Édith Jorisch is a Canadian filmmaker from

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 ...

.Odile Tremblay
"Mémoire de tableau"
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'', April 27, 2013. She is most noted for her films ''The Heir (L'héritier)'', which won a

Prix Gémeaux The Prix Gémeaux () or Gémeaux Awards honour achievements in Canadian television and digital media that is broadcast in French. It has been sponsored by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television since 1987. Introduced as a French-language equ ...

in 2017 and the Michael Moskovitz Award for a Film from the Joseph Isaac Segal Awards for Jewish Literature in 2018, and '' Mothers and Monsters'', which was named to the

Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a permane ...

's annual year-end

Canada's Top Ten Canada's Top Ten is an annual honour, compiled by the Toronto International Film Festival and announced in December each year to identify and promote the year's best Canadian films."Canada's Top Ten awards will honour excellence in Canadian cinema" ...

list in 2023.Pat Mullen
"TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten Includes BlackBerry, Solo, Humanist Vampire"
''That Shelf'', December 6, 2023. She is the daughter of artist and illustrator

Stéphane Jorisch Stéphane Jorisch is a Canadian artist and illustrator. He is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration(once in 1993 for ''Le Monde selon Jean de ...'' and in 1999 for ''Charlotte et l'île du des ...

, and an alumna of the

Université du Québec à Montréal The Université du Québec à Montréal (English: University of Quebec in Montreal), also known as UQAM, is a French-language public university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québe ...

Filmography

*''Les Interdits'' - 2011 *''The Heir (L'héritier)'' - 2016 *''Awe'' - 2019 *''Tibbits Hill'' - 2021 *''Plastisapiens'' - 2022 *'' Mothers and Monsters'' - 2023

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* Canadian women film directors Film directors from Quebec Jewish film people Université du Québec à Montréal alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-film-director-stub