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Éloi Painchaud
Éloi Painchaud is a Canadian musician from Quebec, best known as a member of the bands Okoumé and Salebarbes with his brother Jonathan Painchaud. He has also been a composer of music for film. Alongside the band Les Colocs, he won a Prix Jutra for Best Original Music at the 12th Jutra Awards in 2010 for '' Through the Mist (Dédé à travers les brumes)'', and he was the co-writer with his wife Jorane of " L'hymne", sung by Fred Pellerin and Céline Dion for the film '' Snowtime! (La guerre des tuques 3D)''. He has been a Prix Jutra/Iris nominee for Best Original Music on two other occasions, receiving nods at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021 for ''Target Number One ''Target Number One'' (released as ''Most Wanted'' in the United States, ''Suspect numéro un'' in Quebec) is a 2020 Canadian crime drama film directed by Daniel Roby.Dino-Ray Ramos"Saban Films Acquires Crime Thriller ‘Most Wanted’ Starring J ...'' with Jorane and Jean-Phi Goncalves, and at the 24th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Céline Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion (born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer. Referred to as the " Queen of Power Ballads", Dion's powerful, technically skilled vocals and commercially successful works have had a significant impact on popular music. Born into a large family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion was discovered by her future manager and husband, René Angélil, and emerged as a teen star in her home country with a series of French-language albums during the 1980s. She gained international recognition by winning the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest, where she represented Switzerland with the song " Ne partez pas sans moi". Dion went on to release twelve English-language albums. '' The Colour of My Love'' (1993), '' Falling into You'' (1996), ''Let's Talk About Love'' (1997), and '' All the Way... A Decade of Song'' (1999) all rank among the best-selling albums of all time. Her catalog of high-charting tracks includes "Beauty and the Beast", " The Power of Love", " Think Tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musicians From Quebec
A musician is someone who composes, conducts, or performs music. According to the United States Employment Service, "musician" is a general term used to designate a person who follows music as a profession. Musicians include songwriters, who write both music and lyrics for songs; conductors, who direct a musical performance; and performers, who perform for an audience. A music performer is generally either a singer (also known as a vocalist), who provides vocals, or an instrumentalist, who plays a musical instrument. Musicians may perform on their own or as part of a group, band or orchestra. Musicians can specialize in a musical genre, though many play a variety of different styles and blend or cross said genres, a musician's musical output depending on a variety of technical and other background influences including their culture, skillset, life experience, education, and creative preferences. A musician who records and releases music is often referred to as a recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Songwriters
Canadians () 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 their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Time Thief
''The Time Thief'' () is a 2021 Canadian period drama and fantasy film directed by Francis Leclerc, based on the 2009 story by Fred Pellerin of the same name. It stars Jade Charbonneau, Marc Messier, Céline Bonnier, Guillaume Cyr, Émile Proulx-Cloutier, Marie-Ève Beauregard, Pier-Luc Funk, Sonia Cordeau, and Geneviève Schmidt. The film was theatrically released by Les Films Séville on November 19, 2021. Premise An illness-worn grandmother tries to convince her 11-year-old grandson that death does not exist. She tells him about the adventures of her youth in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, in 1927, when she had tried to eliminate death in the village. Cast * Jade Charbonneau as a young Bernadette ** Michèle Deslauriers as an older Bernadette * Marc Messier as Méo, a barber * Céline Bonnier as La Stroop * Guillaume Cyr as Riopel, a blacksmith, and father of Lurette * Émile Proulx-Cloutier as Toussaint Brodeur, a merchant and Jeannette's husband * Marie-Ève Beauregard as Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
24th Quebec Cinema Awards
