Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers

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Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers is a Canadian film director and producer from Quebec. [1] She is most noted for her 2019 short film Just Me and You (Juste moi et toi), which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards, [2] and won the Prix Iris for Best Live Action Short Film at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards. [3]

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Her 2021 film Fanmi , codirected with Carmine Pierre-Dufour, was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2021. [4]

In 2022, Brodeur-Desrosiers directed her first feature-length film, How to Get Your Parents to Divorce (Pas d'chicane dans ma cabane). The film, aimed at a pre-adolescent audience, premiered at the Festival du film de l'Outaouais (Outaouais Film Festival). [5] She co-wrote the film with Maryse Latendresse. [6]

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References

  1. Marie-Claude Lortie, "Personnalités de la semaine: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles et Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers". La Presse , February 24, 2019.
  2. Anne-Marie Gravel, "Forêt Noire en lice aux prix Écrans canadiens". Le Quotidien , February 18, 2020.
  3. "Le film Antigone, grand gagnant du Gala Québec Cinéma avec six prix" (in French). Radio-Canada. June 10, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
  4. Norman Wilner, "TIFF announces Canada’s Top Ten films of 2021". Now , December 6, 2021.
  5. 1 2 Harvey, Léa (2022-06-03). "Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers: diriger les petits comme les grands". Le Soleil (in French). Retrieved 2022-09-10.
  6. Larocque, Véronique (2022-06-10). "Pas d'chicane dans ma cabane | Un film pour les jeunes, par les jeunes". La Presse (in French). Retrieved 2022-09-10.