Jean-François Lesage
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Jean-François Lesage is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, most noted for his 2020 film '' Prayer for a Lost Mitten (Prière pour une mitaine perdue)''.Pat Mullen
"Nostalgia for City Life: Jean-François Lesage on ‘Prayer for a Lost Mitten’"
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The brother of filmmaker Philippe Lesage, his first credit as a filmmaker was a collaboration with his brother on the 2009 short documentary ''How Can You Tell If the Little Fish Are Happy? (Comment savoir si les petits poissons sont heureux?)''. His feature debut was in 2013 with '' A Mile End Tale (Conte du Mile End)''. His 2015 film '' A Summer Love (Un amour d'été)'' won the Grand Prize for National Feature at the 2015
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. He won special jury prizes at RIDM for '' The Hidden River (La rivière cachée)'' in 2017, and for ''Prayer for a Lost Mitten'' in 2020. ''Prayer for a Lost Mitten'' also won the Best Canadian Feature Documentary award at the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and was a
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nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the
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in 2022.Brent Furdyk
"2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack"
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