Jorge Martinez Colorado
Jorge Martinez Colorado is a Mexican-Canadian actor.François Lévesque"Katherine Jerkovic et sa lumineuse mélancolie" ''Le Devoir'', September 10, 2022. He is most noted for his performance as Camilo in the film ''Coyote'',Charles-Henri Ramond"Le ...
as Camilo, a Mexican immigrant to Canada who is rebuilding his life as a chef in
La Malbaie
La Malbaie is a municipality in the Charlevoix-Est Regional County Municipality in the Province of Quebec, Canada, situated on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River at the mouth of the Malbaie River. It was formerly known as Murray Bay. La Ma ...
,
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 ...
, who finds his plan complicated when his adult daughter Tania (
Eva Avila
Eva Avila (born Eva Gougeon-Ávila on 25 February 1987) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actress. She won the fourth season of the CTV reality show ''Canadian Idol'' in 2006.
Early life
Avila was born in Gatineau, Quebec. Her father intr ...
) shows up needing his help to care for her son (Enzo Desmeules) while she enters recovery for her drug addiction problems.
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The film entered production in fall 2021.
The film premiered in the Contemporary World Cinema stream at the ]2022 Toronto International Film Festival
The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, the 47th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, is scheduled to be held from September 8 to 18, 2022.
Festival organizers have indicated that the 2022 festival will be staged primar ...
on September 11, 2022. It later screened in the Borsos Competition The Borsos Competition is the main awards program for Canadian feature films screening at the annual Whistler Film Festival. Introduced for the first time in 2004, the juried competition presents six awards annually to honour films, actors, screenpl ...
at the 2022 Whistler Film Festival The Whistler Film Festival (WFF) is an annual film festival held in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 2001, the festival is held the first weekend of December and includes juried competitive sections, the Borsos Awards, and the Pand ...
, where it won the awards for Best Borsos Competition Film and Best Performance in a Borsos Competition Film (Martinez Colorado). Coyote had its US premier in competition at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) is an eleven-day film festival held in Santa Barbara, California since 1986.
The festival boasts screenings of over 200 feature films and shorts from different countries and regions. SBIFF al ...
and it was awarded Best Narrative Feature and Best Actor (Jorge Martinez Colorado) at the Brooklyn Film Festival.
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2022 films
2022 drama films
Canadian drama films
Films shot in Quebec
Films set in Quebec
Films directed by Katherine Jerkovic
Spanish-language Canadian films
2020s Canadian films
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