1st Genie Awards

1st Genie Awards

The 1st Genie Awards were the first ever Genie Awards. They were presented on March 20, 1980 and honoured films released in 1979. They were given out at a gala event at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto with Bruno Gerussi as host. A luncheon the day before the gala saw the non-feature film...

• Stan Cole, Murder By Decree
  Murder by Decree
  Murder by Decree is an Anglo-Canadian thriller film involving Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in the case of the serial murderer Jack the Ripper...
  
  
• Jean Beaudin
  Jean Beaudin
  Jean Beaudin is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 20 films since 1969. His film J.A. Martin Photographer, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, where Monique Mercure won the award for Best Actress. The film also won best Film, he won best Director, and Mercure...
  
  , Cordelia
• Ron Wisman, Fish Hawk
• Marcel Pothier, Heartbreak
• Debra Karen, Meatballs
  Meatballs (film)
  Meatballs is a 1979 Canadian comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman. It is noted for the first film appearance of Bill Murray in a starring role and for launching Reitman into a distinguished career of financially successful comedies including Stripes and Ghostbusters , both starring Murray...
  
  
• George Appleby, Wild Horse Hank
  Wild Horse Hank
  Wild Horse Hank is a movie filmed in 1978 directed by Eric Till starring Linda Blair, Michael Wincott and Richard Crenna. The movie is based on the teen novel The Wild Horse Killers, written by Mel Ellis in 1978.- Plot :...
  
  
• Debra Karen, Yesterday
  Yesterday (1981 film)
  Yesterday is a 1981 film directed by Lawrence Kent, starring Vincent Van Patten and Claire Pimparé. It is a love story of a young soldier maimed in Vietnam, who allows his former girlfriend to believe he's dead to spare her anguish.-Cast:...
  
  

2nd Genie Awards

2nd Genie Awards

The 2nd Genie Awards were held March 12, 1981, honouring Canadian films released the previous year. The ceremony was held at the Royal Alexandria Theatre and were hosted by Brian Linehan. The most notable sight of the evening was Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau escorting starlet Kim Cattrall...

• André Corriveau
  André Corriveau (filmmaker)
  André Corriveau is a film editor and director from Quebec, Canada. Corriveau won the Gemini Awards once , and the Genie Award twice...
  
  , Les Bons Débarras
  Les bons débarras
  Good Riddance is a 1980 French-language Canadian drama film. Directed by Francis Mankiewicz and written by Réjean Ducharme, the film concerns Manon , a rebellious young girl who lives with her mother Michelle and her alcoholic uncle Ti-Guy .-Cast:* Charlotte Laurier - Manon* Marie Tifo -...
  
  
• Pierre Jalbert
  Pierre Jalbert
  Pierre Jalbert is a Canadian skier, actor, and motion picture film and sound editor.He was christened Joseph Jacques Pierre-Paul Jalbert in Quebec City, Canada, the son of a newspaperman...
  
  , Final Assignment
  Final Assignment
  Final Assignment is a 1980 Canadian film written by Marc Rosen and directed by Paul Almond.-Plot:In this complex spy caper, Nicole is a Canadian broadcast journalist working on assignment in the former Soviet Union...
  
  
• Brian Ravok, Prom Night
• Tony Lower, The Hounds of Notre Dame
  The Hounds of Notre Dame
  - Plot :* Father Athol Murray is a hard working man who inspires his students to become better people through education and athletics.- Reception :* The film earned 9 Genie Award nominations in 1981 in the categories of:...
  
  
• Michael McLaverty, The Kidnapping of the President
  The Kidnapping of the President
  The Kidnapping of the President is a 1980 political thriller film made by Presidential Films and Sefel Films and distributed by Crown International Pictures. It was produced and directed by George Mendeluk and co-produced by John Ryan from a screenplay by Richard Murphy and Charles Templeton,...
  
  

3rd Genie Awards

3rd Genie Awards

The 3rd Genie Awards were awarded March, 1982 at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto and honoured Canadian films released in 1981. It was again hosted by Brian Linehan, with magician Doug Henning assisting.Best Motion Picture...

• Ron Wisman, Ticket to Heaven
  Ticket to Heaven
  Ticket to Heaven is a 1981 Canadian film about the recruiting of a man into a group portrayed to be a cult, and his life in the group until forcibly extracted by his family and friends. The film was directed by Ralph L. Thomas...
  
  
• Gordon McLellan, Alligator Shoes
• Ralph Brunjes, Cries in the Night
• Gary Oppenheimer, Head On
  Head On (1980 film)
  Head On is a 1980 Canadian drama film directed by Michael Grant. It was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Sally Kellerman - Michelle Keys* Stephen Lack - Peter Hill* Lawrence Dane - Frank Keys* J.P...
  
  
• Ronald Sanders
  Ronald Sanders
  -Career:Ron won Genie Awards for his work on Eastern Promises , eXistenZ , Crash , and Dead Ringers . He has collaborated extensively with director David Cronenberg; since 1979, he has edited most of the Cronenberg's films....
  
  , Scanners
  Scanners
  Scanners is a 1981 science-fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan...
  
  
• Arla Saare, Silence of the North
  Silence of the North
  Silence of the North is a 1981 Canadian film starring Tom Skerritt, Gordon Pinsent, and Ellen Burstyn. The three main actors were nominated for Genie Awards, as was the director, Allan King....
  
  

4th Genie Awards

4th Genie Awards

The 4th annual Genie Awards were held March 23, 1983 at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto. There ceremony was hosted by comedian Dave Thomas.-Award winners:Best PictureWinner: The Grey Fox, Peter O'BrianOther Nominees:...

• Yves Langlois
  Yves Langlois
  Yves Langlois a.k.a. Pierre Seguin was a Canadian terrorist and member of the Quebec terrorist group Front de Libération du Quebec , a group most notably known for the 1970 October crisis...
  
  , Quest for Fire
  Quest for Fire
  Quest for Fire is a 1911 Belgian novel by "J.-H. Rosny", the pseudonym of two brothers; the author was likely the elder of the two, Joseph Henri Honoré Boex . It was first published in English in 1967....
  
