Related Research Articles
Manon Barbeau is a Québécois filmmaker, director, writer, and co-founder of Wapikoni Mobile, an organisation that helps First Nations youth learn the art of filmmaking. She has been Wapikoni Mobile’s general director since 2004.
Inch'Allah is a Canadian drama film, released in 2012. Written and directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, the film stars Evelyne Brochu as Chloé, a Canadian medical doctor with the Red Crescent. Splitting her time between her clinic in Ramallah, West Bank and Jerusalem, Chloé finds her loyalties torn as she witnesses the effects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on her friends, colleagues and patients on both sides of the border. At the 1st Canadian Screen Awards, Inch'Allah received five nominations, including Best Motion Picture.
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette is a Canadian novelist, film director, and screenwriter from Quebec. Her films are known for their "organic, participatory feel." Barbeau-Lavalette is the daughter of filmmaker Manon Barbeau and cinematographer Philippe Lavalette, and the granddaughter of artist Marcel Barbeau.
The Prix France-Québec is a Canadian literary award, presented to a Canadian French language writer who has published work in either Canada or France.
Quebec City Film Festival is a film festival held annually in September in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It screens short and feature films and premieres movies from all over the world.
Marchand de feuilles is an independent Canadian publishing house, founded in 2000 by Mélanie Vincelette. Headquartered in Old Montreal, Marchand de feuilles publishes a selection of books in French, which are distributed by Hachette Canada. The recipient of dozens of awards for its contributions to literature and publishing, Marchand de feuilles has published more than one hundred authors, poets and historians. The company's archives, including rare material from its founding and its early history, are held in the Youville Stables.
Renée Beaulieu is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, whose debut feature film Adrien was released in 2015.
Geneviève Pettersen is a Canadian writer from Quebec. Her debut novel, La déesse des mouches à feu (2014), was awarded the Grand Prix littéraire Archambault.
Sylvain Bellemare is a Canadian sound editor and sound designer, best known internationally as the supervising sound editor of Arrival (2016), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Sound and the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing. He is also known for Soft Shell Man (2001), It's Not Me, I Swear! (2008), Incendies (2010), Monsieur Lazhar (2011), Gabrielle (2013) and Endorphine (2015). He frequently works with Quebec filmmakers Philippe Falardeau or Denis Villeneuve.
Marine Johnson is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the 2017 film The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches , for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards, and a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards.
Suzanne is a 2015 novel by Canadian author Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, translated by Rhonda Mullins. The novel is a fictionalized biography of her grandmother, Suzanne Meloche, a poet and painter who interacted with many French-Canadian artists and historical events. Much of the information is based on the findings of a private investigator hired by Barbeau-Lavalette to find information on her grandmother's life. The novel was first released in the French language in Canada through the publishing house Marchand de feuilles during 2015. It received an English translation through Coach House Books, which released it during 2017.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Director to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Ina Litovski is a Canadian short drama film directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette and André Turpin, released in 2012. The film stars Marine Johnson as Sophie, a young music student preparing for her school violin recital, and struggling to convince her agoraphobic mother to overcome her fears and attend the performance.
Catherine Major is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter from Quebec. She is most noted for her 2011 album Le désert des solitudes, which was a Juno Award nominee for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2012.
Goddess of the Fireflies is a Canadian drama film, directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette and released in 2020. An adaptation of the novel by Geneviève Pettersen, the film centres on the coming of age of Catherine, a teenage girl living in a small town in Quebec in the early 1990s.
The Ring, also known in some releases as The Fight, is a Canadian drama film, directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette and released in 2007. The film stars Maxime Desjardins-Tremblay as Jessy Blais, a 12-year-old boy living in the impoverished Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood in Montreal, who aspires to become a professional wrestler to escape his circumstances.
Kelly Depeault is a Canadian actress from Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Hugo Latulippe is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Quebec, most noted as codirector of the 2004 film What Remains of Us and solo director of the 2012 film Alphée of the Stars .
White Dog is a Canadian drama film, directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette and released in 2022. Adapted from Romain Gary's autobiographical novel White Dog, the film stars Denis Ménochet as Gary and Kacey Rohl as his wife Jean Seberg, and centres on their adoption of an abandoned dog whom they learn to their horror had been trained to attack Black people on sight, leading them to send him to Keys, a Black dog trainer, for retraining.
Atikamekw Suns is a Canadian drama film, directed by Chloé Leriche and slated to premiere in 2023. The film centres on the true story of five youths from the Atikamekw First Nation community of Manawan who were found dead in a truck in the nearby river in 1977, with police investigation remaining inconclusive to this day about whether the truck driving into the river was a simple accident or a racially-motivated attack.
References
- ↑ Marie-France Bornais, "Se libérer des fantômes et des silences". Le Journal de Québec , November 26, 2017.
- ↑ Brian D. Johnson, "Introducing the Canadian Screen Awards, and their 2013 nominees". Maclean's , January 15, 2013.
- ↑ Caroline Montpetit, "Philippe Lavalette veut recoller les morceaux du passé". Le Devoir , September 18, 2017.
- ↑ Alexandre Vigneault, "Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette en 10 temps". La Presse , March 14, 2021.
