Marc-Antoine Lemire

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Marc-Antoine Lemire (born 1990) is a Canadian film director. [1] He is most noted for his 2017 short film Pre-Drink , which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, and the Prix Iris for best Fiction Short Film at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards. [2]

A graduate of the film studies program at the Université du Québec à Montréal, he won the Prix du meilleur espoir en cinéma documentaire in 2013 for his documentary film Ces trottoirs où nous marchons. [3] He made the short films Plaisirs de table (2012) and Joséphine, ou Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide (2013) before breaking through to wider attention with his 2015 short film Inner Jellyfishes (Les Méduses), which screened at film festivals across Canada and internationally. [4]

In 2022, he released Mistral Spatial , his full-length directorial debut. [5]

He has also worked in the art department for other films as an art director and propmaster. [1]

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