Marc-Antoine Lemire (born 1990) is a

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film director."Marc-Antoine Lemire"
'' MediaQueer''. He is most noted for his 2017 short film '' Pre-Drink'', which won the

Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film The Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film, formerly also known as the National Film Board of Canada, NFB John Spotton Award, is an annual film award, presented by the Toronto International Film Festival to a film jud ...

at the

2017 Toronto International Film Festival The 42nd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 7 to 17 September 2017. There were fourteen programmes, with the Vanguard and City to City programmes both being retired from previous years, with the total number of films down b ...

, and the Prix Iris for best Fiction Short Film at the

20th Quebec Cinema Awards The 20th Quebec Cinema Awards ceremony was held on 3 June 2018 in Montreal, to recognize talent and achievement in the Cinema of Quebec. It was hosted by actresses Édith Cochrane and Guylaine Tremblay, who also jointly hosted the 2017 Prix Iris. ...

. A graduate of the film studies program at the

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, he won the Prix du meilleur espoir en cinéma documentaire in 2013 for his documentary film ''Ces trottoirs où nous marchons''. He made the short films ''Plaisirs de table'' (2012) and ''Joséphine, ou Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide'' (2013) before breaking through to wider attention with his 2015 short film ''

Inner Jellyfishes ''Inner Jellyfishes'' (french: Les Méduses) is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Marc-Antoine Lemire and released in 2015. The film stars Rudi Duperré as a young gay man struggling with feelings of isolation who hooks up with another ma ...

(Les Méduses)'', which screened at film festivals across Canada and internationally. In 2022, he released '' Mistral Spatial'', his full-length directorial debut.Charles-Henri Ramond
"Mistral spatial – Film de Marc-Antoine Lemire"
''Films du Québec'', January 12, 2023. He has also worked in the art department for other films as an art director and propmaster.

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