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Martin Léon
Martin Léon (born April 26, 1966) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and composer from Quebec,Sarah Lévesque"Martin Léon: Clothing the Invisible" '' Words & Music'', September 9, 2016. most noted as a three-time winner of the Prix Jutra/Iris for Best Original Music. Background Originally from the Saint-Roch quarter of Quebec City,"La musique, trame de fond de la vie du compositeur Martin Léon" , November 10, 2017. he studied contemporary music at the |
Alex Nevsky (musician)
Alexandre Parent (born February 17, 1986, in Granby, Quebec, Canada), better known as Alex Nevsky, is a singer-songwriter from Quebec, Canada. He graduated from École nationale de la chanson in Granby in 2007. He participated in Festival international de la chanson de Granby (Granby International Song Festival) in 2009 reaching the semi-final. He also took part in the 14th Francouvertes contest where he was a finalist. He released his debut album ''De lune à l'aube'' in 2010 on Audiogram An audiogram is a graph that shows the audible threshold for standardized frequencies as measured by an audiometer. The Y axis represents intensity measured in decibels (dB) and the X axis represents frequency measured in hertz (Hz). The thresho .... The album received two nominations at the Gala ADISQ for "Revelation of the Year" and "Best Album of Year – Pop-Rock". He was also named "Révélation Radio-Canada Musique" for 2010–2011. On 30 August 2013, he launched his second album ''H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Loved Ones
''Our Loved Ones'' () is a 2015 Canadian drama film, directed by Anne Émond and starring Maxim Gaudette and Karelle Tremblay. The story centres on a family whose patriarch committed suicide in 1978, and explores the continuing emotional impact of his death on his now-adult son David (Gaudette) and David's daughter Laurence (Tremblay). The film was shot around Bas-Saint-Laurent. It received positive reviews and was nominated for seven Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Motion Picture. Plot In 1978, a young man named David returns to his home only to be told that his father has died of an apparent medical episode. David inherits his tools, and begins using them to make marionettes, eventually turning this hobby into a business. He raises a family, including a daughter named Laurence. Spoiling his daughter and keeping her happy, he even buys her a live turkey named Simone for Christmas, after Laurence was disappointed that the turkey she won when her mother entered her name into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Screen Awards
The Canadian Screen Awards () 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) productions. Given annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, the awards recognize excellence in cinematic achievements, as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The awards were first presented in 2013 as the result of a merger of the Gemini Awards and Genie Awards—the Academy's previous awards presentations for television (English-language) and film productions. They are widely considered to be the most prestigious award for Canadian entertainers, artists, and filmmakers, often referred to as the equivalent of the Academy Awards and Emmy Awards in the United States, the BAFTA Awards in the United Kingdom, the AACTA Awards in Australia, the IFTA Awards in Ireland, the César Awards in France and the Goya Awards in Spain. History The award's historic root ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Television
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcasting, public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952, with its main studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé. CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres, and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television providers, and live streamed on its CBC Gem video platform. Overview CBC Television provides a complete 24-hour network schedule of news, sports, entertainment, and children's programming; in most cases, it feeds the same programming at the exact local times nationwide, except to the Newfoundland Time Zone, where programs air 30 minutes "late". On October 9, 2006, at 6:00 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Screen Award For Best Original Score
An annual award for Best Achievement in Music - Original Score is presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian original score for the previous year. Prior to 2012, the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards; since 2012 it has been presented as part of the expanded Canadian Screen Awards. 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also * Prix Iris for Best Original Music The Prix Iris for Best Original Music () is an annual film award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris awards program, to honour the year's best music in films made within the Cinema of Quebec. Unlike some other film awards, which ... * References {{Canadian Screen Awards Film awards for best score Original Score ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
32nd Genie Awards
The 32nd Genie Awards ceremony was held on March 8, 2012 to honour films released in 2011."‘Café de Flore’, ‘A Dangerous Method’ lead Genie Awards race" . '''', January 17, 2012. Nominations were announced on January 17, 2012. The ceremony was originally scheduled to be hosted by Andrea Martin and George Stroumboulopoulos, but Martin was forced to cancel at the last minute due to a rescheduled acting commitment. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genie Awards
