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Daniel Roby (born October 25, 1970, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and cinematographer. [1] An alumnus of the film programs at Concordia University and the University of Southern California, he worked as a camera operator and cinematographer on numerous film and television projects before releasing his own directorial debut, White Skin (La Peau blanche), in 2004.

White Skin won the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, [2] and the Claude Jutra Award for best feature film by a first-time director at the 25th Genie Awards. [3]

Roby's second film as a director, Funkytown , premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010 before going into general release in 2011. [4] His third film, Louis Cyr , was released in 2013, going on to win nine Jutra Awards in 2014 including Best Film.

Throughout 2015, he directed three episodes of Versailles, Canal+'s $45-million budget production covering the life of Louis XIV. [5]

His fourth film, Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume), was released in 2018. [6] It received eight Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019, including Best Picture and a nod for Roby as Best Director. [7]

Most Wanted , dramatizing an incident from the career of real-life journalist Victor Malarek, was released in 2020. [8] In 2022 he directed the third season of TV series La Faille . [9]

In 2023 he was announced as the director of Villeneuve, a forthcoming biopic of Canadian auto racing driver Gilles Villeneuve. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Daniel Roby Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine at the Toronto International Film Festival's Canadian Film Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ "Hotel Rwanda wins top festival prize". The Globe and Mail , September 20, 2004.
  3. ↑ Claude Jutra Award, The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  4. ↑ "Quebec filmmakers take viewers to Funkytown of '70s Montreal". Vancouver Sun , March 4, 2011.
  5. ↑ Maxime Demers, "Un réalisateur québécois à la barre de la série Versailles". Le Journal de Montréal , November 3, 2014.
  6. ↑ "'Just a Breath Away' ('Dans la brume'): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter . April 9, 2018.
  7. ↑ Duchesne, André (March 31, 2019). "Cinq prix Écrans canadiens à La grande noirceur". La Presse (in French). Retrieved March 31, 2019.
  8. ↑ Dino-Ray Ramos, "Saban Films Acquires Crime Thriller ‘Most Wanted’ Starring Josh Hartnett". Deadline Hollywood , April 9, 2020.
  9. ↑ Dumas, Hugo (November 16, 2022). "La faille 3 | De si bons moines ?" [Flaw 3 | Such Good Monks?]. La Presse (in French). ISSN   0317-9249. OCLC   299333147 . Retrieved November 22, 2022.
  10. ↑ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Rémi Goulet et Rosalie Bonenfant dans le biopic Villeneuve". Films du Québec, May 11, 2023.
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