Sara Montpetit (born c. 2001) [1] is a French Canadian actress and environmental activist from Quebec. [2] She is most noted for her performance in the 2021 film Maria Chapdelaine , for which she won the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards. [3]
In 2021, she garnered acclaim for her performance in the film Maria Chapdelaine , winning the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards. [3] That year, she was also cast in Charlotte Le Bon's debut feature film Falcon Lake. [4]
Falcon Lake film was shot in mid-2021 in and around Gore, Quebec, [5] during the COVID-19 pandemic. [6] The film debuted in the Director's Fortnight program at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2022. [7] It had its Canadian premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. [8]
In 2022, she was cast as Sasha, a teenage vampire who befriends Paul (Félix-Antoine Bénard), a boy with suicidal tendencies, in Ariane Louis-Seize's Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant), planned for release in 2023. [9] Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2023. [10] The film had its Canadian premiere in the Centrepiece program at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. [11]
For her performance in the film Maria Chapdelaine, Montpetit won the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards. [3]
For her performance in Falcon Lake, Montpetit received both a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Performance in a Film at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards, [12] and a Prix Iris nomination for Best Actress at the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards. [13]
In 2024 she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Lead Performance in a Comedy Film at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards, for Humanist Vampire. [14]
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