Félix Dufour-Laperrière (born 1981) is a Canadian animator, film director and screenwriter from
Chicoutimi
Chicoutimi ( , ) is the most populous borough (arrondissement) of the city of Saguenay in Quebec, Canada.
It is situated at the confluence of the Saguenay and Chicoutimi rivers. During the 20th century, it became the main administrative and ...
,
Quebec
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. He is most noted for his 2021 film ''
Archipelago
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(Archipel)'', which was the winner of the
Prix Luc-Perreault The Prix Luc-Perreault, formerly known as the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson, is an annual Canadian film award, presented by the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma to a film deemed to be the best film of the year from Quebec, from among th ...
from the
Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma
The Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma (AQCC) is a Canadian organization of film critics from Quebec.
Formed in 1973, the organization currently presents two annual awards: the Prix Luc-Perreault for best Quebec film of the year and ...
at the 2022
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma
The Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (formerly known as Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois) is a festival created in 1982 to celebrate the cinematographic production of Quebec, Canada.
The goal of the festival is to promote the Cinema of Quebec and i ...
.
He also received two
Prix Iris
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nominations for the film at the
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 rec ...
in 2022, for Best Documentary Film and Best Editing in a Documentary.
Dufour made a number of short films before releasing his debut feature documentary film, ''Transatlantic (Transatlantique)'', in 2014. He was a four-time
Jutra Award Jutras may have several meanings :
* Claude Jutra: an award-winning French Canadian filmmaker
**Jutra Award: Film awards formerly given in the Canadian province of Quebec, named after the filmmaker and now known as Prix Iris
**The Claude Jutra Awa ...
nominee for
Best Animated Short Film
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, receiving nods at the
6th Jutra Awards The 6th Jutra Awards were held on February 22, 2004 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2003.
in 2004 for ''
Black Ink on Blue Sky
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(Encre noire sur fond d'azur)'', the
11th Jutra Awards
The 11th Jutra Awards were held on March 29, 2009 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2008. Nominations were announced on February 17.Rosa Rosa'', the
12th Jutra Awards The 12th Jutra Awards were held on March 28, 2010 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2009. The nominees were announced on February 16.M'', and the
16th Jutra Awards The 16th Prix Jutra ceremony was held on March 23, 2014 at the Monument-National theatre in Montreal, Quebec, to honour achievements in the Cinema of Quebec in 2013. Nominations were announced in January.Éric Moreault"Prix Jutra: Louis Cyr champi ...
in 2014 for ''
The Day Is Listening
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(Le jour nous écoute)''.
His narrative feature debut, ''
Ville Neuve
''Ville Neuve'' is a Canadian animated drama film, directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrière and released in 2018. Using traditional animation, ink on paper animation, the film stars Robert Lalonde and Johanne-Marie Tremblay as Joseph and Emma, a divor ...
'', was a nominee for the
DGC Discovery Award DGC can refer to:
Businesses and organizations
* Darlton Gliding Club, Nottinghamshire, England
* Daybreak Game Company, an American video game developer
* Delhi Golf Club, Delhi, India
* Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chronometrie, a German organiz ...
in 2018.
He is the brother of producer
Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière
Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière is a Canadian film producer from Quebec. The brother of film director Félix Dufour-Laperrière, with whom he cofounded the studio Embuscade Films, he is most noted as producer of Éléonore Goldberg's short film ''Hibis ...