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Prix Iris For Best Editing
The Prix Iris for Best Editing () is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of the Prix Iris awards program, to honour the year's best film editing in the Cinema of Quebec. Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actor in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra. Following the withdrawal of Jutra's name from the award, the 2016 award was presented under the name Québec Cinéma. The Prix Iris name was announced in October 2016. Richard Comeau received six awards from eight nominations, both records, including two consecutive awards in 2013 and 2014, and again in 2016 and 2017. Mathieu Bouchard-Malo is the only editor to receive two nominations in the same year in 2019. To date, thirteen editors received nominations for films they directed: Michel Jetté, Simon Sauvé, Xavier Dolan (thrice), Demian Fuica, Rafaël Ouellet, Nathalie Saint-Pierre, François Delisle, Chloé Leriche, Mathieu Denis, Robin Aubert, Sophie Deraspe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Québec Cinéma
Québec Cinéma is a Canadian organization based in Quebec, whose mission is to promote and develop the Cinema of Quebec. The organization's programs include the Prix Iris, the annual film awards for Quebec films; the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, an annual film festival; the Lab Québec Cinéma, which works with schools to facilitate the use of Quebec films in educational contexts; and Tournée Québec Cinéma, which presents an annual touring minifestival of Quebec films in English Canada, English Canadian cities where French-language films from Quebec would not otherwise receive theatrical distribution. The organization is also a sponsor of the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois, an educational program which engages film studies students in the province's CEGEPs to present an annual film award. In December 2018, the organization announced a partnership with Netflix to launch Talent Lab, a professional development program for people entering the film industry. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Rankin
Matthew Rankin is a Canadian experimental filmmaker. His feature-length debut, '' The Twentieth Century,'' premiered in 2019 and was nominated for eight Canadian Screen Awards, winning three. His second feature film, ''Universal Language (Une langue universelle)'', premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, The film was longlisted for the 2024 Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award, and was selected as the Canadian entry for the Academy Award for the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. He has also received accolades for his 2014 film '' Mynarski Death Plummet'', which was a shortlisted Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards and a shortlisted Jutra Award nominee for Best Short Film at the 17th Jutra Awards, and his 2017 film '' The Tesla World Light'', which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Animated Short at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards and receive ... [...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] |
Michel Arcand
Michel Arcand (born 1949) is a Canadian film editor from Val-d'Or, Quebec.Paul Townend"Michel Arcand" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', January 6, 2013. He is a three-time Genie Award The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978), known as the "Etrog Awards" for sculptor ... winner for Best Editing. Awards References External links * Canadian film editors Best Editing Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners People from Val-d'Or 1949 births Living people {{Canada-film-editor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Post Mortem (1999 Film)
''Post Mortem'' is a 1999 Canadian drama film directed by Louis Bélanger. at 's Canadian Film Encyclopedia. The film won two , including Best Actress for Moreau. Cast *Gabriel Arcand
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Lorraine Dufour
Lorraine Dufour (born 1950) is a Canadian film editor and producer. She has received Canadian Screen Award and Prix Iris nominations and wins for films like '' Post Mortem'', '' The Negro'', and '' Bad Seeds'', and she and her longtime collaborator Robert Morin are the co-founders of . Biography Lorraine Dufour was born in 1950 in Montreal. She, Robert Morin, and Jean-Pierre St-Louis were part of the trio behind the ''documenteur'', a subgenre "mixing the false fiction and mockumentary". She and Morin co-founded in 1977, and the two also founded Morin-Dufour Vidéo Inc. In 1980, the two directed ''Gus est encore dans l’armée'', a short film about a Canadian Armed Forces soldier and his newfound attraction to another male soldier. In 1991, the two won the 1st Canada Council Bell Canada Award. she was also known to be the "guiding spirit of Coop Vidéo". Georges Privet called Dufour the Coop Vidéo de Montréal's "driving force" and said that "it is impossible to talk about er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Jutra Awards
