Pascal Plante is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from

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, whose debut feature film, ''

Fake Tattoos ''Fake Tattoos'' (french: Les faux tatouages) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Pascal Plante and released in 2017. The film stars Anthony Therrien as Theo, a young loner who meets and falls in love with Mag (Rose-Marie Perreault) at a rock co ...

(Les faux tatouages)'', premiered in 2017. He won the

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award for Best Canadian Screenplay at the

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, and the film's lead actress

Rose-Marie Perreault Rose-Marie Perreault is a Canadian actress. She is most noted for her performance in the film ''Fake Tattoos (Les Faux tatouages)'', for which she received a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018, ...

received a

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in 2018, and a

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nomination for

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at the

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in 2019. His second feature film ''

Nadia, Butterfly ''Nadia, Butterfly'' is a 2020 Canadian sports drama film, directed by Pascal Plante and released in 2020. The film stars Katerine Savard as Nadia, an Olympic swimmer struggling to redefine her life after retiring from the sport at the conclus ...

'' was announced as an official selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.Gregory Strong
"Canada's Plante humbled by Cannes selection for film 'Nadia, Butterfly'"

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, June 4, 2020. Plante is a former competitive swimmer who tried out, but did not qualify, to represent Canada at the

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, and subsequently studied film at

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Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, a division of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University, is a film school located in Montreal, Quebec. Informally known as MHSoC, the school accepts around 250 students a year for programs in animati ...

.Renée Dunk
"Film students strut their stuff"

, May 10, 2011. He has also directed the short films ''La fleur de l'âge'', ''Je suis un château de sable qui attend la mer'', ''Baby Blues'', ''Drum de marde!'', ''Blue-Eyed Blonde'', ''Nonna'' and ''Blast Beat'', and has worked as a sound mixer and editor on other film projects.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Plante, Pascal 21st-century Canadian screenwriters 21st-century Canadian male writers Canadian male screenwriters Canadian screenwriters in French Film directors from Quebec Writers from Quebec French Quebecers Living people Concordia University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)