  
• Ron Wisman, Harry Tracy
  Harry Tracy
  Harry Tracy was an outlaw in the closing days of the Old West. His real name was Harry Severns.He is said to have run with Butch Cassidy and the Hole in the Wall Gang, and by the time he'd reached adulthood he was actively taking part in acts of robbery and theft...
  
  
• Frank Irvine
  Frank Irvine
  Frank Irvine was a federal judge, and later the dean of Cornell Law School.-Biography:He was born on September 15, 1858 in Sharon, Pennsylvania....
  
  , The Grey Fox
• Susan Martin
  Susan Martin
  Susan W. Martin is the president of Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. When she took office on July 7, 2008, Martin became the first female president in the University’s 160 year history...
  
  , Threshold

5th Genie Awards

5th Genie Awards

The 5th Genie Awards were presented on March 21, 1984, at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto. The awards ceremony was hosted by Louis Del Grande.Best Motion PictureWinner: The Terry Fox Story, Robert M...

• Ron Wisman, The Terry Fox Story
  The Terry Fox Story
  The Terry Fox Story is a 1983 film biopic of Canadian amputee and runner Terry Fox. It was written by Howard Hume, John Kastner and Rose Kastner, and directed by Ralph L. Thomas. The film stars Eric Fryer as Fox, Chris Makepeace as his brother Darrell, and Robert Duvall as Fox's publicist, Bill...
  
  
• Stan Cole, A Christmas Story
  A Christmas Story
  A Christmas Story is a 1983 American Christmas comedy film based on the short stories and semi-fictional anecdotes of author and raconteur Jean Shepherd, including material from his books In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories. It was directed by Bob Clark...
  
  
• André Corriveau
  André Corriveau (filmmaker)
  André Corriveau is a film editor and director from Quebec, Canada. Corriveau won the Gemini Awards once , and the Genie Award twice...
  
  , Bonheur d'occasion
• Doris Dyck, Jack Darcus
  Jack Darcus
  Jack Winston Darcus is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and painter. Since graduating from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1963, Jack Darcus has divided his artistic career between painting and filmmaking...
  
  , Bill Roxborough, Ingrid Rosen, Deserters
• Tony Lower, The Wars
  The Wars
  The Wars is a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley telling the story of a young Canadian officer in World War I. First published by Clarke Irwin, it won the Governor General's Award for fiction in 1977.-Plot overview:...
  
  
• Ronald Sanders
  Ronald Sanders
  -Career:Ron won Genie Awards for his work on Eastern Promises , eXistenZ , Crash , and Dead Ringers . He has collaborated extensively with director David Cronenberg; since 1979, he has edited most of the Cronenberg's films....
  
  , Videodrome
  Videodrome
  Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and singer Deborah Harry. Set in Toronto during the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small cable station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal featuring...
  
  

6th Genie Awards

6th Genie Awards

The 6th Genie Awards is generally considered the pinnacle of the Canadian Genie Awards' popularity. It was the first time the Genies were broadcast live across Canada and they drew 1.9 million viewers, a record never since equalled. The event, held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre was...

• André Corriveau
  André Corriveau (filmmaker)
  André Corriveau is a film editor and director from Quebec, Canada. Corriveau won the Gemini Awards once , and the Genie Award twice...
  
  , La Guerre du tuques
• Monique Fortier, Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe
• Frank Irvine
  Frank Irvine
  Frank Irvine was a federal judge, and later the dean of Cornell Law School.-Biography:He was born on September 15, 1858 in Sharon, Pennsylvania....
  
  , My Kind of Town

7th Genie Awards

7th Genie Awards

The 7th Genie Awards were held March 20, 1986 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. It was co-hosted by Leslie Nielsen and Catherine Mary Stewart.-Award winners:Best Motion PictureWinner: My American Cousin, Peter O'BrianOther Nominees:...

• Haida Paul, My American Cousin
  My American Cousin
  My American Cousin is a Canadian drama film, released in 1985. Written and directed by Sandy Wilson based on her own childhood, the film stars Margaret Langrick as Sandy Wilcox, a pre-teen girl growing up on a ranch in rural Penticton, British Columbia in the late 1950s...
  
  
• David Wilson, 90 Days
  90 Days
  90 Days was "a video report about issues, events and people important to you and McDonnell Douglas." The video magazine was produced in St. Louis, MO and distributed at the end of every business quarter through the mail to employees and shareholders of the company in VHS format...
  
  
• Ron Wisman, Joshua Then and Now
  Joshua Then and Now
  Joshua Then and Now is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Mordecai Richler, first published in 1980 by McClelland and Stewart. Richler adapted it into the feature film Joshua Then and Now, starring James Woods, Alan Arkin, and Gabrielle Lazure; directed by Ted Kotcheff who had previously...
  
  
• Sally Paterson, Overnight
• Richard Martin
  Richard Martin (director)
  Richard Martin , is an award-winning Canadian television director, film director and film editor. He was born in Vancouver and is the son of comedian Dick Martin...
  
  , Samuel Lount
  Samuel Lount
  Samuel Lount was a businessman and political figure in the province of Upper Canada. He participated in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837....
  
  

8th Genie Awards

8th Genie Awards

The 8th annual Genie Awards were held in 1987 to honour Canadian films made the previous year. The awards were dominated by Denys Arcand's Le Déclin de l'empire américain...

• Monique Fortier, Le Déclin de l'empire américain
  Le Déclin de l'empire américain
  The Decline of the American Empire is a 1986 Québécois comedy/drama film directed by Denys Arcand. It was followed by a sequel, The Barbarian Invasions in 2003.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• André Corriveau
  André Corriveau (filmmaker)
  André Corriveau is a film editor and director from Quebec, Canada. Corriveau won the Gemini Awards once , and the Genie Award twice...
  
  , Pouvoir Intime
  Pouvoir intime
  Pouvoir intime is a 1986 Canadian thriller film.- Plot :A government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy figure, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armoured truck...
  
  
• Michael Jones, The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood
  The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood
  The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood is a surreal Canadian comedy film, released in 1986. The film was directed by Andy Jones and written by Andy and Mike Jones, with the collaboration of a number of workshop participants...
  
