Sylvain Guy is a Canadian screenwriter and film director from

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. He is most noted for the 2004 film '' Machine Gun Molly (Monica la mitraille)'', for which he and Luc Dionne won the

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for Best Adapted Screenplay at the

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in 2005. He was also previously nominated in the same category for ''

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(Liste noire)'' at the

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in 1996,"Nominees for the 1995 Genie Awards".

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, November 7, 1995. and subsequently at the

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in 2022 for ''

Confessions of a Hitman ''Confessions of a Hitman'' () is a Canadian crime drama film, directed by Luc Picard and released in 2021. Based on ''Gallant: confessions d’un tueur à gages'', a 2015 non-fiction book written by Éric Thibault and Félix Séguin about Canadian ...

(Confessions)''. His first film as a director, the short film '' Zie 37 Stagen'', was a Genie nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the

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in 1997. His feature film debut, ''The List'', was an English-language remake of ''Liste noire''. He subsequently directed the feature films ''

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'' (2009) and ''The Ultimate Pranx Case'' (2012), and wrote the screenplays for the films ''

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'', ''

Mafia Inc. ''Mafia Inc.'' is a 2019 Canadian crime drama film directed by Podz and scripted by Sylvain Guy. Based on the non-fiction book ''Mafia Inc: The Long, Bloody Reign of Canada's Sicilian Clan'' by journalists André Cédilot and André Noël, the f ...

'', ''Confessions of a Hitman'' and '' Victoire (La Cordonnière)''. In 2020 he was announced as the writer of a forthcoming biopic of Quebec singer

Diane Dufresne Diane Dufresne, (; born 30 September 1944) is a French Canadian singer and painter, and is known for singing a large repertoire of popular Quebec songs. Dufresne was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She lived in Paris from 1965 to 1967 where ...

. He wrote the 2023 television series '' Mégantic''.Guillaume Picard
"«Mégantic»: une œuvre chorale profondément humaine et touchante"
''

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'', February 7, 2023.

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