Robert Favreau | |
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Occupation(s) | Film director Screenwriter |
Years active | 1975 - Present |
Robert Favreau (born July 9, 1948) is a Canadian film director and film editor.
His film Les muses orphelines earned him Genie Award and Jutra Award nominations for Best Director. His follow-up feature, Un dimanche à Kigali earned him another Genie Award nomination for Best Director as well as a nomination for Best Motion Picture.
Roy Michael Joseph Dupuis is a Canadian actor best known in America for his role as counterterrorism operative Michael Samuelle in the television series La Femme Nikita. In Canada, specifically Quebec, he's known for numerous leading roles he's played in film. He portrayed Maurice Richard on television and in film and Roméo Dallaire in the 2007 film Shake Hands with the Devil.
Gil Courtemanche was a Canadian progressive journalist and novelist in third-world and international politics. He wrote for the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir.
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is the first novel by Montreal author Gil Courtemanche, originally published in 2000.
A Sunday in Kigali is a 2006 Canadian feature film set during the Rwandan genocide. It is directed by Robert Favreau and based on the novel A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche.
The 27th Genie Awards were held on February 13, 2007 to honour films released in 2006. The ceremony was located at the Carlu theatre in Toronto.
Luc Picard is a French Canadian actor, director and comedian. He was born on September 24, 1961, in Lachine, Quebec, Canada. He has played numerous characters in diverse roles.
Céline Bonnier is a French Canadian actress from Quebec. She has been nominated for four awards including Genie Awards and Gemini Awards.
Louise Portal is a Canadian actress, film director, singer and writer. She won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film The Decline of the American Empire, and was a nominee for Best Actress for Sous-sol .
Dominik Pagacz is a Canadian artist known mostly as an Emmy Award-winning motion picture supervising sound editor, sound effects editor, sound designer, sound re-recording mixer, actor and filmmaker. He is a member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) (U.S.A.).
Maxim Gaudette is a Canadian actor from Quebec. He won both the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2010 for his role as Marc Lépine in the 2009 film Polytechnique.
Alexis Martin is a Canadian actor and writer. A 1986 graduate of the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal, he has acted in film, television and stage productions, and has written both theatrical plays and film screenplays.
The Orphan Muses is a Canadian drama film, directed by Robert Favreau and released in 2000. An adaptation of the play by Michel Marc Bouchard, the film stars Marina Orsini, Céline Bonnier, Stéphane Demers and Fanny Mallette as a group of adult siblings dealing with the revelation of a longtime family secret.
Nelligan is a Canadian drama film, directed by Robert Favreau and released in 1991. A biopic of Quebec poet Émile Nelligan, the film stars Marc Saint-Pierre as the adolescent Nelligan and Michel Comeau as the adult Nelligan after his confinement to an insane asylum.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Actress to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Supporting Actress to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Jean Beaudry is a Canadian film director, actor and screenwriter from Quebec. He is most noted as co-director with François Bouvier of the 1984 film Jacques and November , which was selected as Canada's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 58th Academy Awards, and the 1989 film Unfaithful Mornings , for which the duo received a Genie Award nomination for Best Director at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990.
Marcel Sabourin, OC is a Canadian actor and writer from Quebec. He is most noted for his role as Abel Gagné, the central character in Jean Pierre Lefebvre's trilogy of Don't Let It Kill You , The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died and Now or Never , and his performance as Professor Mandibule in the children's television series Les Croquignoles and La ribouldingue.
Benoît Gouin is a Canadian actor from Pointe-du-Lac, Quebec. He is most noted as a two-time Jutra Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor, receiving nods at the 5th Jutra Awards in 2003 for his performance as Michel Gauvin in Québec-Montréal and at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014 for his performance as Laurent in Gabrielle.
Hélène Girard is a Canadian film editor. She is most noted as co-winner with Jean Beaudin of the Canadian Film Award for Best Editing at the 28th Canadian Film Awards in 1977, for their work on the film J.A. Martin Photographer .
Pierre Hébert is a Canadian animator from Montreal, Quebec, most noted for his 1996 feature film The Human Plant .