Érik Canuel (January 21, 1961 – June 15, 2024)
was a Canadian film and television director from
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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.
Canuel, the son of actor
Yvan Canuel, began his career in the mid-1980s making music videos for such artists as
Paul Piché,
Sass Jordan,
Norman Iceberg,
Vilain Pingouin and
Sylvain Cossette. After shooting a number of TV commercials, several of them award-winners, he worked as a director on the television series ''Big Wolf on Campus'', for the
Fox network, and ''The Hunger'', broadcast on Showtime and
The Movie Network
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Launched in 1983 as the national service ...
.
In 2000, his
IMAX
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film ''
Hemingway: A Portrait'' won a
Genie Award for best short documentary, as well as the Maximum Image Award for best 2D film at the
Miami
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Aventura Imax Days. Canuel also directed ''Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher'' in 2000, ''
The Pig's Law (La Loi du cochon)'' in 2001, ''
Red Nose (Nez rouge)'' in 2003, ''
The Last Tunnel (Le Dernier Tunnel)'' in 2004, ''
The Outlander (Le Survenant)'' in 2005. His best-known film was the bilingual English-French comedy ''
Bon Cop, Bad Cop'' in 2006, about a
francophone
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detective and an
anglophone detective forced to work together on a case.
[ This film received numerous nominations and awards.
In 2010, Canuel directed the episode "Fa la Erica" (season 3, ep. 11) of the TV series '' Being Erica''. In 2016, he directed a segment of the collective film '' 9 (9, le film)''.
In 2020, Canuel directed the last four episodes entitled " Collapse", " Orphans", " Relapse" and " The Only Way Out Is Through" of the first season of the TV series '' Transplant''.
He often made cameo appearances in his own films.
Canuel died of plasma cell leukemia on June 15, 2024, at the age of 63.]
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1961 births
2024 deaths
Canadian television directors
Directors of Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners for Best Short Documentary Film
Film directors from Montreal
Canadian Comedy Award winners
Canadian music video directors
Television commercial directors
Deaths from leukemia in Canada
Deaths from lymphocytic leukemia
Canadian comedy film directors