Jennifer Alleyn (born 1969) is a Canadian artist, filmmaker, writer and photographer who lives and works in

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Biography

The daughter of artist Edmund Alleyn, she was born in

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. She studied film at

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. Alleyn worked as a journalist for the newspapers ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' La Presse'' and for '' Elle Québec'' magazine. She travelled around the world while participating in the

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television program '' La Course destination monde''. Alleyn wrote and directed a segment "Aurore et Crépuscule" of the 1996 film ''

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''; ''Cosmos'' was included in the

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. Her 2003 film ''Svanok'' was awarded the prize for best short fiction film by the

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. In 2006, she made a film about her father, '' My Father's Studio (L’atelier de mon père, sur les traces d’Edmund Alleyn)''; the film was named best Canadian film at the in Montreal and also received a

Prix Gémeaux The Prix Gémeaux () or Gémeaux Awards honour achievements in Canadian television and digital media that is broadcast in French. It has been sponsored by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television since 1987. Introduced as a French-language eq ...

. She directed the 2010 film ''Dix fois Dix'' about painter

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, which received the Prix Tremplin pour le monde ARTV. In 2018, she directed and produced Impetus, a hybrid drama feature described by Denis Villeneuve as " Playful like a Godard or Varda film. Brilliant and moving". The film premiered at Slamdance, Utah and Torino, Italy. Alleyn was awarded the 2019 PRIX CREATION, by the Observatoire du Cinéma au Québec for "her outstanding contribution to Quebec cinema".

References

External links

Jenniferalleyn.com
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