The 2nd Jutra Awards were held on March 5, 2000 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 1999."Post Mortem snares top Jutra". ''The Globe and Mail'', March 7, 2000. The hosts of the ceremony were Yves Jacques and Élise Guilbault. '' Set Me Free (Emporte-moi)'' lead the ceremony with seven nominations. It won three competitive award and the award for Most Successful Film Outside Quebec. It also became the second film to win two acting awards: Best Actress for Karine Vanasse and Best Supporting Actress for Pascale Bussières. '' Matroni and Me (Matroni et moi)'' also received seven nominations and became the first film to receive at least one acting nomination in all four categories. Its director, Jean-Philippe Duval, also received a nomination for Best Documentary for ''Lumière des oiseaux''. ''Post Mortem'' was the night's big winner with five awards from six nominations, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August 32nd On Earth
''August 32nd on Earth'' (, and also known as ''32nd Day of August on Earth'') is a 1998 Canadian drama film directed and written by Denis Villeneuve, in his feature film directorial debut, and produced by Roger Frappier. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Alexis Martin won the Prix Jutra for Best Actor. The film was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards, but was not nominated. Plot In the aftermath of a highway mishap, photo model Simone (Pascale Bussières) decides that conceiving a baby with her best friend Philippe (Alexis Martin) is the only way to give her vacant life some meaning. Philippe reluctantly agrees with the proviso that they conceive in a desert. Cast Reception Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 61 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Brendan Kelly of ''Variety'' praised the film's visuals, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Leblond
Sophie Leblond is a Canadian film editor.Sylvain Sarrazin"Monteur: un métier de l’ombre sous les projecteurs" ''La Presse'', July 1, 2020. She is most noted for her work on the films ''Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête)'', for which she won the Jutra Award for Best Editing at the 4th Jutra Awards The 4th Jutra Awards were held on February 17, 2002, to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2001.Agnes Poirier"Quebec Jutra awards finalists announced" ''Screen Daily'', January 24, 2002. ''Soft Shell Man (Un cr ... in 2002,John Griffin, "Un Crabe grabs glory: Claims 7 trophies at Quebec film gala, followed by 15 Fevrier 1839 with 4". ''Montreal Gazette'', February 18, 2002. and ''Alexander Odyssey (Alexandre le fou)'', for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing in a Documentary, Best Editing in a Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.Brent Furdyk"Canadian Screen Awards 2020: Non-Fictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nô (film)
''Nô'' is a 1998 Canadian film by director Robert Lepage. It was based on one segment in Lepage's play ''Seven Streams of the River Ota''.Monk, Katherine (2001). ''Weird sex & snowshoes and other Canadian film phenomena'' (Vancouver: Rainforest Books), p. 322. The title is a pun which reflects the film's dramatic structure, linking the 1980 Quebec referendum (in which the "no" won) to Japanese Nō theatre. Plot The film is set in 1970 at the height of the FLQ bombings in Montreal, known as the October Crisis. During the Crisis, Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau instituted the War Measures Act, which resulted in martial law on the streets of Montreal. The central character, Sophie ( Anne-Marie Cadieux), is an actress working in Osaka (Japan) at Expo '70, while her boyfriend, Michel ( Alexis Martin), is an FLQ sympathizer. Sophie discovers that she is pregnant and phones Michel, but before she can tell him, two FLQ friends suddenly turn up at his apartment looking for a place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aube Foglia
Aube Foglia is a Canadian film editor. She is most noted as a four-time Jutra/Iris Award nominee for Best Editing, receiving nominations at the 1st Jutra Awards in 1999 for '' Nô'', the 4th Jutra Awards in 2002 for '' Between the Moon and Montevideo'', the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018 for ''The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes)'' and the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021 for ''Night of the Kings (La nuit des rois)''. In addition, she received a nomination for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020 for ''Dark Suns (Soleils noirs)'', and a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Editing at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for ''Night of the Kings''.Brent Furdyk"2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack" ''ET Canada'', February 15, 2022. Her other credits have included the films ''An Imaginary Tale (Une histoire inventée)'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2 Seconds
''2 Seconds'' () is a 1998 Canadian drama film. This film premiered in 1999 at the Sundance Film Festival.Briand, M. (2016). 2 Seconds. Retrieved December 01, 2016, from https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/2_seconds/ Written and directed by Manon Briand, ''2 Seconds'' stars Charlotte Laurier as Laurie, a bisexual woman who takes a job as a bike courier in Montreal after being fired from her previous job as a professional downhill racer. Laurie is forcefully retired as a downhill racer when her concerns about her signs of aging cause her to lose her last race by 2 seconds (hence the name of the movie). Laurie and the one bike she was allowed to keep then move in with her geeky, physics-loving brother who is trying very hard to find a girlfriend. While putting her bike together, Laurie discovers that she is missing a gear on her bicyclette so she makes do with what she has. Because of this, she breaks the chain on her bike one day, leading to her meeting with her soon-to-be best frien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |