Samuel Matteau is a Canadian film director from

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. He is most noted as co-director with Guillaume Fournier and Yannick Nolin of a trilogy of short documentary films about

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life and culture in

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. His first directed feature film was '' Squat''. The first film in the series, ''Laissez les bon temps rouler'', premiered in 2017. The second film in the series, ''

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'', premiered at the 2019

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. At the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival, the directors won the award for Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film. It was subsequently named to the

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's annual year-end

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list for short films in 2019, and received a

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nomination for Best Short Documentary at the

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in 2020. The third film, '' Belle River'', premiered at the 2022

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. It was named to the Canada's Top Ten list for short films in 2022, and was a

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nominee for Best Short Documentary at the

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''CTVM'', November 14, 2023. Matteau has also directed numerous short films on his own, including ''Le Combat silencieux'' (2012), ''Karim + Hadjer'' (2014) and ''Renouer'' (2022).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Matteau, Samuel Canadian documentary film directors Canadian documentary film producers Film directors from Quebec Film producers from Quebec Living people Year of birth missing (living people)