The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec. Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra, but Jutra's name was withdrawn from the awards following the publication of Yves Lever's biography of Jutra, which alleged that he had sexually abused children.
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Achievement in Cinematography, to honour the best Canadian film cinematography.
Resurrecting Hassan is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Carlo Guillermo Proto and released in 2016. The documentary centres on the Hartings, a family of blind musicians in Montreal who supported themselves by busking in the Guy-Concordia station of the Montreal Metro.
Manic is a 2017 Canadian documentary film directed by Kalina Bertin. The film depicts Bertin's efforts, in response to a family history of bipolar disorder, to investigate parts of her father's prior life in Montserrat that she did not know about; she ultimately uncovers the revelations that her father was a cult leader who also suffered from bipolar disorder, and who had, unbeknownst to Bertin until making the film, also fathered at least 12 other children with four other women.
Nicolas Bolduc is a Canadian cinematographer from Montreal, Quebec. He won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography two years in a row, in the 1st Canadian Screen Awards and 2nd Canadian Screen Awards, for War Witch (2012) and Enemy (2013). He also won the Jutra Award for War Witch, and was nominated the next year for Louis Cyr. Bolduc was nominated for Best Cinematography at the Prix Iris in 2017 for Two Lovers and a Bear.
Nicolas Canniccioni is a Canadian cinematographer.
Sara Mishara is an American-Canadian cinematographer. She has been a three-time Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Cinematography at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 for her work on the film The Great Darkened Days , at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for Drunken Birds , and at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023 for Viking.
Alexander Odyssey is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Pedro Pires and released in 2019. The film premiered at the Quebec City Film Festival on September 15, 2019, before premiering commercially on September 20.
A Woman, My Mother is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Claude Demers and released in 2019. The film documents Demers's efforts to learn more about his birth mother, who gave him up for adoption but later died before Demers ever had the opportunity to meet her as an adult, leaving him with many gaps in his understanding that he could fill in only with imaginative speculation.
The Prix Iris for Best Cinematography is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of the Prix Iris awards program, to honour the year's best cinematography in the Cinema of Quebec.
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 Cinematography in a Documentary is an annual film award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris awards program, to honour the year's best cinematography in documentary films made within the Cinema of Quebec.
Prayer for a Lost Mitten is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jean-François Lesage and released in 2020. The film centres on the lost and found office of the Montreal Metro system.
Call Me Human is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Kim O'Bomsawin and released in 2020. The film is a portrait of Innu poet Joséphine Bacon.
Wandering: A Rohingya Story is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Mélanie Carrier and Olivier Higgins and released in 2020. The film is a portrait of the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, which houses a large number of refugees from the Rohingya conflict in Myanmar.
Glauco Bermudez is a Mexican Canadian cinematographer. He is most noted for his work on the 2016 film Before the Streets , for which he was nominated for both the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography and the Prix Iris for Best Cinematography, and the 2020 film Influence, for which he was nominated for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary.
Olivier Higgins is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Quebec. The cofounder with his wife Mélanie Carrier 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.
Geographies of Solitude is a Canadian documentary film by Jacquelyn Mills that was released in 2022. The film is guided by Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who lives on Nova Scotia's Sable Island, where she catalogues the island's wild Sable Island horses, and endeavours to preserve its unique ecosystem.
Léna Mill-Reuillard is a Canadian cinematographer and photographer. She is most noted as a two-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Cinematography in a Documentary, receiving nods at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 for Welcome to F.L. and at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020 for City Dreamers, and a Prix Iris nominee for Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022 for Sisterhood .
Pedro Ruiz is a Venezuelan Canadian filmmaker based in Montreal, Quebec. He is most noted for his 2019 film Havana, from on High , for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards, and received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards.
