Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie is a Canadian actor from Quebec. [1] He is most noted for his performance in the film A Colony (Une colonie), for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 [2] and a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards. [3]
He is a member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation. [1]
He has also appeared in the films Bootlegger and Billie Blue (Cœur de slush), the short films Screw the Boys,The Music Video and Bleach, the television series District 31 and the television miniseries Eaux turbulentes.
Rémy Girard is a Canadian actor and former television host from Montreal, Quebec.
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2016, it was known as the Jutra Award in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra, but Jutra's name was withdrawn from the awards following the publication of Yves Lever's biography of Jutra, which alleged that he had sexually abused children.
Patrick Hivon is a Canadian actor from Montreal, Quebec.
Bernard Gariépy Strobl is a Canadian re-recording sound mixer, best known internationally as the supervising re-recording mixer of Arrival (2016), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Sound and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing. He has been a re-recording mixer on many prominent Quebec films of the last two decades, including The Red Violin (1998), C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005), Monsieur Lazhar (2011), War Witch (2012), Gabrielle (2013), and Endorphine (2015).
Martin Dubreuil is a Canadian actor and musician from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the film For Those Who Don't Read Me , for which he won the Prix Iris for Best Actor at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019.
Nabil Rajo is an Eritrean-Canadian actor. He is most noted for his performance in the film Boost, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards, and received a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards.
Nicolas Canniccioni is a Canadian cinematographer.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Actor to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Théodore Pellerin is a Canadian film and television actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the 2018 film Family First , for which he won the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards, and the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards. In 2021, he starred as Oliver Larsson in the Netflix film There's Someone Inside Your House.
Jorge Antonio Guerrero is a Mexican actor born on August 11, 1987. He is most noted for his performance as Fermín in the 2018 film Roma, for which he was an Ariel Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 61st Ariel Awards in 2019. He has also appeared in the television series Luis Miguel: The Series, Narcos: Mexico, Crime Diaries: The Candidate, Sitiados: México and Hernán, and in the film Drunken Birds . He received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nomination for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2021, and a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022, for Drunken Birds.
A Colony is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, directed by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles and released in 2018. The film centres on Mylia, a young girl starting high school who is torn between her new friendships with Jacinthe, a bad influence who encourages her to experiment with sex and alcohol, and Jimmy, an artistic First Nations student. The film's cast also includes Irlande Côté as Mylia's younger sister Camille, and Noémie Godin-Vigneau and Robin Aubert as their parents.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Supporting Actor to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Larissa Corriveau is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the film Ghost Town Anthology , for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards and a Prix Iris nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards.
The 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards were presented on 10 June 2020, to recognize talent and achievement in the cinema of Quebec. The planned 7 June ceremony was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but nominees were announced 23 April. Abenaki documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin was also selected as the recipient of the Iris Tribute at the unanimous recommendation of Québec Cinéma's Comité de représentation professionnelle.
Pascal Plante is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, whose debut feature film, Fake Tattoos , premiered in 2017.
The Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year is an annual award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the best performances by emerging actors in their first major film roles who were not nominated in the main lead and supporting acting categories. The award is not separated by gender.
Lévi Doré is a Canadian actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the film The Fall of Sparta , for which he received a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards.
Vincent Leclerc is a Canadian actor from Trois-Rivières, Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the 2018 film The Fall of the American Empire , for which he received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019, and his starring role as Séraphin Poudrier in the television series Les Pays d'en haut, for which he won the Gémeaux Award for Best Actor in a Short Run Drama Series in 2016.
Bootlegger is a Canadian drama film, directed by Caroline Monnet and released in September 2021. The film centres on Mani, an indigenous graduate student in university who returns to her reserve in Quebec to advocate for a community referendum banning the sale of alcohol, placing her at odds with Laura, a bootlegger who profits from the sale of alcohol in the community.
Sara Montpetit is a French Canadian actress and environmental activist from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the 2021 film Maria Chapdelaine, for which she won the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards.