Claude Jutra was a Canadian actor, film director, and screenwriter.
Robert Charlebois, OC, OQ is a Québecois author, composer, musician, performer and actor.
Michel Brault, OQ was a Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s. Brault was a pioneer of the hand-held camera aesthetic.
Gabrielle is a 2013 Canadian drama film directed by Louise Archambault and starring Gabrielle Marion-Rivard as Gabrielle, a young woman with Williams syndrome who participates in a choir of developmentally disabled adults, and begins a romantic relationship with her choirmate Martin. It features a cast from a real choir for people with disabilities, with Marion-Rivard being an actress who actually has Williams syndrome.
Jocelyne Saucier is a Canadian novelist and journalist based in Quebec.
Alexandre Landry is a Canadian film, television and stage actor. He is best known for his role in the 2013 film Gabrielle, for which he garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards.
Richard Comeau is a Canadian film editor.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Actor to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
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.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Supporting Actor to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Supporting Actress to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
And the Birds Rained Down is a 2019 Canadian drama film, directed by Louise Archambault. An adaptation of the novel by Jocelyne Saucier, the film centres on a group of senior citizens living off-the-grid in a wilderness setting, whose orderly and quiet lives are threatened by changes in their personal group dynamics after the death of the group leader and the arrival of a new outsider.
Thanks for Everything is a 2019 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Louise Archambault. Her second film to be released in 2019 following And the Birds Rained Down , the film stars Julie Perreault and Magalie Lépine-Blondeau as Christine and Marianne Cyr, two estranged sisters who reunite after the death of their father, and embark on a road trip to the Magdalen Islands to scatter his ashes.
The 16th Prix Jutra ceremony was held on March 23, 2014 at the Monument-National theatre in Montreal, Quebec, to honour achievements in the Cinema of Quebec in 2013. Nominations were announced in January.
Mathieu Laverdière is a Canadian cinematographer, who won the Prix Iris for Best Cinematography at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021 for Underground (Souterrain).
The Iris Tribute Award is an annual award presented by Québec Cinéma, as part of its Prix Iris program, as a lifetime achievement award for distinguished accomplishments in the Cinema of Quebec.
One Summer is a 2023 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Louise Archambault.
Marie Vien is a Canadian screenwriter from Quebec. She is most noted as co-writer with Léa Pool of the film The Passion of Augustine , for which they received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Screenplay at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2016.
Irena's Vow is a 2023 Canadian-Polish war drama film, directed by Louise Archambault. Written by Dan Gordon who also wrote the Broadway play Irena's Vow, the film stars Sophie Nélisse as Irena Gut Opdyke, a Polish nurse who helped to shelter and protect Jewish people during the Holocaust by hiding them in the cellar of the home where she was employed as a housekeeper by Nazi officer Eduard Rügemer. The cast also includes Andrzej Seweryn, Eliza Rycembel, Maciej Nawrocki, Aleksandar Milicevic, Tomasz Tyndyk and Nela Maciejewska.
Isabelle Malenfant is a Canadian film editor from Quebec. She has been a two-time Jutra/Iris nominee for Best Editing, receiving nods at the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009 for A Sentimental Capitalism and at the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2023 for The Dishwasher , and a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Editing at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024 for The Dishwasher.
