Myriam Verreault

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Myriam Verreault
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Film director
screenwriter

Myriam Verreault is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. [1] She is most noted for her 2019 film Kuessipan , for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards, [2] and two Prix Iris nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards. [3]

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Her other works have included the feature film West of Pluto (À l'ouest de Pluton), co-directed with Henry Bernadet, [1] and the web documentary My Tribe Is My Life (Ma tribu c'est ma vie), [4] as well as an editing credit on Olivier Higgins and Mélanie Carrier's 2013 documentary film Québékoisie .

In 2020 she was the patron and curator of the Festival Vues dans la tête de... film festival in Rivière-du-Loup. [5]

In 2024, Verreault was announced as directing a film adaptation of Emmanuelle Pierrot's award-winning 2023 novel La version qui n'intéresse personne. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 Éric Moreault, "Myriam Verreault: Construire un pont entre les nations". Le Soleil , September 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Écrans canadiens : Song of Names, The Twentieth Century et Antigone en tête des nominations". Ici Radio-Canada, February 18, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Les femmes brillent aux nominations du Gala Québec Cinéma". Ici Radio-Canada, April 23, 2020.
  4. ↑ Désautels, Michel (February 9, 2011). "Ma tribu, c'est ma vie, un webdocumentaire sur les réseaux sociaux" (Radio interview). Première Chaîne (in French). Montreal. Retrieved April 7, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Vues dans la tête de...Myriam Verreault". Ici Radio-Canada Bas-Saint-Laurent, February 8, 2020.
  6. ↑ Brendan Christie, "Couronne Nord acquires rights to Emmanuelle Pierrot novel". Playback , May 7, 2024.