Jeanne Crépeau (born 1961 in

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) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from

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Julie and Me ''Julie and Me'' (french: Revoir Julie) is a Canadian lesbian romantic comedy film, directed by Jeanne Crépeau and released in 1998."Oh! Revoir Julie: Montrealer's fine first feature is a tiny revelation". ''Montreal Gazette'', October 24, 1998 ...

(Revoir Julie)''."Oh! Revoir Julie: Montrealer's fine first feature is a tiny revelation". ''

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'', October 24, 1998. Trained at the

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and the

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, she made a number of short films in the 1980s and early 1990s. Her 1989 short film '' Justine's Film (Le film de Justine)'' screened at the

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, where it received an honourable mention from the Best Canadian Short Film award jury, and at the 1990 Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival, where it won awards for Best Experimental Film, Best Director and Best Musical Score. In 1991, she collaborated with the dance troupe Brouhaha Danse on ''Claire'', a video and performance tribute to dancer Claire Samson following her murder in 1990. She had initially planned to make her debut feature film about an

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swimmer, but had difficulty securing funding; after visiting a friend in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, she rewrote the film's script and rented her friend's house for two months to serve as the film's set. ''Revoir Julie'' was released in 1998, and won the Audience Award at the Paris Lesbian Film Festival in 1999."Revoir Julie – Film de Jeanne Crépeau"
''Films du Québec'', June 2, 2009.

Films

*''By Attrition (L'Usure)'' - 1986 *''The Flu (Gerçure)'' - 1988 *'' Justine's Film (Le film de Justine)'' - 1989 *''La Tranchée'' - 1991 *''Claire (Claire et l'obscurité)'' - 1991 *''

(Revoir Julie)'' - 1998 *''Lonesome Monsieur Turgeon (La solitude de Monsieur Turgeon)'' - 2001 *''La beauté du geste'' - 2004 *''Jouer Ponette'' - 2007 *''Suivre Catherine'' - 2008 *'' A Montreal Girl (La fille de Montréal)'' - 2010

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