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5th Jutra Awards
The 5th Jutra Awards were held on February 23, 2003 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2002.Brendan Kelly"‘Seraphin’ tops list at Jutra noms" ''Variety'', January 28, 2003. '' Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché)'' received ten nominations and became the first film to receive five acting nominations and the second to receive at least one in every acting category. It also became the fourth film to receive two acting awards and the first to win both Best Actor, for Pierre Lebeau, and Best Actress, for Karine Vanasse. In total, the film won six competitive awards and the Billet d'or award. With seven nominations, Ricardo Trogi's comedy '' Québec-Montréal'' was the night's big winner, receiving four awards in major categories: Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Isabelle Blais. Luc Picard and Karine Vanasse Karine Vanasse (, ; born 24 November 1983) is a Canadian a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jutra Awards
Jutras may have several meanings : * Claude Jutra: an award-winning French Canadian filmmaker **Jutra Award: Film awards formerly given in the Canadian province of Quebec, named after the filmmaker and now known as Prix Iris **The Claude Jutra Award: An award formerly given by the Canadian Genie Awards for a director's first feature film and now known as the Canadian Screen Award for Best First Feature * Benoît Jutras, composer * Normand Jutras, a politician * René Jutras, a politician * Manon Jutras, an athlete * Paul Jutras, a Canadian film editor {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Set Me Free (1999 Film)
''Set Me Free'' () is a 1999 Canadian coming-of-age drama film by Léa Pool and starring Karine Vanasse. It tells the story of Hanna, a girl struggling with her sexuality and the depression of both her parents as she goes through puberty in Quebec in 1963. The film heavily references the French new-wave film '' Vivre sa vie'' by Jean-Luc Godard. The film won critical acclaim and several awards, both for Pool and Vanasse, including being named the year's best Canadian feature by the Toronto Film Critics Association. ''Set Me Free'' was announced as Canada's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 72nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot In 1963, 13-year old girl Hanna is living on a farm in rural Quebec with her grandparents and uncle (who apparently has a developmental disability such as Down Syndrome) when she gets her first period. She then interrupts family dinner when her father calls her, much to her grandmother's annoyance. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Nguyen
Kim Nguyen (born 1974) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for his 2012 film '' War Witch (Rebelle)'' which received numerous honours including an Academy Awards nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Early life Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec to a Vietnamese father and a French-Canadian mother, he is a 1997 graduate of Concordia University in Montreal, having earned a BFA. His knowledge of computer-assisted image manipulation was deepened while he taught cinematographic language and screenwriting at the Institut de création artistique et de recherche en infographie (ICARI) and Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in Montréal. Career Kim has directed a number of feature films including '' War Witch'' (2012) (also known by the French title ''Rebelle''), '' Eye on Juliet'' (2017) and '' The Hummingbird Project'' (2018). For ''War Witch'', the film was the top winner at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards, in addition to being named Best Picture and winning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Negro (film)
''The Negro'' () is a 2002 Canadian drama film, directed by Robert Morin."Le Neg' shows up bigots: Morin's work is tough, personal". ''Montreal Gazette'', October 21, 2002. An examination of racism, the film centres on a police officer in a small Quebec town who is trying to reconstruct, through the conflicting testimony of witnesses and participants, the events of the night before, when the petty vandalism of a woman's lawn jockey escalated within a few hours to the woman being found dead and the young Black Canadian suspected of committing the vandalism having been viciously beaten in a field. The film's original title, equivalent in Quebec French to "the nigger", was controversial, with a Black youth group in Montreal demanding that the film's title and promotional poster be changed. Morin, however, defended his choice to use a controversial title, stating that "If it stirs up some controversy, then at least people will be talking about racism." The film's cast includes Iannicko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Morin
Robert Morin (born May 20, 1949) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 2009, he received the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. Biography Robert Morin is known for his very personal, dark, and pessimistic "interior views" of family, crime, law enforcement, and human suffering, with his work regularly moving back and forth between relatively conventional dramas with multi-actor casts, and experimental personal essay films in which Morin, or a single actor cast as a stand-in, stars in essentially a film-length philosophical monologue from the perspective of a character who, whether by choice or circumstance, has become an outsider to mainstream society.Pierre Véronneau"Robert Morin" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', September 11, 2006. After studying literature and communications, in 1971 he began to work as a cameraman, joining ORTQ in Rimouski, where he directed films and videos. In 1977, with a group of friends and colleagues, Morin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Baroness And The Pig
