Gilles Vigneault is a Canadian poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. Two of his songs are considered by many to be Quebec's unofficial anthems: "Mon pays" and "Gens du pays", and his line Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver became a proverb in Quebec. Vigneault is a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, Knight of the Legion of Honour, and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Georges-Henri Denys Arcand is a Canadian filmmaker. During his four decades career, he became one of the most internationally-recognized director from Quebec, earning widespread acclaim and numerous accolades for his "intensely personal, challenging, and intellectual films."
Rémy Girard is a Canadian actor and former television host from Quebec.
Daniel Lavoie is a Canadian musician, actor, and singer best known for his song "Ils s'aiment" and the role of Frollo in musical Notre-Dame de Paris. He releases albums and performs on stage in Canada and France and tours in Canada and Europe.
La Malbaie is a municipality in the Charlevoix-Est Regional County Municipality in the Province of Quebec, Canada, situated on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River at the mouth of the Malbaie River. It was formerly known as Murray Bay. La Malbaie is the seat of the judicial district of Charlevoix.
Diane Tell is a Canadian musician who was born in Quebec City, Quebec.
Julien Lepers is a French television and radio presenter, and a singer-songwriter, born on 12 August 1949 in Paris.
Yves Jacques OC is a Canadian film, television and stage actor.
Zviane is a comics creator and a musician from Montréal, Quebec.
Daniel DeShaime is a Canadian French-language singer.
Vincent Biron is a Canadian film director. He is most noted for his 2016 feature film debut Prank, and his short film Little Flowers , which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.
Les Dales Hawerchuk are an alternative rock band from the town of Roberval in the Lac Saint-Jean region of Quebec. Their name is a reference to former NHL hockey player Dale Hawerchuk, whose hockey card lead singer Sylvain Séguin found in his car in 2001, shortly after being told that his band would need a name in order to perform at a local music festival. Hawerchuk subsequently gave them permission to use his name on the condition that they "stay out of jail".
Father and Guns 2 is a Canadian comedy film originating from Quebec, directed by Émile Gaudreault and released in 2017. A sequel to the 2009 film Father and Guns , the film reunites Michel Côté and Louis-José Houde as feuding father and son police officers Jacques and Marc Laroche, placing them in an undercover assignment at a couples therapy camp.
Stéfanie Clermont is a Canadian writer, who published her debut novel Le jeu de la musique in 2017.
Les Louanges is a Canadian indie pop act from Québec, created and performed by Vincent Roberge. He currently has 2 released albums with his label Bonsound.
Barbarians of the Bay is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Vincent Biron and released in 2019. The film stars Philippe-Audrey Larrue-Saint-Jacques as Yves, a hockey player who failed at the National Hockey League level and has been reduced to playing amateur hockey in La Malbaie, Quebec. After being sidelined by an injury that has prevented him from playing in the national championship tournament in Thunder Bay, Ontario, he enlists his younger cousin Jean-Philippe, who also loves hockey but aspires to be a sports agent rather than a player, to drive him on a road trip to the tournament in an attempt to reclaim his rightful glory on the ice.
Laughter is a Canadian drama film, directed by Martin Laroche and released in 2020. The film stars Léane Labrèche-Dor as Valérie, a woman who was the sole survivor of a massacre in her hometown several years earlier in the midst of a civil war; although she has successfully rebuilt her life with a job in a long-term care home and a new romantic relationship with Gabriel, she still struggles with survivor's guilt until the arrival of Jeanne, a new patient at the home, gives her a new perspective on life.
Éric K. Boulianne is a Canadian screenwriter and actor from Quebec. He is most noted as the writer of the film Before We Explode , for which he was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Screenplay at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019, and as cowriter with Stéphane Lafleur of the film Viking, for which they received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.
Alexandre Leblanc is a Canadian film editor and director, whose debut feature film Nut Jobs was released in 2022. The film premiered at the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival, where it was the winner of the Audience Award for best Quebec film.
