Gabriel Pelletier

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Gabriel Pelletier (born 1958 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film and television director. [1] He is best known for his 1996 film Karmina , for which he was a Genie Award nominee for Best Screenplay and Best Director at the 18th Genie Awards in 1997. [2]

His other credits have included the films L'Automne sauvage , Life After Love (La Vie après l'amour), [3] My Aunt Aline , [4] Shadows of the Past , Karmina 2 [5] and Fear of Water (La Peur de l'eau), [6] and episodes of the television series War of the Worlds , Sirens , Emily of New Moon and The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne . He has also directed music videos for Luc de Larochellière, Richard Séguin, Pierre Flynn, Marie-Denise Pelletier, René Simard and Daniel Lavoie.

In 2014, he signed to direct a film adaptation of Robert Girardi's 1997 novel Vaporetto 13 . [7]

References

  1. ↑ "World prize for Quebec film". Halifax Daily News , March 28, 1997.
  2. ↑ "Egoyan film tops Genie nominations". Vancouver Sun , November 5, 1997.
  3. ↑ "Blockbuster blunders: High-profile flops abound this summer, which is good for Quebec films". Montreal Gazette , July 17, 2000.
  4. ↑ "'Comedy' about aging in Quebec gets real old, real fast"]. Montreal Gazette , July 20, 2007.
  5. ↑ "Karmina: the sequel". Montreal Gazette , December 16, 2000.
  6. ↑ "Whodunit pits big-city cop, SQ bumblers". Montreal Gazette , January 27, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Gabriel Pelletier adaptera Vaporetto 13". La Presse , June 9, 2014.
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