Albéric Aurtenèche is a Canadian film director. [1] He is most noted for his short film Opening Up (M'ouvrir), which won the Jutra Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 13th Jutra Awards in 2011. [2]
Born in Paris, France and raised in Montreal, Quebec, he studied film at Concordia University. In addition to Opening Up, he has also directed the short films Non-lieu (2006), L'appel du vide (2008), Sigismond sans images (2016) and Que votre empire s'étende (2019).
His debut feature film, La Contemplation du mystère , entered production in 2019, [3] and was longlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Discovery Award in 2020. [4]
Jean-Marc Vallée was a Canadian filmmaker, film editor, and screenwriter. After studying film at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Vallée went on to make a number of critically acclaimed short films, including Stéréotypes (1991), Les Fleurs magiques (1995), and Les Mots magiques (1998).
The John Dunning Best First Feature Award is a special Canadian film award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the year's best feature film by a first-time film director. Under the earlier names Claude Jutra Award and Canadian Screen Award for Best First Feature, the award has been presented since the 14th Genie Awards in 1993.
Patrick Huard is a Canadian actor, writer and comedian from Quebec.
Daniel Grou, frequently credited as Podz, is a Canadian film and television director, director of six feature films as well as episodes in dozen TV series.
Kevin Patrick Mills is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and actor, whose feature film debut Guidance was released in 2015.
Jeffrey St. Jules is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, who won the Claude Jutra Award in 2015 for his debut feature film Bang Bang Baby. The film also won the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
Chloé Leriche is a Canadian film director from Montreal, Quebec. Her debut feature film, Before the Streets , received six Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, including Best Picture and a nod for Leriche as Best Director.
The Prix Iris for Best Film is an annual film award presented Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the year's best film made within the Cinema of Quebec.
Ara Ball is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. He is most noted as a two-time Prix Jutra/Prix Iris nominee for Best Live Action Short Film, receiving nominations at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014 for Hurricane Boy Fuck You Tabarnak! , and at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2016 for The Pedophile .
Kaveh Nabatian is an Iranian-Canadian musician and film director, known as a trumpeter and keyboardist with the Juno Award winning orchestral post-rock band Bell Orchestre.
The Prix Iris for Best Documentary Film is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the year's best documentary film made within the cinema of Quebec.
The Prix Iris for Best Makeup is an annual film award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris awards program, to honour the year's best makeup work in films made within the Cinema of Quebec.
Rafaël Ouellet is a Canadian screenwriter and film director from Dégelis, Quebec. He is most noted for his 2012 film Camion, for which he received Jutra Award nominations for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editing at the 15th Jutra Awards in 2013.
Jean-Philippe Duval is a Canadian film and television director from Quebec City, Quebec. He is most noted for his 1999 films Matroni and Me , for which he received Jutra Award nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 2nd Jutra Awards, and a Genie Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 20th Genie Awards, and his 2009 film Through the Mist , which received Jutra nominations for both Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 12th Jutra Awards.
The Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award is an annual Canadian award, presented by the Directors Guild of Canada to honour works by emerging filmmakers.
Sophie Goyette is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She is most noted for her 2012 short film The Near Future , which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards, and a Prix Jutra nominee for Best Short Film at the 15th Jutra Awards.
Mélanie Carrier is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Quebec. 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 indigenous peoples with the wider world.
La Contemplation du mystère is a Canadian drama film, directed by Albéric Aurtenèche and released in 2021. The film stars Emmanuel Schwartz as Éloi, a man who is returning to his small hometown in Quebec to partake in a group ritual commemorating his father's death in a hunting accident a year earlier, only to end up using psychedelic drugs such as DMT and ayahuasca in his quest to understand the event's meaning in his life.
Félix Dufour-Laperrière is a Canadian animator, film director and screenwriter from Chicoutimi, Quebec. He is most noted for his 2021 film Archipelago (Archipel), which was the winner of the Prix Luc-Perreault from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma at the 2022 Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma.
Winston DeGiobbi is a Canadian film director from New Waterford, Nova Scotia. He is most noted for his feature debut Mass for Shut-Ins, which was shortlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Discovery Award in 2017, and for the Vancouver Film Critics Circle's One to Watch Award at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017.