Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais

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Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais
Nationality Canadian
Occupation(s)filmmaker, screenwriter and actor
Known for Whitewash

Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, who won the Claude Jutra Award in 2014 for his film Whitewash . [1] He also won the award for Best New Narrative Director at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, [2] and was a shortlisted nominee, with cowriter Marc Tulin, for Best Original Screenplay at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards.

Previously an actor, whose credits include supporting roles in The Reagans , The Day After Tomorrow and Mars and April , Hoss-Desmarais has also worked in advertising as a commercial director, [3] and directed the short films Table 13 and Marius Borodine .

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References

  1. ↑ "Le Claude-Jutra à Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais". Le Devoir . January 23, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Canadian wins best new narrative director prize at Tribeca". CBC News, April 26, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Le prix Claude-Jutra 2014 remis à Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais". Cinoche, January 22, 2014.
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