Canadian
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actor
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screenwriter
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film director
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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; also known as the "Etrog Awards," for sc ...
18th Genie Awards
The 18th Genie Awards were held on 14 December 1997, to honour the best Canadian films of 1997.
Nominees and winners
The Genie Award
The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the b ...
2017 Toronto International Film Festival
The 42nd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 7 to 17 September 2017. There were fourteen programmes, with the Vanguard and City to City programmes both being retired from previous years, with the total number of films down b ...
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Government of Canada, Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is ...
. He is a founding member of the sketch comedy troupe Les Chick'n Swell in 1990, he began acting in stage roles including productions of Jean-Marc Dalpé's ''Eddy'' and Daniel Danis's ''Le Pont de pierres et la peau d'images''. Around the same time, he appeared in the television series ''4 et demi'' and ''
Radio Enfer
''Radio Enfer'' (French for ''Hell Radio'') is a Québécois sitcom broadcast on Canal Famille and its later incarnation, Vrak.TV, about a group of students at an unidentified high school managing their own high school radio station.
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'' and the films '' The Escort (L'Escorte)'' and ''The Countess of Baton Rouge''. His subsequent acting roles included the films '' Maelström'', ''
The Negro
''The Negro'' is a book by W. E. B. Du Bois published in 1915 and released in electronic form by Project Gutenberg in 2011. It is an overview of African-American history, tracing it as far back as the sub-Saharan cultures, including Great Zimbab ...
Miraculum
''Miraculum'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Daniel Grou and released on February 28, 2014.
Synopsis
The film follows the development of different stories at the same time. Simon (played by Gabriel Sabourin) finally returns to his hom ...
'', ''Les Maîtres du suspense'', ''
Amsterdam
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Les Invincibles
''Les Invincibles'' is a comedy/drama television series from Radio-Canada produced by Casablanca Productions and Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm.
The story is about four men in their early thirties signing a pact ordaining the simultaneous break-up o ...
'' and ''Le Gentleman''. He received a
Prix Jutra
The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec.Best Supporting Actor at the
17th Jutra Awards The 17th Jutra Awards
The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec.3rd Jutra Awards in 2001 for ''Lila'', before his feature-length debut '' Saint Martyrs of the Damned (Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés)'' was released in 2005. He followed up with '' Train to Nowhere (À quelle heure le train pour nulle part)'' in 2009, '' Crying Out (À l'origine d'un cri)'' in 2010,"Quebec films flock to Toronto fest; 'It's a business decision' -TIFF is where the commercial action is". ''
Montreal Gazette
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'', September 4, 2010. '' Tuktuq'' in 2016 and ''Ravenous'' in 2017.