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Macha Grenon
Macha Grenon (born June 7, 1968) is a Canadian film and television actress. . ''La Presse (Canadian newspaper), La Presse'', February 26, 2011. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Grenon's credits include roles in the television series ''Urban Angel'', ''Scoop (Canadian TV series), Scoop'', ''Le cœur a ses raisons'', ''Emily of New Moon (TV series), Emily of New Moon'', ''Nouvelle adresse'' and ''H2O (miniseries), H2O'', as well as the films ''The Pianist (1991 film), The Pianist'', ''Stardom'', ''Familia (2005 film), Familia'', ''Windsor Protocol'', ''You Can Thank Me Later'', ''Days of Darkness (2007 Canadian film), Days of Darkness'', ''Barney's Version (film), Barney's Version'' and ''The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom''. She garnered a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Presse (Canadian Newspaper)
is a French-language online newspaper published daily in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1884, it is now owned by an independent nonprofit trust. ' was formerly a broadsheet daily, considered a newspaper of record in Canada. Its Sunday edition was discontinued in 2009, and the weekday edition in 2016. The weekend Saturday printed edition was discontinued on 31 December 2017, turning ' into an entirely online newspaper. Audience and sections ' is published on its website, .ca, as well as on its mobile and tablet apps, and ''La Presse+''. The newspaper targets an educated, middle-class readership. Its main competitors are two Montreal print dailies, the tabloid-format ', which aims at a more populist audience, and the more left-leaning broadsheet . ' comprises several sections, dealing individually with arts, sports, business and economy and other themes. Its Saturday print edition (now discontinued) contained over 10 sections. The newspaper's archives from 2000 to 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genie Award For Best Performance By An Actress In A Leading Role
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television presents an annual award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role to the best performance by a lead actress in a Canadian film. The award was first presented in 1968 by the Canadian Film Awards, and was presented annually until 1978 with the exception of 1969, when no eligible feature films were submitted for award consideration, and 1974 due to the cancellation of the awards that year. From 1980 until 2012, the award was presented as part of the Genie Awards ceremony; since 2013, it has been presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards. From 1980 to 1983, only Canadian actresses were eligible for the award; non-Canadian actresses appearing in Canadian films were instead considered for the separate Genie Award for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress. After 1983, the latter award was discontinued, and from 1986 both Canadian and foreign actresses were eligible for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. In Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boundaries (2016 Film)
''Boundaries'' () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Chloé Robichaud and premiering at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. The film's central characters are Emily Price (Emily VanCamp), Danielle Richard (Macha Grenon) and Félixe Nasser-Villeray ( Nathalie Doummar). Félixe is a newly elected Canadian Member of Parliament who is part of a delegation to the small island nation of Besco to negotiate Canadian investment in the struggling nation's mining industry. Danielle is the country's president and Emily is a mediator involved in the investment talks. The cast also includes Serge Houde, Rémy Girard, Micheline Lanctôt, Jean-Guy Bouchard and Alexandre Landry. The film was shot primarily in St. John's and Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April And The Twisted World
''April and the Extraordinary World'' () is a 2015 animated alternate history film co-directed by Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci, co-written by Ekinci and Benjamin Legrand, and starring Marion Cotillard. Set in a dystopian steampunk world based on the concepts and visuals of comic artist Jacques Tardi, the plot concerns a young scientist continuing her great grandfather's research and attempting to find her family, who have disappeared. Plot The film takes place in a world where Napoleon III was killed in a building explosion and the Franco-Prussian War was averted by his son's shrewd diplomacy. Over the next 70 years, the world's scientists disappear one by one, causing technological progress to grind to a halt and pollution to spiral out of control. In 1941, April Franklin, great-granddaughter of scientist Gustave Franklin, continues her family's work on a serum for ever-lasting life. So far, their only success has been April's pet cat Darwin, who has gained the ability ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Child Prodigy
''The Child Prodigy'' () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Luc Dionne and released in 2010. A biographical drama about classical pianist André Mathieu, the film stars Guillaume Lebon as Mathieu in childhood and Patrick Drolet as Mathieu in adulthood. Its cast also includes Marc Labrèche as his father Rodolphe Mathieu, Macha Grenon as his mother Mimi Gagnon Mathieu and Karine Vanasse as his sister Camillette, as well as Lothaire Bluteau, François Papineau, Isabel Richer, Catherine Trudeau, Albert Millaire, Benoît Brière and Mitsou Gélinas in supporting roles. The film received two Jutra Award 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 Awa ... nominations at the 13th Jutra Awards in 2011, for Best Art Direction ( Michel Proulx) and Best Costume Design ( Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Awake (2001 Film)
