Geneviève Albert is a Canadian filmmaker 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 ...

, whose debut feature film ''

Noemie Says Yes ''Noemie Says Yes'' (french: Noémie dit oui) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Geneviève Albert and released in 2022. The film stars Kelly Depeault as Noémie, a teenage girl who gets drawn into prostitution Prostitution is the bus ...

(Noémie dit oui)'' was released in 2022. She previously directed a number of short films, including ''Paul Hébert, le rêveur acharné'' (2007), ''Reviens-tu ce soir?'' (2008), ''La vie heureuse de Gilles Z'' (2010), ''La traversée du salon'' (2011), ''Entre mon nom et ton film'' (2014), ''Pancakes & Kisses'' (2014) and ''Eroticfism'' (2015), and had a stage role in

Cirque du Soleil Cirque du Soleil (, ; "Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 Ju ...

's 2015 show '' Iris''. ''Noemie Says Yes'' was nominated for the John Dunning Best First Feature Award at the

11th Canadian Screen Awards 11 (eleven) is the natural number following 10 and preceding 12. It is the first repdigit. In English, it is the smallest positive integer whose name has three syllables. Name "Eleven" derives from the Old English ', which is first attested i ...

in 2023.Charles-Henri Ramond
"Écrans canadiens – Viking,13 nominations"
''Films du Québec'', February 22, 2023.

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