Events from the year 2004 in France.
Élise Guilbault is a Canadian film and television actress. She won the Genie Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Woman Who Drinks , and was a nominee for Cap Tourmente. She also starred in several later films by The Woman Who Drinks director Bernard Émond, also appearing in The Novena , The Legacy and A Place to Live .
Events from the year 1967 in France.
Benoît Pilon is a francophone Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative films and documentaries on the human condition. He is also the co-founder of "Les Films de l'autre" productions, which produces, promotes and helps the development of independent films throughout North America.
Bernard Émond is a Québecois and Canadian director, screenwriter, novelist and essayist working in the French-language. He studied anthropology at university and lived for several years in the Canadian north where he worked for the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation. He began his film career making documentaries, later moving to feature-length films, all of which have been shot in Quebec. He is noted for the humanistic, sometimes spiritual depth of his films, in particular his trilogy of feature films based on the three Christian virtues, faith, hope, and charity. Other themes in his work include human dignity and frailty, and cultural loss. He describes himself as an agnostic and a "conservative socialist."
Lux Éditeur is a Québécoise publishing house, based in Montréal, specialising in the history of the Americas and left-libertarian politics. Its works are distributed by Harmonia Mundi in Europe and Flammarion in Canada.
Anne Émond is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, currently based in Montreal, Quebec.
All That You Possess is a Canadian drama film, released in 2012. Written and directed by Bernard Émond, the film stars Patrick Drolet as Pierre Leduc, a doctoral student and university lecturer in Quebec City who dreams of abandoning his academic career to translate the poetry of Edward Stachura.
The Woman Who Drinks is a Canadian drama film, released in 2001. Written and directed by Bernard Émond, the film stars Élise Guilbault as a woman struggling with alcoholism.
Nelly is a 2016 Canadian biographical-drama film directed by Anne Émond and starring Mylène Mackay as Nelly Arcan, an award-winning Canadian author and former sex worker who committed suicide in 2009. The film is based on some of Arcan's own writings, including her book Putain.
Summit Circle is a 2007 French-Canadian feature from Bernard Émond. The second in his trilogy of films on the Christian virtues of faith, hope and charity, which began with The Novena in 2005 and concluded with The Legacy in 2009. It was screened at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.
A Place to Live is a Canadian drama film, directed by Bernard Émond and released in 2018. The film stars Élise Guilbault as Monique, a recently widowed woman who, while visiting her adult children in Montreal, decides to return to her childhood hometown of Verner, Ontario for the first time in many years.
The Novena is a Canadian drama film, directed by Bernard Émond and released in 2005.
Jean-Bernard Émond is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Richelieu as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec. Emond is a businessman who co-managed a family printing company in Sorel-Tracy. He is a founding member of the Coalition Avenir Québec.
Catherine Martin is a Canadian screenwriter and film director.
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