  

9th Genie Awards

9th Genie Awards

The 9th annual Genie Awards were held March 22, 1988 and honoured Canadian films released in 1987. The ceremony was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was co-hosted by Megan Follows and Gordon Pinsent...

• Michel Arcand
  Michel Arcand
  Michel Arcand is a Canadian film editor.Born in Val-d'Or, Quebec, Arcand has won three Genie Awards for Best Achievement in Editing for the films The Rocket, Léolo and Un zoo la nuit and five nominations in the same category as well as other nominations for a Jutra Award and from the Directors...
  
  , Un Zoo La Nuit
  Night Zoo
  Night Zoo is a 1987 Canadian film. It is directed and written by Jean-Claude Lauzon. The drama made its debut at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Bruce MacDonald, Atom Egoyan
  Atom Egoyan
  Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...
  
  , Family Viewing
  Family Viewing
  - Plot :Van's father, Stan , is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen . Although he could afford having her at home, she is spending her days watching TV in an old people's home. Van often visits her. He meets Aline , whose...
  
  

10th Genie Awards

10th Genie Awards

The 10th annual Genie Awards were held on March 22, 1989. This was in the middle of a strike at the CBC that caused the ceremony to be scaled down and several nominees to boycott the awards in sympathy. The awards were dominated by David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers which won ten awards...

• Ronald Sanders, Dead Ringers
  Dead Ringers (film)
  Dead Ringers is a 1988 psychological horror film starring Jeremy Irons in a dual role as identical twin gynecologists. Director David Cronenberg co-wrote the screenplay with Norman Snider; their script was based on the novel Twins by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland...
  
  
• Michel Arcand, A Corps Perdu
  À corps perdu
  À corps perdu is a 1988 Canadian/Swiss French-language drama film.- Plot :Pierre is a photojournalist from Montreal who's working on a reportage in Nicaragua. There he sees many people being executed and he takes photographs of them...
  
  
• Susan Martin, Alan Lee, A Winter Tan
  A Winter Tan
  A Winter Tan is a Canadian drama film, released in 1987. Based on the book Give Sorrow Words by Maryse Holder, the film stars Jackie Burroughs as Holder....
  
  

11th Genie Awards

11th Genie Awards

The 11th annual Genie Awards were presented March 20, 1990 and honoured Canadian films released the previous year. For the first time ever the awards were broadcast by CTV, rather than CBC. Despite an extensive advertising campaign the ratings plummeted with only half as many people watching...

• Isabelle Dedieu, Jesus of Montreal
  Jesus of Montreal
  -Plot and allegory:The film centers on a group of actors in Montreal, Canada who are gathered by Daniel, an actor hired by a Roman Catholic site of pilgrimage to present a Passion play in its gardens....
  
  
• Christopher Tate, Bye Bye Blues
  Bye Bye Blues (film)
  Bye Bye Blues is a Canadian film, released in 1989. It was written and directed by Anne Wheeler and produced by Alberta Motion Picture Development Corporation with assistance of Allarcom Limited.-Plot:...
  
  
• Frank Irvine, The First Season

12th Genie Awards

12th Genie Awards

The 12th annual Genie Awards were held on November 26, 1991, and honoured Canadian films released in 1990. The awards were moved from their previous March date after the disastrous ratings of the previous awards. The format was also changed and the eligible voters reduced to 130. The ceremony was...

• David Wilson, The Company of Strangers
  The Company of Strangers
  The Company of Strangers is a Canadian film, released in 1990. It was directed by Cynthia Scott, and written by Scott, Sally Bochner, David Wilson and Gloria Demers...
  
  
• Tim Wellburn, Black Robe
  Black Robe
  Black Robe is a historical novel by Brian Moore based on the Jesuit missionaries in New France. It was published in 1985.The novel takes place in the 17th century in New France. It follows Father Laforgue, a French Jesuit priest traveling up river to repopulate the mission to the Huron Indians...
  
  
• Allan Lee
  Allan Lee
  Allan Lee is a film editor that has been nominated for two Genie Awards .In 1991 Lee was nominated for the Genie for Best Achievement in Film Editing for Chaindance , and in 1989 he was nominated for the Genie for Best Achievement in Film Editing for A Winter Tan , along with Susan Martin...
  
  , Chaindance
  Chaindance
  Chaindance is a 1990 Canadian drama film. The film stars Michael Ironside, Brad Dourif, Rae Dawn Chong, and Don S. Davis as "Sergeant".- Plot :...
  
  
• Michel Arcand, Le Party
• Ronald Sanders, Perfectly Normal
  Perfectly Normal
  Perfectly Normal is a Canadian comedy film, released in 1991. Directed by Yves Simoneau and written by Eugene Lipinski and Paul Quarrington, the film starred Robbie Coltrane, Michael Riley and Kenneth Welsh.-Cast:*Robbie Coltrane as Alonzo Turner...
  
  
• André Corriveau
  André Corriveau (filmmaker)
  André Corriveau is a film editor and director from Quebec, Canada. Corriveau won the Gemini Awards once , and the Genie Award twice...
  
  , Vincent and Me
  Vincent and Me
  Vincent and Me is a 1990 family film. The movie was directed by Michael Rubbo and is the 11th in the Tales for All series of children's movies created by Les Productions la Fête....
  
  

13th Genie Awards

13th Genie Awards

The 13th annual Genie Awards were held 1992 and honoured Canadian films released in 1991. They were dominated by the Canadian/British/Japanese co-production Naked Lunch.-Best Motion Picture:...

• Michel Arcand, Léolo
  Léolo
  Léolo is a 1992 film by Quebecois director Jean-Claude Lauzon.The film tells the story of Léo Lauzon , a young boy living in a Montreal tenement with his dysfunctional family. He uses his active fantasy life and the book L'avalée des avalés by Québécois novelist Réjean Ducharme to escape the...
  
  
• André Corriveau
  André Corriveau (filmmaker)
  André Corriveau is a film editor and director from Quebec, Canada. Corriveau won the Gemini Awards once , and the Genie Award twice...
  
