''White Skin'' (french: La Peau blanche) is a 2004 Canadian
horror film directed by
Daniel Roby and starring Marc Paquet and
Marianne Farley. It was released on video in the United States under the title ''Cannibal''. The film won the award for
Best Canadian First Feature Film at the
2004 Toronto International Film Festival
The 29th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 9 through September 18. The festival screened 328 films of which 253 were features and 75 were shorts (148 of the films screened were in a language other than English).
Awards
No fi ...
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["Hotel Rwanda wins top festival prize". '']The Globe and Mail
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'', September 20, 2004. and the
Claude Jutra Award
The John Dunning Best First Feature Award is a special Canadian film award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the year's best feature film by a first-time film director. Under the earlier names Claude Jutra Award and Ca ...
for best feature film by a first-time director at the
25th Genie Awards
The 25th Genie Awards were held on March 21, 2005 to honour the best Canada, Canadian films released in 2004.Jay Stone, "Big, small get Genie nods". ''Kingston Whig-Standard'', February 9, 2005. The awards took place at the Metro Toronto Conventi ...
.
[Claude Jutra Award]
The Canadian Encyclopedia
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Available f ...
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Premise
Two men discover that one's girlfriend is a
succubus
A succubus is a demon or supernatural entity in folklore, in female form, that appears in dreams to seduce men, usually through sexual activity. According to religious tradition, a succubus needs male semen to survive; repeated sexual activi ...
that needs to feed on human flesh.
Cast
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Marc Paquet – Thierry Richard
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Marianne Farley – Claire Lefrançois
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* – Marquise Lefrançois
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Julie LeBreton – Isabel Lefrançois
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Lise Roy – Diane Lefrançois
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Jou Jou Turenne – Marie-Pierre Janvier
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Raymond Cloutier
Raymond is a male given name. It was borrowed into English from French (older French spellings were Reimund and Raimund, whereas the modern English and French spellings are identical). It originated as the Germanic ᚱᚨᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ ( ...
– Professor Théoret
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Marcel Sabourin
Marcel Sabourin, OC (born March 25, 1935) is a Canadian actor and writer from Quebec.Gaetan Charlebois and Anne Nothof"Sabourin, Marcel" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', October 20, 2015. He is most noted for his role as Abel Gagné, the centra ...
– Dr. Paul-Émile Gagnon
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Jude Antoine Jarda – Eddy
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Anna Beaupré Moulounda – Sandra
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Isabelle Guérard – Manon the prostitute
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Fayolle Jean – Haiti spokesman
References
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2004 films
Canadian vampire films
2004 horror films
2000s French-language films
Best First Feature Genie and Canadian Screen Award-winning films
Films directed by Daniel Roby
Films shot in Montreal
2004 directorial debut films
French-language Canadian films
2000s Canadian films
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