Jeffrey St. Jules

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Jeffrey St. Jules
Born
Fall River, Nova Scotia, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter
Years active2000s-present
Known for Bang Bang Baby

Jeffrey St. Jules is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, who won the Claude Jutra Award in 2015 for his debut feature film Bang Bang Baby . [1] The film also won the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. [2]

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Career

Originally from Fall River, Nova Scotia, [3] St. Jules studied creative writing and film at Concordia University. [3] Prior to making Bang Bang Baby, St. Jules wrote and directed a number of short films, including The Sadness of Johnson Joe Jangles , The Tragic Story of Nling , The Long Autumn, [4] Let the Daylight Into the Swamp and a music video for Apostle of Hustle's "National Anthem of Nowhere".

He won the Jackson-Triggs Award for Best Emerging Canadian Filmmaker at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival in 2005 for Joe Jangles, [5] and in the same year became the first Canadian film director ever admitted to the Cannes Film Festival's residency program for emerging filmmakers. [6] The Tragic Story of Nling was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 28th Genie Awards. Let the Daylight into the Swamp, an experimental documentary film about his grandparents, [7] was a shortlisted nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards.

His second full-length feature film, Cinema of Sleep , [4] was released in 2021. [8] St. Jules received a nomination for the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film. [9]

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ "Academy Names Claude Jutra Award Winner" Archived 2015-02-04 at the Wayback Machine . Broadcaster, February 3, 2015.
  2. ↑ "‘The Imitation Game’ Wins Toronto Audience Award". The Wrap , September 14, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "TIFF 2014: Jeffrey St. Jules, Canada’s master of the surreal short film, tries on long form for size". The Globe and Mail , September 4, 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Inferno lights up Cinema of Sleep" by Lauren Malyk at playbackonline.ca
  5. ↑ "Short film festival long on prizes". National Post , June 21, 2005.
  6. ↑ "His big Bang theories". National Post , September 6, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Into the swamp of family memory: Filmmaker uses poetry, humour to recount relatives' hurtful history". Toronto Star , September 13, 2012.
  8. ↑ Andy Howell, "Cinema of Sleep". Film Threat , April 13, 2021.
  9. ↑ Kelly Townsend, "All My Puny Sorrows leads film nominees for 2021 DGC Awards". Playback , September 24, 2021.
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