Jeffrey St. Jules is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, who won the Claude Jutra Award in 2015 for his debut feature film '' Bang Bang Baby''. The film also won the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the

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Career

Originally from Fall River,

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,"TIFF 2014: Jeffrey St. Jules, Canada’s master of the surreal short film, tries on long form for size"
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'', September 4, 2014. St. Jules studied creative writing and film at

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. Prior to making ''Bang Bang Baby'', St. Jules wrote and directed a number of short films, including '' The Sadness of Johnson Joe Jangles'', '' The Tragic Story of Nling'', ''The Long Autumn'',"Inferno lights up Cinema of Sleep"
by Lauren Malyk at playbackonline.ca '' Let the Daylight Into the Swamp'' and a music video for

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's "National Anthem of Nowhere". He won the Jackson-Triggs Award for Best Emerging Canadian Filmmaker at the

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in 2005 for ''Joe Jangles'', and in the same year became the first Canadian film director ever admitted to the

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's residency program for emerging filmmakers. ''The Tragic Story of Nling'' was a

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nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the

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. ''Let the Daylight into the Swamp'', an experimental documentary film about his grandparents, was a shortlisted nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards. His second full-length feature film, '' Cinema of Sleep'', was released in 2021. St. Jules received a nomination for the

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's DGC Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film.Kelly Townsend
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'' Playback'', September 24, 2021.

Filmography

*'' The Sadness of Johnson Joe Jangles'' - 2004 *'' The Tragic Story of Nling'' - 2006 *'' Let the Daylight Into the Swamp'' - 2012 *'' Bang Bang Baby'' - 2014 *''The Rarebit Fiend'' - 2015 *'' Cinema of Sleep'' - 2021 *'' The Silent Planet'' - 2024

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* Film directors from Nova Scotia Canadian male screenwriters Best First Feature Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners People from the Halifax Regional Municipality Living people Canadian music video directors Canadian Film Centre alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Canadian screenwriters 21st-century Canadian male writers {{Canada-film-director-stub