  , Being at Home with Claude
  Being at Home with Claude
  Being at Home with Claude is a 1992 Canadian drama film directed by Jean Beaudin and based on the play by René-Daniel Dubois.The film stars Roy Dupuis as Yves, a gay man who has just murdered his lover Claude , and is attempting to explain his reasons to the police investigator .At the 13th Genie...
  
  
• Lara Mazur, Bordertown Café
  Bordertown Café
  Bordertown Café is a Canadian drama film, originally released in 1992. The screenplay was written by Kelly Rebar based on her award-winning 1990 play of the same name, and the film was directed by Norma Bailey. The film stars Janet Wright and Susan Hogan...
  
  
• Michael Pacek
  Michael Pacek
  Michael Pacek is a Canadian film editor.Michael has been nominated for three Genie awards for film editing. He won two Genie Awards for his work on Bruce McDonald's Dance Me Outside ....
  
  , Highway 61
  Highway 61 (film)
  Highway 61 is a 1991 film by Canadian director Bruce McDonald.- Synopsis :The film stars Don McKellar as Pokey Jones, an orphaned barber in a small town near Thunder Bay, Ontario who dreams of becoming a jazz musician...
  
  
• Bruce Lange, North of Pittsburgh

14th Genie Awards

14th Genie Awards

-Best Motion Picture:*Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, Niv Fichman, producer*La Florida, Pierre Sarrazin and Claude Bonin, producers*Harmony Cats, Richard Davis and Alan Morinis, producers*The Lotus Eaters, Sharon McGowan, producer...

• Gaétan Huot, Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
• Debra Rurak, Harmony Cats
  Harmony Cats
  - Plot :Harmony Cats is about a violinist named Graham Braithwaite who plays with a British Columbia symphony. One day, the symphony stops playing permantently and Graham is left to find work elsewhere...
  
  
• Susan Shipton
  Susan Shipton
  Susan Shipton is an award-winning Canadian film editor.Shipton has collaborated with director Atom Egoyan on eight projects. Her editing credits include The Adjuster, Love and Death on Long Island, I Love a Man in Uniform, Foolproof, When Night Is Falling, Breakfast with Scot, Exotica, Where the...
  
  , I Love a Man in Uniform
  I Love a Man in Uniform (film)
  I Love a Man in Uniform is a Canadian film, directed by David Wellington and released in 1993.-Plot:The film, a dark psychological drama, stars Tom McCamus as Henry Adler, a bank employee and struggling actor who finally gets his big break, being cast as a police officer in a television series...
  
  
• Roushell Goldstein, Paris, France
  Paris, France (film)
  Paris, France is a 1993 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Jerry Ciccoritti and written by Tom Walmsley.-Plot:Lucy is a frustrated erotic novelist exploring whether a weekend of sexual passion with Sloan , a bisexual poet, can liberate her from writer's block.-Cast:* Leslie Hope as Lucy* Peter...
  
  
• Susan Shipton, The Lotus Eaters

15th Genie Awards

15th Genie Awards

-Best Motion Picture:*Exotica, Atom Egoyan and Camelia Frieberg, producers*Double Happiness, Rose Lam Waddell and Stephen Hegyes, producers*Louis 19, le roi des ondes, Jacques Dorfmann and Richard Sadler, producers...

• Alison Grace, Double Happiness
  Double Happiness (film)
  Double Happiness is a 1994 film by Canadian director Mina Shum, co-produced by First Generations Films and the National Film Board of Canada....
  
  
• Susan Shipton, Exotica
  Exotica
  Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same title, popular during the 1950s to mid-1960s, typically with the suburban set who came of age during World War II. The musical colloquialism, exotica, means tropical ersatz: the non-native, pseudo experience of Oceania...
  
  
• Denis Papillon, Louis 19, le roi des ondes
  Louis 19, le roi des ondes
  Louis 19, le roi des ondes is a Canadian comedy film, released in 1994.The film stars Martin Drainville as Louis Jobin, a television fanatic who wins a contest to be on TV...
  
  
• Jacques Gagne, Mon Amie Max
  Mon amie Max
  My Friend Max is a Canadian 1994 film, written by Guy Fournier and Jefferson Lewis, directed by Michel Brault.-Plot summary:The film is set in contemporary Québec City, Québec....
  
  
• Michel Arcand, Mouvements du Desir

16th Genie Awards

16th Genie Awards

The 16th Genie Awards were held on January 14, 1996, to honour films released in 1995. The ceremony took place in Montreal, at Société Radio-Canada's Studio 42....

• Michael Pacek
  Michael Pacek
  Michael Pacek is a Canadian film editor.Michael has been nominated for three Genie awards for film editing. He won two Genie Awards for his work on Bruce McDonald's Dance Me Outside ....
  
  , Dance Me Outside
  Dance Me Outside
  Dance Me Outside is a 1995 drama film directed and co-written by Bruce McDonald. It was based on a book by W.P. Kinsella,-Plot:Set on the Kidabanesee reserve in Northern Ontario. Silas Crow is a young man confused about his direction in life; he wants to take an automobile mechanic's course in...
  
  
• Michel Arcand
  Michel Arcand
  Michel Arcand is a Canadian film editor.Born in Val-d'Or, Quebec, Arcand has won three Genie Awards for Best Achievement in Editing for the films The Rocket, Léolo and Un zoo la nuit and five nominations in the same category as well as other nominations for a Jutra Award and from the Directors...
  
  , Eldorado
• Emmanuelle Castro, Le Confessional
  Le Confessional
  The Confessional is a 1994 mystery / drama film directed by Robert Lepage.The film is set in Quebec City, in two distinct time periods. In the present day, Pierre Lamontagne searches for his brother Marc to help unravel a family mystery...
  
  
• Jean-Marc Vallée
  Jean-Marc Vallée
  Jean-Marc Vallée is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. He is best known for the film C.R.A.Z.Y. which is one of the most successful films in Quebec history, both financially and critically...
  