The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978), known as the "Etrog Awards" for sculptor Sorel Etrog, who designed its statuette. Genie Award candidates were selected from submissions made by the owners of Canadian films or their representatives, based on the criteria laid out in the ''Genie Rules and Regulations'' booklet which were distributed to Academy members and industry members. Peer-group juries, assembled from volunteer members of the Academy, met to watch the submissions and select a group of nominees. Academy members then voted on these nominations. In 2012, the Academy announced that the Genies would merge with its sister presentation for television, the Gemini Awards, to form a new award presentation, the Canadian Screen Awards. Broadcasting The Genie Awards were aired by CBC from 1980 to 2003, before m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Grizzli Sophie
''Lucy Grizzli Sophie'' is a Canadian thriller drama film, directed by Anne Émond and released in 2024. Adapted from Catherine-Anne Toupin's stage play ''La Meute'', the film stars Toupin as Sophie, a woman who is taking refuge from a violent incident in the city at a rural bed and breakfast run by Louise (Lise Roy) and her nephew Martin ( Guillaume Cyr). The cast also includes Marjorie Armstrong, Patrick Caux, Josée Laviolette and Mathias Retamal. The film premiered on February 21, 2024, as the opening film of the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, before opening commercially on February 23.Manon Dumais"L’ours et la poupée" ''La Presse is a French-language online newspaper published daily in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1884, it is now owned by an independent nonprofit trust. ' was formerly a broadsheet daily, considered a newspaper of record in Canada. Its Sunday edi ...'', February 23, 2024. References External links * 2024 films 2024 thriller films Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey (2023 Film)
''Harvey'' is a Canadian short animated film, directed by Janice Nadeau and released in 2023.Ramin Zahed"Director Janice Nadeau Pictures Loss Through a Child’s Eyes in ‘Harvey’" ''Animation Magazine'', June 16, 2023. Adapted from the Governor General's Literary Award-winning book of the same name, which was illustrated by Nadeau and written by Hervé Bouchard, the film centres on a young boy who is using his vivid imagination to cope with the death of his father. The film premiered at the 2023 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. The film received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards The 25th Quebec Cinema Awards were held on December 10, 2023, to honour achievements in the Cinema of Quebec in 2022 and 2023. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Will Remember Me
''You Will Remember Me'' () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Éric Tessier and released in 2020. Based on the theatrical play by François Archambault, the film stars Rémy Girard as Édouard Beauchemin, a successful academic who is beginning to suffer from the early stages of dementia. The film's premiere, originally slated for March 20, 2020, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. The film instead premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival The Sarajevo Film Festival is the premier and largest film festival in Southeast Europe, and is one of the largest film festivals in Europe. It was founded in Sarajevo in 1995 during the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian War, and brings internatio ... in August 2020. It was selected as the opening film of the 2022 Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival, its first actual screening in Quebec due to the pandemic-related disruptions of film distribution.Charles-Henri Ramond"Tu te souviendras de moi ouvrira le FCIAT" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Salinger Year
''My Salinger Year'' (also known as ''My New York Year'') is a 2020 drama film written and directed by Philippe Falardeau, based upon the memoir of the same name by Joanna Rakoff. It stars Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, Douglas Booth, Seána Kerslake, Colm Feore and Brían F. O'Byrne. The film had its world premiere at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival on February 20, 2020. It was released in Canada and the United States on March 5, 2021, by Mongrel Media and IFC Films, respectively, and in Ireland on May 21, 2021, by Vertigo Releasing. Plot In 1995, Joanna, an aspiring writer and poet, leaves her boyfriend Karl and her home in Berkeley, California to visit her friend in New York City. However, she soon moves there, where she takes a job at one of New York's oldest literary agencies. Unbeknownst to Joanna, the agency looks after the interests of the reclusive writer J. D. Salinger. She has not read any of Salinger's books, not even ''The Catcher in the Rye''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thanks For Everything (2019 Film)
''Thanks for Everything'' () is a 2019 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Louise Archambault. Her second film to be released in 2019 following '' And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux)'', the film stars Julie Perreault and Magalie Lépine-Blondeau as Christine and Marianne Cyr, two estranged sisters who reunite after the death of their father ( Gilbert Sicotte), and embark on a road trip to the Magdalen Islands The Magdalen Islands (, ) are a Canadian archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Since 2005, the 12-island archipelago is divided into two municipalities: the majority-francophone Municipality of Îles-de-la-Madeleine and the majority-angloph ... to scatter his ashes. The film's cast also includes Robin Aubert, Guy Nadon, Patrick Hivon, Jean-François Pichette, Aliocha Schneider and Sasha Migliarese. The film opened in theatres on December 25, 2019, and was the top-grossing Quebec film in its first week of release. It was nominated for two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
