Longueuil is a city in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of the Montérégie administrative region and the central city of the urban agglomeration of Longueuil. It sits on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River directly across from Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census totalled 254,483, making it Montreal's second largest suburb, the fifth most populous city in Quebec and twentieth largest in Canada.
The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by Tribeca Productions. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive programming. The festival was founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff in 2002 to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of Lower Manhattan following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. Until 2020, the festival was known as the Tribeca Film Festival.
Fantasia International Film Festival is a genre film festival that has been based mainly in Montreal since its founding in 1996. It focuses on niche, low budget movies in various genres, from horror to sci-fi. Regularly held in July/August, by 2016 its annual audience had already surpassed 100,000 viewers and outgrown even the Montreal World Film Festival.
The South Shore is the general term for the suburbs of Montreal, Quebec located on the southern shore of the Saint Lawrence River opposite the Island of Montreal. The South Shore is located within the Quebec administrative region of Montérégie.
Contrecœur is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 9,480. Contrecœur is approximately 45 kilometres (28 mi) northeast of Montreal and is accessible via Autoroute 30, the main road from the southwest, which continues on to Sorel-Tracy.
Maxime Giroux is a film director from Quebec, Canada.
Michel Brault, OQ was a Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s. Brault was a pioneer of the hand-held camera aesthetic.
Denys Desjardins, is a film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor and film historian for more than twenty years. After completing studies in literature, film and communications, he directed several acclaimed films.
Véronik Mallet is a retired Canadian figure skater. She is the 2022 Canadian national silver medalist, a two-time Canadian national bronze medalist and has finished in the top 10 at Four Continents Championships 2019.
Philippe Lesage is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. Originally a documentary filmmaker, he moved into narrative feature filmmaking in the 2010s with the films Copenhague: A Love Story, The Demons and Genesis (Genèse).
Émile Schneider is a Canadian film and television actor. He is most noted for his performance in the film Where Atilla Passes , for which he garnered a nomination for the Prix Iris for Best Actor in 2017.
Jean-Bernard Émond is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Richelieu as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec. Emond is a businessman who co-managed a family printing company in Sorel-Tracy. He is a founding member of the Coalition Avenir Québec.
The Colonie de vacances des Grèves, established in 1912, is the oldest vacation camp still in operation in Quebec and French-Canada. Today, this colony is renowned as the largest French-speaking summer camp still in operation in North America.
Richelieu, also released as Temporaries in some territories, is a Canadian drama film, directed by Pier-Philippe Chevigny and released in 2023. The film stars Ariane Castellanos as Ariane, a woman who is hired as a Spanish-French translator at a food processing plant in Quebec that has a large staff of temporary migrant workers from Guatemala, but becomes an ally and advocate for the workers as she realizes the need to defend them from abuse and exploitation by owner Stéphane.
Rebel is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Pier-Philippe Chevigny and released in 2019. The film centres on Alex, a six-year-old boy whose father Dave is a member of a far-right militia who are hunting refugees; taken out on the expedition, Alex is initially happy to play and have fun, but quickly changes his perspective and begins to rebel against his father after a chance encounter with a family hiding in the trees awakens him to what's actually going on.
Temporary or Temporaries may refer to:
Geneviève Gosselin-G. is a Canadian film producer from Quebec, who was a founder of the film studio Le Foyer Films. She is most noted as producer of the 2023 film Richelieu, which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Picture at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024.