''Dead Awake'' (also released as ''Dead of the Night'') is a 2001 black comedy thriller television film directed by Marc S. Grenier and starring Stephen Baldwin, Macha Grenon and Michael Ironside. Synopsis Marketing executive Desmond Caine (Stephen Baldwin) is stricken with a bizarre form of insomnia, spending his nights walking the city's dangerous streets at night. Caine ends up at a local deli where he encounters some unusual characters: a nice, if bit lost, young woman (Macha Grenon) and a slightly deranged man who looks homeless (Michael Ironside), and an anti-social policeman. During one of his half-hallucinogenic journeys, Caine witnesses a brutal murder. He finds the victim's watch and goes to the police. Returning to the scene, there is no sign of the crime. Stranger still, Caine's girlfriend (Maxim Roy) is completely unaware that he gets up at night and wanders the city, while his personal assistant (Janet Kidder) seems to know all about his exploits. The police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Pack (2000 Film)
''Family Pack'' (, lit. "What Did Women Do When Men Walked on the Moon?") is a 2000 drama film, directed by Chris Vander Stappen.Lisa Nesselson"Family Pack" ''Variety'', November 19, 2000. Plot July 1969. After two years in Canada, Sacha is back in her small city in Belgium. She has two disruptive news for her family. The first is that instead of being married or at least engaged, she has a lesbian Canadian girlfriend; and the second is not better: instead of studying radiology in Montreal, she abandoned the studies despite the fact that her family had made huge sacrifices. Cast * Marie Bunel as Sacha Kessler * Hélène Vincent as Esther Kessler * Mimie Mathy as Elisa Kessler * Tsilla Chelton as Lea * Macha Grenon as Odile * Christian Crahay as Oscar Kessler * Emmanuel Bilodeau as Antoine * Michel Israel as Jules * Jacques Lavallée as Louis * Marie-Lise Pilote as Debbie * Mario Saint-Amand as Bob Production The movie was first screened to the Chicago International Film Fest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Caretaker's Lodge
''The Caretaker's Lodge'' () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Michel Poulette and released in 1997.Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 47. The film stars Serge Dupire as Jacques Laniel, a police officer who quits the force to become a private detective so that he can investigate and solve the murder of his former police partner Thomas Colin ( Jacques Godin). The cast also includes Macha Grenon, Monique Spaziani, Tania Kontoyanni, Jean-René Ouellet, Michel Forget, Raymond Cloutier, Paul Dion, Carl Béchard, Maka Kotto, Dorothée Berryman, Marie-Claude Lefebvre, Isabel Richer, David La Haye, Eric Cabana, Lenie Scoffié, Paul Buissonneau, Caroline Néron, JiCi Lauzon, Guy Provost, Andrée Champagne, Claude Léveillée and Bianca Gervais in supporting roles. The screenplay was written by Poulette and journalist and crime novelist Benoît Dutrizac. The film premiered at the 1997 Montreal World Film Festival, where it won the award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ideal Man
''The Ideal Man'' () is a Canadian romantic comedy film, directed by George Mihalka and released in 1996. The film stars Marie-Lise Pilote as Lucie, a successful magazine editor who feels her biological clock ticking as she has reached the age of 35 without becoming a mother, and sets out on a quest to meet as many men as possible over the next three months in the hopes of finally finding the ideal man to father a child. The film's cast also includes Roy Dupuis, Macha Grenon, Linda Sorgini, Pauline Lapointe, Denis Bouchard, Patrice L'Ecuyer, Joe Bocan, Rita Lafontaine, Martin Drainville and Rémy Girard. The film received two Genie Award nominations at the 18th Genie Awards, for Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Score, Best Original Score (François Dompierre) and Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Song, Best Original Song (Dompierre and Luc Plamondon for "L'Homme idéal"). It won the award for Best Original Song."Hereafter looks sweeter: Atom Egoyan's movie captures eig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mistaken Identity (film)
''Mistaken Identity'' (), also sometimes billed as ''Mistaken Person'', is a Canadian thriller film, directed by Gilles Noël and released in 1996. The film stars Michel Côté as Charles Renard, a police officer returning to work for the first time since being left hearing impaired by a bullet wound to the head. He is assigned to investigate Maria (Macha Grenon), an actress who is robbing men to finance a stage production of August Strindberg's ''Miss Julie''. The film's cast also includes Paul Doucet, Marie-Andrée Corneille, Robert Gravel, Paul Savoie and Luc Picard. At the 17th Genie Awards, Corneille was nominated for Best Supporting Actress."Quebec dominates Genie nominations: Lilies in running for 14 awards, Le Polygraphe for nine". ''Montreal Gazette ''The Gazette'', also known as the ''Montreal Gazette'', is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network. It is published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the only Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Myth Of The Male Orgasm
''The Myth of the Male Orgasm'' is a Canadian romantic comedy film, directed by John Hamilton and released in 1993."The Myth of the Male Orgasm" '''', October 18, 1993. The film stars as Jimmy Rovinski, a man whose lack of success with women leads him to sign up for a feminist study on male attitudes about sex and romance conducted by project leader "Jane Doe" ( Miranda de Pencier). The cast also includes |
The Night Of The Visitor
''The Night of the Visitor'' () is a Canadian drama short film, directed by Laurent Gagliardi and released in 1990. The film centres on the residents of a small apartment building, depicting their own personal dramas on the night that a young man is knocking at the front door asking to be let in the building. The film's cast includes Daniel Brière, Monique Chabot, Hugolin Chevrette-Landesque, Macha Grenon, Luce Guilbeault, Maka Kotto, Roger Léger, Claude Prégent and Mirella Tomassini. The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Theatrical Short Film at the 12th Genie Awards in 1991.Christopher Harris, "Black Robe leads race for Genies: Film community notes surprising omissions in list of nominees". ''The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Newspapers in Canada, Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in Western Canada, western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on week ...'', O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
