Isabelle Stachtchenko is a Canadian cinematographer, [1] most noted for her work on the 2024 film Universal Language . [2]
She began her career in the early 2010s, working on short films and music videos until gaining her first major feature film credit on Sophie Bédard Marcotte's Winter Claire (Claire l'hiver). [3] Her subsequent credits have included The Greatest Country in the World (Le Meilleur pays du monde), [1] L.A. Tea Time , [4] This House (Cette maison), [5] How to Get Your Parents to Divorce (Pas d'chicane dans ma cabane!), [6] Summer of 2000 (Été 2000) and Afterwards (Après-coups).
In 2020 she was one of the creators of Anthologie 2020, a short documentary "chain letter" film about the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec which was screened at the 2021 Festival du nouveau cinéma. [7]
Gilles Vigneault is a Canadian poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. Two of his songs are considered by many to be Quebec's unofficial anthems: "Mon pays" and "Gens du pays", and his line Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver became a proverb in Quebec. Vigneault is a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, Knight of the Legion of Honour, and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Star Académie is a Canadian reality television series that started in 2003, aimed primarily at the Quebec television audience, featuring an array of young women and men under the age of 30 competing for the title of the next solo singing sensation. It is the French-Canadian adaptation of the French television show Star Academy produced by Dutch company Endemol, based on the Spanish format called Operación Triunfo.
Isabelle Sophie Emilie Blais is a Canadian film and television actress and singer.
The Prix Sorcières is an annual literary prize awarded in France since 1986 to works of children's literature in a number of categories. The categories were renamed in 2018.
Molière Award for Best Actress.
Hollywood Girls : Une nouvelle vie en Californie, or simply Hollywood Girls, is a French soap opera created by Alexandre dos Santos, Jérémy Michalak, and Thibaut Vales for NRJ12. The series features an ensemble cast and follows a groups of French peoples who decided to start a new life in California, but their life is quickly disrupted by the diabolical Geny G and her husband, the Dr. David Moretti.
États d'amour is francophone Canadian pop singer Isabelle Boulay's second studio album. It was released in Quebec in February 1998 and in France in November 1998, with a somewhat different sequence of tracks. Also, a limited edition was issued consisting of the French release together with a bonus mini-CD.
Marquise Lepage, is a Canadian (Québécoise) producer, screenwriter, and film and television director. She is best known for her 1987 feature Marie in the City , for which she received a nomination for Best Director at the 9th Genie Awards in 1988. She was also a nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 14th Genie Awards in 1993 for Your Country, My Country . She was hired by the National Film Board (NFB) as a filmmaker in 1991. One of her first major projects for the NFB was The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché, a documentary about female cinema pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché.
Nicole de Buron was a French writer.
The 11th Magritte Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie André Delvaux, honored the best films of 2020 and 2021 in Belgium. It took place on 12 February 2022, at the Square, in the historic site of Mont des Arts, Brussels. It was the first ceremony in two years after the 2021 event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the ceremony, the Académie André Delvaux presented Magritte Awards in 23 categories. The ceremony, televised in Belgium by La Trois, was produced by Leslie Cable and Tanguy Cortier and was directed by Benoît Vlietinck. Film director Thierry Michel presided the ceremony, while comedians Laurence Bibot, Dena, Ingrid Heiderscheidt, Achille Ridolfi and Bwanga Pilipili co-hosted the show.
Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers is a Canadian film director and producer from Quebec. She is most noted for her 2019 short film Just Me and You , which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards, and won the Prix Iris for Best Live Action Short Film at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards.
Winter Claire is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Sophie Bédard Marcotte and released in 2017. The film stars Marcotte as Claire, a bored young woman who is struggling to motivate herself to undertake a photography project, against the context of widespread public concern about a malfunctioning cargo spaceship which Claire fears is going to crash directly into her head.
How to Get Your Parents to Divorce is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers and released in 2022. The film stars Charlotte St-Martin as Justine, a preteen girl who is frustrated by the constant fighting of her parents Julie and Martin, and plots with her friends to figure out how to convince them to divorce.
West of Pluto is a Canadian comedy-drama docufiction film, directed by Henry Bernadet and Myriam Verreault and released in 2008.
Cherry is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Laurence Gagné-Frégeau and released in 2023. The film is a portrait of Marie-Lise Chouinard, a writer and actress who died of cancer in 2022.
Neon Dreaming is a Canadian drama film, directed by Marie-Claire Marcotte and slated for release in 2024. An adaptation of her own theatrical play Flush, the film stars Maélya Boyd as Billie, a young girl using her vivid imagination to cope with the absence of her mother.
L.A. Tea Time is a Canadian docufiction film, directed by Sophie Bédard Marcotte and released in 2019. A semi-fictionalized documentary, the film is a travelogue centering on Bédard Marcotte and cinematographer Isabelle Stachtchenko taking a road trip across the United States to Los Angeles, purportedly in the hopes of meeting and interviewing filmmaker and performance artist Miranda July.
Sophie Bédard Marcotte is a Canadian film director from Montreal, Quebec, whose films explore the boundaries between documentary and fiction storytelling.
Urbania is a Montreal-based media group that was created in 2000. The company operates diverse digital media, a brand agency, a technological laboratory, and an audiovisual production house.