  , Liste Noire
• Susan Maggi
  Susan Maggi
  Susan Maggi is a Canadian film editor. She is a four-time Genie Award nominee and has also been nominated for two Gemini Awards for "Best Picture Editing in a Dramatic Program or Series"...
  
  , Rude
  Rude (film)
  Rude is a 1995 Canadian crime film directed by Clement Virgo. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Maurice Dean Wint - General* Rachael Crawford - Maxine* Clark Johnson - Reece...
  
  

17th Genie Awards

17th Genie Awards

The 17th Genie Awards were held on November 27, 1996, to honour films released in late 1995 and 1996. They were the second Genie Award ceremony held in that year; the 16th Genie Awards were delayed from the fall of 1995 and took place in January 1996 instead.-Best Motion Picture:*Lilies, Robin...

• Ronald Sanders
  Ronald Sanders
  -Career:Ron won Genie Awards for his work on Eastern Promises , eXistenZ , Crash , and Dead Ringers . He has collaborated extensively with director David Cronenberg; since 1979, he has edited most of the Cronenberg's films....
  
  , Crash
  Crash (1996 film)
  Crash is a 1996 Canadian/British drama thriller film written and directed by David Cronenberg based on the J. G. Ballard 1973 novel of the same name. It tells the story of a group of people who take sexual pleasure from car accidents, a notable form of paraphilia. The film generated considerable...
  
  
• Reg Harkema, Hard Core Logo
  Hard Core Logo
  Hard Core Logo is a 1996 Canadian mockumentary adapted by Noel Baker from the novel of the same name by author Michael Turner. Director Bruce McDonald illustrates the self-destruction of punk rock...
  
  
• André Corriveau
  André Corriveau (filmmaker)
  André Corriveau is a film editor and director from Quebec, Canada. Corriveau won the Gemini Awards once , and the Genie Award twice...
  
  , Lilies
• Susan Shipton
  Susan Shipton
  Susan Shipton is an award-winning Canadian film editor.Shipton has collaborated with director Atom Egoyan on eight projects. Her editing credits include The Adjuster, Love and Death on Long Island, I Love a Man in Uniform, Foolproof, When Night Is Falling, Breakfast with Scot, Exotica, Where the...
  
  , Long Days Journey into Night
• Susan Maggi
  Susan Maggi
  Susan Maggi is a Canadian film editor. She is a four-time Genie Award nominee and has also been nominated for two Gemini Awards for "Best Picture Editing in a Dramatic Program or Series"...
  
  , The Boy's Club

18th Genie Awards

18th Genie Awards

-Best Picture:*The Sweet Hereafter, Atom Egoyan and Camelia Frieberg, producers*Cosmos, Roger Frappier, producer*The Hanging Garden, Thom Fitzgerald and Louise Garfield, producers*Karmina, Nicole Robert, producer...

• Susan Shipton, The Sweet Hereafter
  The Sweet Hereafter
  The Sweet Hereafter is a 1991 novel by American author Russell Banks. It is set in a small town in the aftermath of a deadly school bus accident that has killed most of the town's children...
  
  
• Pia Di Ciaula
  Pia Di Ciaula
  Pia Di Ciaula has been the principal film editor on a number of major American, British, and Canadian films and TV shows. Di Ciaula was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Editing twice: for Intimate Relations and Regeneration . Di Ciaula was also nominated for a Gemini Award...
  
  , Intimate Relations
• Gaétan Huot, Karmina
  Karmina
  Karmina is an American pop/rock music duo of sister singer-songwriters Kelly Rudisill and Kamille Rudisill . Karmina means “song” in Latin...
  
  
• Richard Comeau, La Comtesse de Baton Rouge
• Susan Shanks, The Hanging Garden
  The Hanging Garden
  The Hanging Garden is a 1997 British/Canadian movie written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald that is about the duality of life and death and the way seemingly very different choices in life can lead to similar outcomes....
  
  

19th Genie Awards

19th Genie Awards

-Best Motion Picture:*The Red Violin, Niv Fichman, producer*Last Night, Daniel Iron and Niv Fichman, producers*Regeneration, Allan Scott and Peter Simpson, producers*Rupert's Land, Bill Thumm and Scott Kennedy, producers...

• Jeff Warren, Such a Long Journey
• John Sanders, Cube
  Cube (film)
  Cube is a 1997 Canadian science fiction psychological thriller/horror film directed by Vincenzo Natali. The film was a successful product of the Canadian Film Centre's First Feature Project....
  
  
• Reginald Harkema, Last Night
• Pia Di Ciaula
  Pia Di Ciaula
  Pia Di Ciaula has been the principal film editor on a number of major American, British, and Canadian films and TV shows. Di Ciaula was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Editing twice: for Intimate Relations and Regeneration . Di Ciaula was also nominated for a Gemini Award...
  
  , Regeneration
  Regeneration (1997 film)
  Regeneration is a 1997 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Pat Barker. The film is directed by Gillies MacKinnon. It was released as Behind the Lines in the USA in 1998.-Plot:...
  
  
• Gaëtan Huot, The Red Violin
  The Red Violin
  The Red Violin is a 1998 Canadian drama film directed by François Girard. It spans three centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a mysterious violin and its many owners...
  
  

20th Genie Awards

20th Genie Awards

The 20th Genie Awards were held in 2000 to honour films released in 1999. The ceremony was hosted by Patrick McKenna.-Best Motion Picture:*Sunshine, Andras Hamori and Robert Lantos, producers...

• Ronald Sanders
  Ronald Sanders
  -Career:Ron won Genie Awards for his work on Eastern Promises , eXistenZ , Crash , and Dead Ringers . He has collaborated extensively with director David Cronenberg; since 1979, he has edited most of the Cronenberg's films....
  
  , eXistenZ
  EXistenZ
  eXistenZ is a 1999 body horror/science fiction film by Canadian director David Cronenberg. It stars Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jude Law....
  
  
• Yves Langois, Jean-François Bergeron, Alegría
• Susan Shanks, Michael Weir, Beefcake
  Beefcake (film)
  Beefcake is a docu-drama homage to the muscle magazines of the 1940s, '50s, and '60s—in particular, Physique Pictorial magazine, published by Bob Mizer of the Athletic Model Guild. It was inspired by a picture book by F...
  