''The Baroness and the Pig'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Michael Mackenzie and released in 2002. Based on Mackenzie's own stage play, the film stars Patricia Clarkson as The Baroness, a Quaker woman from Philadelphia who moves to Paris with her husband, The Baron (Colm Feore) in the 1880s; however, her egalitarian ideals conflict with the elitism of Parisian society, particularly when she launches a plan to rehabilitate and bring into society a wild girl ( Caroline Dhavernas) who was raised in a pig sty, leading The Duchess (Louise Marleau) to attempt to engineer The Baroness's downfall.Liam Lacey"The Baroness and the Pig" ''The Globe and Mail'', August 13, 2004. The film premiered on September 8, 2002 at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival.Mark Dillon"The Baroness and the Pig’s all-digital model" '' Playback'', September 16, 2002. It was screened under an experimental model, by which instead of a traditional film print being projected in a standard manner, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Mackenzie (filmmaker)
Michael Mackenzie works in film, theatre and technology policy. He has directed two feature films, both theatrically released in Canada. His plays have been staged in Europe and North America and variously published in English, French, German and Hungarian. He has a Ph.D from L’Institut d'Histoire et Sociopolitique de Science, Université de Montréal. Past academic appointments include Visiting Fellow at Princeton University Professor of Humanities at Vanier College, and consultant at the United Nations. Theatre Since 1990 Mackenzie's plays have been produced in Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, France, Portugal, Spain, England, Nova Scotia, across Quebec, and in Toronto and Vancouver. His recent play on the 2008 financial crisis "Instructions to Any Future Government Wishing to Abolish Christmas" was a finalist for the 4th International STAGE Competition, the French production toured through twenty-five theatres in Quebec (2015-2016) and played at the ''National Arts Centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Trogi
Ricardo Trogi (born March 25, 1970) is a Canadians, Canadian filmmaker, director and actor. Career Trogi was born in Quebec City, Quebec. He began his filmmaking career as a contestant in the 1994-95 edition of ''La Course destination monde'', tying with François Prévost for the win at the end of the season. His first two feature films, ''Québec-Montréal'', about seven twenty-something travellers driving between the two cities, and ''Dodging the Clock (Horloge biologique)'', a look at three men and their decisions about having children, were both critical and commercial hits. ''Quebec-Montréal'' received four Jutra Awards. His third feature, titled ''1981 (film), 1981'', was a semi-autobiographical film about his own coming of age, and was released in September 2009. It was followed by the sequel films ''1987 (film), 1987'' in 2014, ''1991 (film), 1991'' in 2018, and ''1995 (film), 1995'' in 2024. In addition to his film work, Trogi also directed the 2004-2005 television s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorraine Richard (producer)
Lorraine Richard (born July 30, 1959, in Havre-Saint-Pierre, Quebec) is a Quebec politician. She was the Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Duplessis in the Côte-Nord region from 2003-2022, representing the Parti Québécois. Richard was a nursing assistant in a health center in Havre St-Pierre for 25 years in which she was also the secretary for the Minganie Health Center's employee union. She was also a school commissioner for 16 years, the vice-president of the Côte-Nord School Board's Association for five years. Richard was elected in Duplessis in the 2003 elections and was the PQ's critic for citizen relations, maritime affairs and social services. She was re-elected in the 2007 and 2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ... general elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Fortin
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Yves may refer to: * Yves, Charente-Maritime, a commune of the Charente-Maritime department in France * ''Yves'' (single album), a single album by Loona * ''Yves'' (film), a 2019 French film People * Yves (given name), including a list of people with the name * Yves Tumor, U.S. musician * Yves (singer), South Korean singer and producer See also * Eve (other) * Evette (other) * Yvette (other) * Yvon (other) * Yvonne (other) Yvonne is a female given name. Yvonne may also refer to: * Yvonne (band), a 1993—2002 Swedish group featuring Henric de la Cour * Yvonne (cow) a German cow that escaped and was missing for several weeks in 2011 * ''Yvonne'' (musical), a 1926 Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marsh (2002 Film)
''The Marsh'' () is a 2002 Canadian drama film, written and directed by Kim Nguyen."Marais, Le – Film de Kim Nguyen" ''Films du Québec'', January 28, 2009. Set in Eastern Europe during the 19th century, the film stars Gregory Hlady and Paul Ahmarani as Alexandre and Ulysse, two social outcasts who settle on a haunted marsh on the outskirts of a village, but become wrongly suspected of criminal wrongdoing after a woman from the village disappears. The film's cast also includes Gabriel Gascon, Karina Aktouf, James Hyndman (actor), James Hyndman, Réal Bossé and Alex Ivanovici. The film premiered at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival. Gascon received a Genie Award nomination for Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actor at the 23rd Genie Awards. The film received six Prix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginette Petit
Ginette may refer to: Music * "Ginette", a song by Têtes Raides. * "Ginette", a song by Beau Dommage. People * Ginette Amara (born 1962), Central African academician, veterinarian, and politician * Ginette Anfousse (born 1944), writer and illustrator of children's books * Ginette Aumassip, French geologist * Ginette Baudin (1921–1971), French stage and film actress * Ginette Bedard (born 1933), French-American long distance runner * Ginette Bingguely-Lejeune (1895–1969), French sculptor * Ginette Bouchard (1952–2004), Canadian photographer * Ginette Bucaille (1926–2021), French tennis player * Ginette Daleu (1977–2018) Cameroonian artist * Ginette Dior (1917–2008). French resistance fighter * Ginette Durand (1929–2018), French gymnast * Ginette Gamatis (born 1944), a politician * Ginette Garcin (1928–2010), French actress * Ginette Gaubert (1904–1987), French model and film actress * Ginette Gosselin Ferszt, an American nurse * Ginette Grandmont, a politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |