Denis Chouinard (born 1964 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

. He has a degree in Filmmaking from

Cégep de Saint-Laurent Cégep de Saint-Laurent is a public French-language college located in the Saint-Laurent borough in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is a few doors south of the English-language public college Vanier College. History The college traces its origins ...

and a degree in Communications from UQAM. He is a close friend and collaborator of filmmaker

Louis Bélanger Louis Bélanger (born 1964 in Beauport, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has a degree in communications from UQAM. He is a close friend and collaborator of filmmaker Denis Chouinard; both men created several short films ...

; both men created several short films together before branching off into their own careers with feature films. His film ''L'ange de goudron'' won best Canadian feature at the

Montreal World Film Festival The Montreal World Film Festival (WFF; french: le Festival des Films du Monde) was one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF (although the Toronto Internat ...

and earned him a nomination for the

Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Achievement in Direction to the best work by a director of a Canadian film.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards ...

Selected filmography

Feature films

*''Stowaways (Clandestins)'' (Co-directed with Nicolas Wadimoff, 1997) *''

Tar Angel ''Tar Angel'' (french: L'Ange de goudron) is a Canadian drama film, released in 2001. Directed by Denis Chouinard, the film stars Zinedine Soualem as Ahmet Kasmi, the patriarch of a family of Algerian refugees in Montreal whose values are tested ...

(L'ange de goudron)'' (2001) *'' Deliver Me (Délivrez-moi)'' (2006)

Short films and documentaries

*''On parlait pas allemand'' (Documentary co-directed with Jean-Antoine Charest, 1985) *''Dogmatisme ou Le songe d'Adrien'' (Short film co-directed with Louis Bélanger, 1988) *''Le soleil et ses traces'' (Short film co-directed with Louis Bélanger, 1990) *''Les 14 définitions de la pluie'' (Short film co-directed with Louis Bélanger, 1993) *''Le feu'' (Short film, 1995) *''Parade'' (Documentary, 1996) *''Le verbe incendié'' (Documentary, 1998) *''Voir Gilles Groulx'' (Documentary, 2002)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chouinard, Denis 1964 births Living people French Quebecers Canadian screenwriters in French Film directors from Montreal Université du Québec à Montréal alumni Canadian documentary film directors Writers from Montreal Date of birth missing (living people)