Dany Laferrière is a Haitian-Canadian novelist and journalist who writes in French. He was elected to seat 2 of the Académie française on 12 December 2013, and inducted in May 2015.
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2016, it was known as the Jutra Award in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra, but Jutra's name was withdrawn from the awards following the publication of Yves Lever's biography of Jutra, which alleged that he had sexually abused children. It should not be confused with the Claude Jutra Award, a special award presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television as part of the separate Canadian Screen Awards program which was also renamed in 2016 following the allegations against Jutra.
Roger Frappier is a Canadian producer, director, editor, actor, and screenwriter.
Daniel Roby is a Canadian film director and cinematographer. An alumnus of the film programs at Concordia University and the University of Southern California, he worked as a camera operator and cinematographer on numerous film and television projects before releasing his own directorial debut, White Skin , in 2004.
Anne Émond is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, currently based in Montreal, Quebec.
André Turpin is a French Canadian cinematographer, film director, and screenwriter.
Richard Comeau is a Canadian film editor.
Alexis Martin is a Canadian actor and writer. A 1986 graduate of the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal, he has acted in film, television and stage productions, and has written both theatrical plays and film screenplays.
Wild Run: The Legend is a 2016 Canadian fantasy film directed by Jean-Philippe Duval and starring Caroline Dhavernas, Francis Ducharme and François Papineau. The film's screenplay is written by Guillaume Vigneault, based on the French Canadian legend of Chasse-galerie.
Robin Aubert is a Canadian actor, screenwriter and film director. He is most noted for his performance in the film The Countess of Baton Rouge , for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 18th Genie Awards in 1997, and his 2017 film Ravenous , which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
Nicole Bélanger is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter from Quebec. She is most noted for her novel Salut mon roi mongol ! and its film adaptation Cross My Heart , for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards.
Through the Mist is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean-Philippe Duval and released in 2009. A biopic of rock musician Dédé Fortin of Les Colocs, the film stars Sébastien Ricard as Fortin.
Matroni and Me is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Jean-Philippe Duval and released in 1999.
Sylvie Drapeau is a Canadian actress and writer from Baie-Comeau, Quebec.
Sébastien Ricard is a Canadian musician and actor from Quebec most noted as a member of the hip hop band Loco Locass. As an actor, he won the Prix Jutra for Best Actor at the 12th Jutra Awards in 2010 for his performance as Dédé Fortin in Through the Mist , and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 15th Jutra Awards in 2013 for his performance as Ji-Guy in Before My Heart Falls . His other film roles have included Raphaël in Gabrielle, Christophe Ducharme in Chorus, Léopold Lacroix in Hochelaga, Land of Souls , Christophe in The Acrobat (L'Acrobate), Brother Jean in The Vinland Club , and Samuel Chapdelaine in Maria Chapdelaine.
14 Days, 12 Nights is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean-Philippe Duval and released in 2019. The film stars Anne Dorval as Isabelle Brodeur, a Canadian woman whose grief over the accidental death of her adopted Vietnamese-born teenage daughter leads her to undertake a trip to Vietnam to meet Thuy Nguyen, the girl's birth mother.
Mathieu Laverdière is a Canadian cinematographer. He is a two-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Cinematography, receiving nominations at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015 for Henri Henri and at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018 for We Are the Others , and a three-time Quebec Cinema Award nominee for Best Cinematography, receiving nominations at the 15th Jutra Awards in 2013 for The Torrent , at the 17th Jutra Awards in 2015 for Henri Henri, and at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020 for And the Birds Rained Down .
The Prix Iris for Best Screenplay is an annual film award, presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the year's best screenplay in the Cinema of Quebec.
Jean Beaudry is a Canadian film director, actor and screenwriter from Quebec. He is most noted as co-director with François Bouvier of the 1984 film Jacques and November , which was selected as Canada's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 58th Academy Awards, and the 1989 film Unfaithful Mornings , for which the duo received a Genie Award nomination for Best Director at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990.
