Luis De Filippis

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Luis De Filippis is an Italian Canadian film director and screenwriter from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1] Her work includes the award-winning film For Nonna Anna (2017) and Something You Said Last Night (2022).

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Career

De Filippis first attracted acclaim for her 2017 short film For Nonna Anna , which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. The film went on to receive a Special Jury Prize at Sundance. [2] De Filippis was also the winner of the Emerging Canadian Artist award at the 2018 Inside Out Film and Video Festival for her work on For Nonna Anna. [3]

Something You Said Last Night , her debut feature film, premiered in the Discovery program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, [4] and was nominated for the John Dunning Best First Feature Award at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024. [5]

Style

Her films feature transgender lead characters, but are not typically driven by inner or interpersonal conflict over the protagonist's gender identity itself; instead, they focus on the protagonist's ongoing family relationships and experiences after the period of gender transition has been settled. [6]

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References

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  2. Boisvert-Magnen, Olivier (2019-02-07). "Prix Écrans canadiens 2019 : la domination québécoise". Voir.ca (in Canadian French). Retrieved 2024-08-16.
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  6. "Canadian filmmaker Luis De Filippis wants to tell a different kind of trans story". The Globe and Mail. 2023-07-05. Retrieved 2024-08-16.