Mélanie Carrier (born 1979) is a

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documentary filmmaker from

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.Éric Moreault
"Mélanie Carrier et Olivier Higgins : Au cœur du plus vaste camp de réfugiés au monde"
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'', February 19, 2021. The cofounder with her husband Olivier Higgins of the production studio Mö Films, the duo concentrate primarily on films about the relationships of the world's

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with the wider world. The duo's first film '' Asiemut'', chronicling a bicycling trip they took in Asia, was released in 2006. They followed up in 2011 with the feature documentary ''Encounters (Rencontre)'', and the short documentary ''Ice Philosophy (L'homme de glace)''. Their 2013 film '' Québékoisie'' was a

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nominee for Best Documentary Film at 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 2019 they collaborated with photographer Renaud Philippe on '' Wandering: A Rohingya Story (Errance sans retour)'', a multimedia museum show and documentary film about the Rohingya crisis in

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. The film was a

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nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the

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, and a Prix Iris nominee for Best Documentary Film at the

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 tha ...

.Charles-Henri Ramond
"La déesse des mouches à feu en tête des nominations"
''Films du Québec'', April 26, 2021. Their documentary ''Deep Inside Humanity (Ce que le monde porte en soi)'' is in production for release in 2021 or 2022.Lauren Malyk
"Telefilm, Rogers support 16 documentaries"
'' Playback'', April 24, 2019.

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