Sébastien Pilote (born 1973 in Saint-Ambroise,

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

)"Sébastien Pilote: Chicoutimi et le Sundance Kid"
'' La Presse'', December 28, 2010. is a

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

film director and screenwriter. He was a

Canadian Screen Award The Canadian Screen Awards (french: link=no, Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media ( web series ...

nominee for Best Director and

Best Original Screenplay The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the ...

at the

2nd Canadian Screen Awards The 2nd Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 9, 2014, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2013.The Dismantling ''The Dismantling'' (french: Le Démantèlement), also released in the United States under the title ''The Auction'', is a 2013 Canadian drama film written and directed by Sébastien Pilote. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema sec ...

(Le Démantèlement)''. He previously directed the short film ''Dust Bowl Ha! Ha!'' in 2007, and the feature film '' The Salesman'' in 2011, and has worked for

Télé-Québec The Société de télédiffusion du Québec (; en, Quebec Television Broadcasting Corporation), branded as Télé-Québec (), is a Canadian French-language public educational television network in the province of Quebec. It is a provincial Cro ...

. In 2014 he was the patron and curator of the Festival Vues dans la tête de... film festival in

Rivière-du-Loup Rivière-du-Loup (; 2021 population 20,118) is a small city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the judicial district of Kamouraska. Its one of ...

.Hugues Albert
"Vues dans la tête de… Sébastien Pilote"
''Infodimanche'', January 18, 2014.

Filmography

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* 1973 births Film directors from Quebec Canadian screenwriters in French Writers from Quebec People from Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Living people {{Canada-film-director-stub