  
• André Corriveau
  André Corriveau (filmmaker)
  André Corriveau is a film editor and director from Quebec, Canada. Corriveau won the Gemini Awards once , and the Genie Award twice...
  
  , Histoires d'hiver
• Alain Baril, Matroni et moi

21st Genie Awards

21st Genie Awards

The 21st Genie Awards were held in 2001 to honour films released in 2000. The ceremony was hosted by Brian Linehan.-Best Motion Picture:*Maelström, Roger Frappier and Luc Vandal, producers...

• Susan Shipton, Possible Worlds
  Possible Worlds (film)
  Possible Worlds is a 2000 Canadian film adaptation of the play of the same name. The film is directed by Robert Lepage, and stars Tom McCamus and Tilda Swinton...
  
  
• Hélène Girard, Les Muses Orphelines
• Richard Comeau, Maelström
  Maelström (film)
  Maelström is a 2000 Canadian film by Québécois writer-director Denis Villeneuve. It stars Marie-Josée Croze as a depressed, alcoholic woman who becomes romantically involved with the son of a man she believes to have killed in a hit and run accident....
  
  
• Susan Maggi, New Waterford Girl
  New Waterford Girl
  New Waterford Girl is a Canadian drama-comedy film, released in 1999. The film was directed by Allan Moyle, and written by Tricia Fish.New Waterford Girl stars Liane Balaban as Agnes-Marie "Moonie" Pottie, a teenager in New Waterford, Nova Scotia who dreams of life beyond her small-town home...
  
  
• Michel Arcand
  Michel Arcand
  Michel Arcand is a Canadian film editor.Born in Val-d'Or, Quebec, Arcand has won three Genie Awards for Best Achievement in Editing for the films The Rocket, Léolo and Un zoo la nuit and five nominations in the same category as well as other nominations for a Jutra Award and from the Directors...
  
  , The Art of War
  The Art of War
  The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise that is attributed to Sun Tzu , a high ranking military general and strategist during the late Spring and Autumn period...
  
  

22nd Genie Awards

22nd Genie Awards

The 22nd Genie Awards were held in 2002 to honour films released in 2001. The ceremony was hosted by Brian Linehan.-Best Motion Picture:*Atanarjuat, Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk, Germaine Wong and Paul Apak Angilirq, producers...

• Zacharias Kunuk
  Zacharias Kunuk
  Zacharias Kunuk, is a Canadian Inuk producer and director most notable for his film Atanarjuat, the first Canadian dramatic feature film produced completely in Inuktitut...
  
  , Marie-Christine Sarda, Norman Cohn, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
• Jon Gregory, Deeply
  Deeply
  Deeply is a 2000 movie directed by Sheri Elwood, starring Julia Brendler, Lynn Redgrave and Kirsten Dunst.-Synopsis:Claire McKay —having suffered the death of her boyfriend—is brought by her mother to Ironbound Island in the hopes that time away from the city will allow her to recover emotionally...
  
  
• Wiebke von Carolsfeld, Eisenstein
  Eisenstein (film)
  Eisenstein is a 2000 film about Sergei Eisenstein, starring Simon McBurney, Raymond Coulthard and Jacqueline McKenzie....
  
  
• Brett C. Sullivan, Ginger Snaps
• Ross Weber, Last Wedding
  Last Wedding
  Last Wedding is a 2001 Canadian comedy drama film written and directed by Bruce Sweeney. It opened the 26th annual Toronto International Film Festival in 2001...
  
  

23rd Genie Awards

23rd Genie Awards

The 23rd Genie Awards were held in 2003 to honour films released in 2002. The ceremony was hosted by Arsinée Khanjian and Peter Keleghan.-Best Motion Picture:*Ararat, Atom Egoyan and Robert Lantos, producers...

• Lara Mazur, Suddenly Naked
  Suddenly Naked
  Suddenly Naked is a 2001 drama film directed by Anne Wheeler and written by Elyse Friedman.-Plot:Jackie York is a famous novelist with a secret: she is suffering from writer's block and is unable to write her much-anticipated novel. After being used and then dumped by a wannabe movie director,...
  
  
• Roberto Silvi, Bill MacDonald
  Bill MacDonald
  William "Bill" MacDonald was a Scottish heavyweight wrestling champion. He died in 1964, and was the father of actor Kenneth MacDonald ....
  
  , Between Strangers
  Between Strangers
  -Cast:*Sophia Loren as Olivia*Mira Sorvino as Natalia Bauer*Deborah Kara Unger as Catherine*Pete Postlethwaite as John*Julian Richings as Nigel*Klaus Maria Brandauer as Alexander Bauer*Malcolm McDowell as Alan Baxter*Len Doncheff as Grocery Store Owner...
  
  
• Cynthia Ott, Michael Dowse
  Michael Dowse
  Michael Dowse is a Canadian film director.Born and raised in London, Ontario, he was trained as a film editor. His first full-length movie, FUBAR was shot on a digital camera with a tiny budget, but was selected by the Sundance Film Festival and screened on the prestigious midnight slot, which had...
  
  , FUBAR
  FUBAR: The Movie
  FUBAR is a 2002 mockumentary film, directed by Michael Dowse, based on the lives of two lifelong friends and head-bangers living out their lives, constantly drinking beer. FUBAR debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in the 'Park City at Midnight' category, which previously launched such films as...
  
  
• George Browne, Lorraine Dufour, Le nèg'
• Yvann Thibaudeau, Marlon Paul, Québec-Montréal

24th Genie Awards

24th Genie Awards

The 24th Genie Awards were held in 2004, to honour films released in 2003. The ceremony was hosted by Scott Thompson.-Best Motion Picture:*Les invasions barbares, Denise Robert, Daniel Louis and Fabienne Vonier, producers...

• David Wharnsby
  David Wharnsby
  David Wharnsby is a Genie and Gemini award winning Canadian film editor who lives in Toronto.Some of Wharnsby's numerous credits include; the CBC's miniseries Northern Town, directed by Gary Burns; At The Hotel, directed by Ken Finkleman; TIFF top ten films, I, Claudia, by Chris Abraham; The...
  
