Renée Blanchar (born May 19, 1964) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and screenwriter. [1] She is most noted as a two-time winner of the award for Best Atlantic Documentary at the Atlantic International Film Festival, winning in 2018 for Shadow Men (Nos hommes dans l'ouest) [2] and in 2021 for The Silence (Le Silence). [3]
A native of Caraquet, New Brunswick, [4] she is an alumna of the University of Ottawa and the La Fémis film school in Paris, France. While at La Fémis, she was selected as a member of the feature film jury at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, after Francis Ford Coppola and jury president Wim Wenders sought out a film student to serve on the jury as a youth voice. [5]
In addition to its win at AIFF, The Silence won the award for Best Acadian Feature at the 2020 Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie, [6] and was shortlisted for the DGC Allan King Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2021 Directors Guild of Canada awards. [7]
Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre, born in Murdochville in 1978, is a Quebec director and producer of animated films. She is an associate professor at Université Laval, a theorist, and an author on women's animation cinema.
Brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, collectively referred to as the Dardenne brothers, are a Belgian filmmaking duo. They write, produce, and direct their films together. They also own the production company Les Films du Fleuve.
The Atlantic International Film Festival is a major international film festival held annually in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada since 1980. AIFF is the largest Canadian film festival east of Montreal, regularly premiering the region's top films of the year, while bringing the best films of the fall festival circuit to Atlantic Canada.
Phil Comeau is a Canadian film and television director, born in Saulnierville, Nova Scotia. He lives in Moncton, New Brunswick and Montreal, Quebec.
The Frye Festival, formerly known as the Northrop Frye International Literary Festival, is a bilingual literary festival held in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada in April of each year. The festival began in 1999 and honours noted literary critic Herman Northrop Frye (1912–1991), who spent his formative years in Moncton, graduating from Aberdeen High School.
A Scream from Silence is a 1979 Canadian drama film directed by Anne Claire Poirier and starring Julie Vincent. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 52nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Anne Claire Poirier O.C. is a Canadian film producer, director and screenwriter.
Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie, or FICFA, is a francophone international film festival held annually in Moncton, New Brunswick.
Lætitia Masson is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed twelve films since 1991. Her film For Sale was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
Denis Côté is a Canadian independent filmmaker and producer living in Quebec, of Brayon origin. His experimental films have been shown at major film festivals around the world.
Anne Émond is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, currently based in Montreal, Quebec.
Leyla Bouzid, is a Tunisian screenwriter and film director.
Sophie Bissonnette is a Canadian director, editor, writer, and producer in the Quebec film industry. After graduating from Queen's University, she began creating films in Montreal. She released most of her documentary films in the 1980s. In these films, Bissonnette illustrated social and political justices, both of which were topics that were covered commonly by many Quebecois filmmakers. However, her films were distinguishable through exploring the women's perspective of male-dominated social engagements and incidents in French Canada.
Wandering: A Rohingya Story is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Mélanie Carrier and Olivier Higgins and released in 2020. The film is a portrait of the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, which houses a large number of refugees from the Rohingya conflict in Myanmar.
Moon is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Zoé Pelchat and released in 2020. The film stars Joanie Martel as Babz, an ex-convict working as a waitress in a diner, who is set on a path to redemption when she works up the courage to ask a customer out on a date.
Zo Reken is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Emanuel Licha and released in 2021. Taking its name from a Haitian Creole slang term for the Toyota Land Cruiser, the film is an exploration of the impact of the international humanitarian aid apparatus on Haiti, centering on the ways in which it can be both a necessary lifeline and an instrument of economic inequality and repression.
Asmae El Moudir is a Moroccan film director, screenwriter and producer. She gained great recognition and national and international fame through her successful documentary The Mother of All Lies, for which she also won several awards.
Like the Ones I Used to Know is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Annie St-Pierre and released in 2021. The film stars Steve Laplante as Denis, a recently divorced father who is struggling with his emotions as he prepares to pick up his kids, including daughter Julie, at the home of his former in-laws on Christmas Eve.
Jérémie Battaglia is a French Canadian director and cinematographer. He is best known for his documentary films Casseroles, Perfect (Parfaites) and The Brother.