Olivier Godin is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. [1]
He directed a number of short films before premiering his full-length directoral debut, Le Pays des âmes, at the 2011 Festival du nouveau cinéma. [2] He followed up in 2014 with Nouvelles, nouvelles, [3] and in 2016 with The Art of Speech (Les Arts de la parole), [4] for which he won a jury prize at the 2017 edition of Les Percéides. [5]
In 2018 he released Waiting for April (En attendant avril), [6] which was his first film to receive wide distribution beyond Quebec, including being selected for the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival. [7]
There Are No False Undertakings (Il n'y a pas de faux métier) premiered at the virtual 2020 edition of the Festival du nouveau cinéma. [8]
His sixth film, Ireland Blue Book (Irlande cahier bleu), premiered at the 2023 Fantasia Film Festival, [9] where it was the winner of the Camera Lucida award from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma. [10]