The 24th Quebec Cinema Awards were held on June 5, 2022, to honour achievements in the Cinema of Quebec in 2021. The ceremony was hosted by actress Geneviève Schmidt. '' Drunken Birds (Les oiseaux ivres)'' and ''Maria Chapdelaine'' initially received sixteen nominations each, tying the record for most nominations. '' Aline'', a biopic inspired by the life of Celine Dion, initially received eight nominations, but due to it being a majority French production, it was deemed ineligible for the Most Successful Film Outside Quebec and the Public Prize awards and was removed from the final voting list. New nominations were announced, with ''Old Buddies (Les vieux chums)'' being nominated for the Public Prize while '' Drunken Birds (Les oiseaux ivres)'' was nominated for Most Successful Film Outside Quebec, bringing its total to seventeen nominations, a new record. '' Drunken Birds (Les oiseaux ivres)'' swept the ceremony with ten awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Phi Goncalves
Jean-Philippe "Jean-Phi" Goncalves (born c. 1978)Charpentier, Lorraine. “Bêtes de scène >> Montreal’s Beast pairs a famous singer with a beatsmith to the stars”, ''Montreal Mirror'', Mar 13 - Mar 19, 2008, Vol. 23 No. 38 Retrieved Nov 5, 2008 The musician was particularly busy at the 2005 ''Festival de Musique Émergente'' (FME)—an annual new music festival held in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. During the festival he performed on 3 consecutive days for Afrodizz, Plaster and Dan Thouin respectively, causing one reporter to christen him "the star of the FME".Robillard Laveaux, Olivier. "Retour FME", ''Voir'', Sep 8, 2005 French text) Retrieved Nov 8, 2008 Plaster Plaster was formed in 2001 by Goncalves and keyboardist Alex McMahon; a year l ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Target Number One
''Target Number One'' (released as ''Most Wanted'' in the United States, ''Suspect numéro un'' in Quebec) is a 2020 Canadian crime drama film directed by Daniel Roby.Dino-Ray Ramos"Saban Films Acquires Crime Thriller ‘Most Wanted’ Starring Josh Hartnett" ''Deadline Hollywood'', April 9, 2020. Based on the true story of Alain Olivier, a Canadian drug addict from Quebec who spent eight years in prison in Thailand in the 1980s after having been set up as an unwitting pawn in an espionage plot by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the film stars Josh Hartnett as Canadian investigative journalist Victor Malarek, investigating the arrest of drug addict Daniel Léger (Antoine Olivier Pilon). The film's cast also includes Jim Gaffigan, Stephen McHattie, Don McKellar, J.C. MacKenzie, and Amanda Crew. The film was theatrically released in Canada on July 10, 2020,Chris Knight"Target Number One is a rough-and-ready feature length Heritage Minute" ''National Post'', July 10, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
23rd Quebec Cinema Awards
The 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards were held on June 6, 2021, to honour achievements in the Cinema of Quebec in 2020. A live gala was hosted by actress Geneviève Schmidt; due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, however, it was staged differently than a traditional award gala, with nominees present in the theatre but seated in a way that maintained social distancing requirements. The awards were initially numbered as the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards gala, despite being the 23rd time the awards have been presented overall, as the presentation of the 2020 awards was done by livestream instead of a traditional award ceremony; however, the awards in 2022 were numbered as the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards instead of the 23rd, indicating that the 2021 awards are now considered the 23rd. In light of the effects that the pandemic had on film distribution in 2020, the organization did not limit its public-voted Prix Public to the five most commercially successful films of the year, but simply list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SOCAN
The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is a Canadian performance rights organization that represents the performing rights of more than 175,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers. The organization collects license fees through a music licensing program approved by the Copyright Board of Canada. History SOCAN is a result of a merger that took place in 1990 between the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada (CAPAC) and the Performing Rights Organization of Canada (PROCAN). In 2013, Front Row Insurance Brokers Inc. initiated an online musical instrument insurance program for members of various Canadian music associations, including SOCAN. In May 2016, SOCAN acquired the Seattle-based company Medianet Digital for an undisclosed amount; the organization planned to leverage the company's software and database of rights metadata to assist in the calculation and distribution of royalties for works on digital music streaming se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