  , The Saddest Music in the World
  The Saddest Music in the World
  The Saddest Music in the World is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Guy Maddin. It stars Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox and Ross McMillan....
  
  
• Dominique Fortin, Seducing Doctor Lewis
  Seducing Doctor Lewis
  La grande séduction is a 2003 Québécois comedy film and the first film directed by Jean-François Pouliot. The script was written by Ken Scott. It won the "Audience Award" at 2004 Sundance Film Festival...
  
  
• Isabelle Dedieu, The Barbarian Invasions
• Alison Grace, The Snow Walker
  The Snow Walker
  The Snow Walker is a 2003 Canadian film based on the short story "Walk Well, My Brother" by Farley Mowat. It was written and directed by Charles Martin Smith and starred Barry Pepper, James Cromwell, and Annabella Piugattuk....
  
  
• Michael Weir, The Wild Dogs
  The Wild Dogs
  - Plot :Set in the city of Bucharest, Romania, the action is confined to a week in the life of the various characters. Alberta Watson plays the bored wife of a diplomat. Director and screenwriter Thom Fitzgerald plays a Canadian pornographer...
  
  

25th Genie Awards

25th Genie Awards

The 25th Genie Awards were held on March 21, 2005 to honour the best Canadian films released in 2004. The awards took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto.Andrea Martin was the host.-Best Motion Picture:...

• Dominique Fortin, Head in the Clouds
  Head in the Clouds
  Head in the Clouds is a 2004 drama film written and directed by John Duigan. The original screenplay focuses on the choices young lovers must make as they find themselves surrounded by increasing political unrest in late-1930s Europe.-Plot synopsis:...
  
  
• Reginald Harkema, Childstar
  Childstar
  Childstar is a 2004 comedy film directed and written by Don McKellar. It was screened at several film festivals between September 2004 and July 2005.-Plot:...
  
  
• Richard Comeau, The Five of Us
  Elles étaient cinq
  Elles étaient cinq is a Québécois film, directed and written by Ghyslaine Côté...
  
  
• Jean-François Bergeron, The Last Tunnel
• Yvann Thibaudeau, Ma vie en cinemascope
  Ma vie en cinémascope
  Ma vie en cinémascope is a Quebec, Canada movie released in 2004. This biographical drama depicted the career of Quebec singer Alys Robi, as portrayed by Pascale Bussières...
  
  

26th Genie Awards

26th Genie Awards

The 26th Genie Awards were held on March 13, 2006 to honour films released in 2005. The ceremony was held at the Carlu theatre in Toronto. The ceremony was hosted by Lisa Ray and Terry David Mulligan.-Best Picture:...

• Paul Jutras, C.R.A.Z.Y.
  C.R.A.Z.Y.
  C.R.A.Z.Y. is a 2005 French-language Canadian film from Quebec. The film was directed and co-written by Jean-Marc Vallée. It tells the story of Zac, a young gay man dealing with homophobia and heterosexism while growing up with four brothers and a conservative father in 1960s and 1970s...
  
  
• Stuart Gazzard, It's All Gone Pete Tong
  It's All Gone Pete Tong
  -CD 1:#"Pacific State" - 808 State #"Cloud Watch" - Lol Hammond#"Dry Pool Suicide" - Graham Massey#"Moonlight Sonata" - Graham Massey#"Baby Piano" - Lol Hammond#"Ku Da Ta" - Pete Tong...
  
  
• Jeremy Peter Allen
  Jeremy Peter Allen
  Jeremy Peter Allen is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He grew up in Quebec City, in the Province of Quebec...
  
  , Manners of Dying
  Manners of Dying
  Manners of Dying is a 2004 Canadian drama film based on the short story of the same name by Yann Martel, winner of the Man Booker Prize for his book, The Life of Pi.- Plot :...
  
  
• Colin Monie, Water
• Susan Shipton, Where the Truth Lies
  Where the Truth Lies
  Where the Truth Lies is a 2005 Canadian/British drama film, written and directed by Atom Egoyan. It stars Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, and Alison Lohman, and is based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Rupert Holmes.-Plot:...
  
  

27th Genie Awards

27th Genie Awards

The 27th Genie Awards were held on February 13, 2007 to honour films released in 2006. The ceremony was located at the Carlu theatre in Toronto....

• Michel Arcand
  Michel Arcand
  Michel Arcand is a Canadian film editor.Born in Val-d'Or, Quebec, Arcand has won three Genie Awards for Best Achievement in Editing for the films The Rocket, Léolo and Un zoo la nuit and five nominations in the same category as well as other nominations for a Jutra Award and from the Directors...
  
  , The Rocket
• Jean-François Bergeron, Bon Cop, Bad Cop
  Bon Cop, Bad Cop
  Bon Cop, Bad Cop is a 2006 Canadian comedy-thriller buddy cop film about an Ontarian and a Québécois police officer who reluctantly join forces. The dialogue is a mixture of English and French...
  
  
• Michel Grou, Cheech
  Cheech (film)
  Cheech is a 2006 Canadian comedy-drama film based on a stage play. It is directed by Patrice Sauvé and written by François Létourneau with assistance from Linus Scheithauer- Plot :...
  
  
• Frédérique Broos, Congorama
  Congorama
  Congorama is a Canadian film directed by Philippe Falardeau, released in 2006.- Synopsis :Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the...
  
  
• Lesley Walker
  Lesley Walker
  Lesley Walker is a BAFTA Award-nominated film editor. She is a constant collaborator with directors Terry Gilliam and Richard Attenborough.-Selected filmography:Filmography based on the listing at the Internet Movie Database.*The Tempest...
  
  , Tideland
  Tideland (film)
  Tideland is a 2005 British-Canadian fantasy thriller film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam, an adaptation of Mitch Cullin's novel of the same name. The film was shot in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and surrounding area in the fall and winter of 2004...
  
  

28th Genie Awards

28th Genie Awards

The 28th Genie Awards were held on March 3, 2008 to honour films released in 2007. The ceremony was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...

