Renée Beaulieu is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from

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, whose debut feature film ''

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(Le Garagiste)'' was released in 2015."Renée Beaulieu et Le garagiste: la liberté à tout prix"
'' La Presse'', November 2, 2015. Originally from

Trois-Pistoles Trois-Pistoles is a city in Les Basques Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It is also the county seat. The town is located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. A ferry crosses the river ...

, Quebec,"Renée Beaulieu: de pharmacienne à Garagiste"
'' La Presse'', October 30, 2015. Beaulieu worked as a pharmacist until deciding to leave her job and return to film school. She is now a professor of film studies at the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-de ...

. Her first screenplay, ''Le ring'', was directed by

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in 2007. She also later wrote and directed the short films ''Qui'', ''Coupable'' and ''Le Vide'' before making ''Le Garagiste'', whose central theme of a man coming to terms with his mortality while suffering from

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was inspired by one of her final clients as a pharmacist. Beaulieu was also the editor of ''Le Garagiste''. At the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016, she was a nominee for Best Editing."2016 Canadian Screen Awards nominees: ‘Rookie Blue,’ ‘Vikings,’ ‘Big Brother Canada’ nominated"

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, January 19, 2016.

Filmography

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(Le Garagiste)'' - 2015 *''

Les Salopes, or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin ''Les Salopes, or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin'' (french: Les salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Renée Beaulieu and released in 2018. The film stars Brigitte Poupart as Marie-Claire, a dermatol ...

'' - 2018 *''Inès'' - 2021

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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian women film directors Canadian women screenwriters Canadian film editors Film directors from Quebec Academic staff of the Université de Montréal People from Trois-Pistoles, Quebec Canadian women film editors French Quebecers {{Canada-film-director-stub