Maude Michaud (born December 23, 1983) is a Canadian

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and actress. She is best known for her first feature-length film ''Dys-'' (2014), which she wrote, directed, produced and edited.

Early life

Maude Michaud is from

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. She began drama lessons when she was nine years old. By the age of sixteen, she made her first short film, ''Finding Hope'', which was chosen for the official selection in Toronto's International Teen Movie Festival. By seventeen, her second short film, ''Spirits'', which was her first work in the

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, was also screened at this festival.

Education

Michaud did all of her post-collegiate studies at

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, where she obtained her

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and

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with a

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. She has since graduated with a

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. Her

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titled "Horror Grrrls: Resistance and Agency within the Interpretive Community of Women Horror Filmmakers" focuses primarily on women in the horror genre. It consisted of a written element as well as a documentary

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titled Bloody Breasts, which examined women's role in the horror film industry and tackled certain prepossessed notions about women's relation to this genre.

Career

By day, Michaud works for an organization which creates media content. Her position within the organization requires her to accommodate various events and projects. In 2001, Michaud founded her own Montreal-based film production company, Quirk Films. Through her production company, she has released various audio-visual works as well as some films, including her first feature-length film, ''Dys-''.

''Dys-''

In 2014 ''Dys-'', premiered at Montreal's International Fantasia Film Festival. The film chronicles a couple who quarantine themselves inside their condo when the news of a viral outbreak surfaces. The two main characters, whose marriage is in shambles, must face the mysterious pandemic while the proximity to one another only serves to pull them apart even further. Together, Eva and Sam are forced to confront their innermost demons.

Filmography

References

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