• Ronald Sanders
  Ronald Sanders
  -Career:Ron won Genie Awards for his work on Eastern Promises , eXistenZ , Crash , and Dead Ringers . He has collaborated extensively with director David Cronenberg; since 1979, he has edited most of the Cronenberg's films....
  
  , Eastern Promises
• David Wharnsby
  David Wharnsby
  David Wharnsby is a Genie and Gemini award winning Canadian film editor who lives in Toronto.Some of Wharnsby's numerous credits include; the CBC's miniseries Northern Town, directed by Gary Burns; At The Hotel, directed by Ken Finkleman; TIFF top ten films, I, Claudia, by Chris Abraham; The...
  
  , Away From Her
  Away From Her
  Away from Her is a 2006 Canadian film which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival...
  
  
• Jean-François Bergeron, Les 3 p'tits cochons
  Les 3 p'tits cochons
  Les 3 p'tits cochons is a 2007 Quebec French-language comedy film. The directorial debut of comedian and actor Patrick Huard, the film won the Golden Reel Award at the 28th Genie Awards and the Billet d'or at the Jutra Awards as top-grossing film of 2007 in Quebec.-Plot summary:Two brothers ...
  
   (The 3 Li'l Pigs)
• Susan Maggi
  Susan Maggi
  Susan Maggi is a Canadian film editor. She is a four-time Genie Award nominee and has also been nominated for two Gemini Awards for "Best Picture Editing in a Dramatic Program or Series"...
  
  , Poor Boy's Game
  Poor Boy's Game
  Poor Boy's Game is a Canadian feature film directed by Clement Virgo. Co-written with Nova Scotian writer/director Chaz Thorne , it is the story of class struggle, racial tensions and boxing, set in the Canadian east coast port city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The film premiered on February 11, 2007,...
  
  
• Jeremiah Munce, Gareth C. Scales, The Tracey Fragments
  The Tracey Fragments (film)
  The Tracey Fragments is a 2007 drama film directed by Canadian Bruce McDonald and written by Maureen Medved, based on her novel of the same name. It stars Ellen Page in the title role, is produced by Sarah Timmins and executive produced by Paul Barkin....
  
  

29th Genie Awards

29th Genie Awards

The 29th Genie Awards were held on April 4, 2009 to honour films released in 2008. The ceremony was held at the Canadian Aviation Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, and was broadcast on Global...

• Richard Comeau, Ce qu'il faut pour vivre
• Frédérique Broos, C'est pas moi, je le jure!
  C'est pas moi, je le jure!
  C'est pas moi, je le jure! is a Quebec-French-language comedy movie released in Quebec on September 26, 2008. It is directed by Philippe Falardeau and is adapted from Bruno Hébert's novels C'est pas moi, je le jure! and Alice court avec René. The film's soundtrack contains original songs composed...
  
  
• Dominique Fortin, Maman est chez le coiffeur
  Maman est chez le coiffeur
  -Synopsis:It's summer 1966. Time to enjoy summer vacation, total freedom, running wild in the fields, and crazy giggles with friends. But as she becomes more aware of the dreams, sorrows and lies of the people closest to her, Élise sees her mother's sudden abandonment thoroughly disrupt her family...
  
  
• Dominique Fortin and Carina Baccanale, Le Banquet
• Yvann Thibaudeau, Borderline

30th Genie Awards

30th Genie Awards

The 30th Genie Awards were on April 12, 2010 to honour films released in 2009. Nominations were announced on March 1, 2010.-Controversy:Despite having won three awards at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and having been selected as Canada's submission for Best Foreign Language film at the 82nd Academy...

• Richard Comeau, Polytechnique
  Polytechnique (film)
  Polytechnique is a 2009 Canadian film from Quebec written by Jacques Davidts and Denis Villeneuve and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Set in Montreal, Quebec and based on the École Polytechnique massacre , the film documents the events of December 6, 1989 through the eyes of two students who witness...
  
  
• Alain Baril, 5150 Elm's Way
  5150 Elm's Way
  5150 Elm's Way is a Canadian psychological-drama thriller film directed byÉric Tessier and starring René-Daniel Dubois and Marc-André Grondin. It based on a novel with the same name, written by author Patrick Senécal.-Plot:...
  
  
• Michel Grou, Grande ourse: La clé des possibles
• Jim Munro, Fifty Dead Men Walking
  Fifty Dead Men Walking
  Fifty Dead Men Walking is a 2008 English-language crime thriller film written and directed by Kari Skogland. It is a loose adaptation of Martin McGartland's 1997 autobiography of the same name...
  
  
• François Normandin and Jim Donovan, 3 saisons
  3 saisons
  3 saisons is a Canadian drama film directed by Jim Donovan.- Plot :The film tells three stories. The first two are about two couples whose lives are extreme opposites but they share one thing in common: an unexpected pregnancy...
  
  

31st Genie Awards

31st Genie Awards

The 31st Genie Awards ceremony was held on March 10, 2011 to honour films released in 2010. Nominations were announced on February 2, 2011.William Shatner was announced as the ceremony's host on February 16.-Motion Picture:*Incendies*10½...

• Monique Dartonne, Incendies
  Incendies
  Incendies is a 2010 Quebec film written and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play, Scorched, Incendies follows the journey of twin brother and sister as they attempt to unravel the mystery of their mother's life. The film premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals...
  
  
• Michele Conroy, Splice
  Splice (film)
  Splice is a 2009 Canadian/French science fiction horror film directed by Vincenzo Natali and starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley. The story concerns experiments in genetic engineering being done by a young scientist couple who attempt to introduce human DNA into their work of splicing animal...
  
  
• Matthew Hannam, Trigger
  Trigger (film)
  Trigger is a Canadian comedy-drama film, released in 2010. Directed by Bruce McDonald, the film stars Molly Parker and Tracy Wright as Kat and Vic, former rock stars reuniting their band Trigger for the first time since their retirement....
  
  
• Valérie Héroux, 10½
• Yvann Thibaudeau, Piché: entre ciel et terre