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• Janis Allen, Dan Goldberg, Len Blum
  Len Blum
  Leonard Solomon “Len” Blum, is an award winning Canadian screenwriter, film producer and film composer. He graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1975 and wrote many films including Meatballs, Stripes, Heavy Metal, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Meatballs...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Mireille Dansereau, Heartbreak
• Anne Claire Poirier
  Anne Claire Poirier
  Anne Claire Poirier is a Canadian film producer, director and screenwriter. She is one of the most important female filmmakers in Canadian history; her documentary film De mère en fille is the first feature film ever directed by a French-Canadian woman...
  
  , Marthe Blackburn, A Scream from Silence
  A Scream from Silence
  A Scream from Silence is a 1979 Canadian drama film directed by Anne Claire Poirier. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Julie Vincent - Suzanne* Germain Houde - Le violeur* Paul Savoie - Philippe...
  
  
• Allan Moyle
  Allan Moyle
  Allan Moyle is a Canadian film director. He is best known for directing the films Pump Up the Volume and New Waterford Girl .-Biography:His first major film was Times Square...
  
  , John Laing, Stephen Lack
  Stephen Lack
  Stephen Lack is a Canadian painter and a film actor best known for his role as the lead character, Cameron Vale, in David Cronenberg's film Scanners.-Life:...
  
  , Rubber Gun
• Steven Hilliard Stern
  Steven Hilliard Stern
  Steven Hilliard Stern is a Canadian television and documentary director, producer and writer....
  
  , Running
  Running (film)
  Running is a 1979 drama/sports film directed by Steven Hilliard Stern. It is about the fictional American marathon runner and Olympics hopeful Michael Andropolis and his struggle to compete in the Olympic Games. It stars Michael Douglas and Susan Anspach....
  
  
• Jim Osborne, Summer's Children

• Diana Maddox and William Gray, The Changeling
  The Changeling (film)
  The Changeling is a 1980 horror film directed by Peter Medak and starring George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere . The story is based upon events that writer Russell Hunter said he experienced while he was living in the Henry Treat Rogers Mansion of Denver, Colorado.-Plot:Scott stars as Dr...
  
  
• Ted Allan
  Ted Allan
  Ted Allan was a Jewish Canadian writer, several of whose books were made into motion pictures.Ted Allan was born in Montreal as Alan Herman. In the 1930s he fought against fascism in Spanish Civil War, along with another Canadian, Norman Bethune...
  
  , It Rained All Night the Day I Left
• 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...
  
   and Marcel Sabourin, Cordelia
• R. J. Dryer and Martin Lager, Jack London's Klondike Fever
  Klondike Fever
  Klondike Fever is a 1980 Canadian adventure film, based on the writings of Jack London.- Plot :* Jack London's journey from San Francisco to the Canadian Klondike gold fields in 1898.- Awards :...
  
  
• Jean-Claude Lord
  Jean-Claude Lord
  Jean-Claude Lord is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He was one of the most commercial of the Quebecois directors in the 1970s and aimed his feature films at a mass audience and dealt with political themes in a mainstream, Hollywood style.-Biography:Jean-Claude Lord began his career as...
  
   and Jean Salvy, Éclair au chocolat

• Réjean Ducharme
  Réjean Ducharme
  Réjean Ducharme is a Quebec novelist and playwright who currently resides in Montreal. He is extremely reclusive and has not appeared at any public functions since his first successful book was published in 1966...
  
  , Les Bons Débarras
• Marc Rosen
  Marc Rosen
  Marc Rosen is an American film and television producer, best known for working on the Harry Potter film franchise and the television show Threshold...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Jean-Claude Labrecque
  Jean-Claude Labrecque
  Jean-Claude Labrecque, is a director and cinematographer who learned the basics of filmmaking at the Quebec Film Office and the National Film Board of Canada.-Career:...
  
  , Jacques Benoit, L'Affaire Coffin
• Micheline Lanctôt
  Micheline Lanctôt
  Micheline Lanctôt is an actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.-Biography:Lanctôt's post-secondary education was in music, fine arts and theatre at Collège Jésus-Marie in Outremont, and in art history before switching to film animation, which she...
  
  , L'Homme à tout faire
  L'Homme à tout faire
  L'Homme à tout faire is a 1980 Canadian drama/romance film.- Plot :The Handyman is about the titular character, a shy, self-conscious man , who works for a married woman who turns out to be as shy and self-conscious as him.- Reception :* The film earned 6 Genie Award nominations in 1981 in the...
  
  
• Ken Mitchell
  Ken Mitchell
  Ken Mitchell is a Canadian poet, novelist and playwright. Mitchell was raised on a rural farm outside the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Mitchell began his post-secondary education as a journalism student at Ryerson University, Toronto. He later attended the University of Saskatchewan, where he...
  
  , 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:...
  
  

• Max Fischer, The Lucky Star
  The Lucky Star (film)
  - Plot :A young Jewish boy who escapes from the traumas of war-torn Holland by living in a fantasy world of American westerns - where good triumphs over evil and the outcast becomes a hero.- Recognition :* 1981...
  
  
• Bernard Slade
  Bernard Slade
  Bernard Slade is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter.Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Slade began his career as an actor with the Garden Center Theatre in Vineland, Ontario. In the mid-1960s, he relocated to Hollywood and began to work as a writer for television sitcoms, including Bewitched...
  
  , Tribute
• Ronald Sutherland and Robin Spry
  Robin Spry
  Robin Spry was a Canadian filmmaker and television producer best known for his documentary film Action: The October Crisis of 1970 about Quebec's October Crisis.-Profile:...
  
  , Suzanne

• Terry Heffernan, Heartaches
• Clay Borris, Alligator Shoes
• Paul Illidge, James Sanderson, 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...
  
  
• Adam Arkin
  Adam Arkin
  Adam Arkin is an American television, film and stage actor and director. He played the role of Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope. He has been nominated for numerous awards, including a Tony as well as 3 primetime Emmys, 4 SAG Awards , and a DGA Award...
  
  , Ian Sutherland, Morrie Ruvinsky, Improper Channels
  Improper Channels
  Improper Channels is a 1981 comedy-drama film starring Alan Arkin and Mariette Hartley, both of whom were nominated for Genie Awards for their performances. Arkin plays an architect named Jeff Martley who is erroneously accused of child abuse by an overzealous social worker . Hartley plays...
  
  
• Réjean Ducharme
  Réjean Ducharme
  Réjean Ducharme is a Quebec novelist and playwright who currently resides in Montreal. He is extremely reclusive and has not appeared at any public functions since his first successful book was published in 1966...
  
  , Les Beaux Souvenirs
• David Cronenberg
  David Cronenberg
  David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...
  
  , 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...
  
  

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• Roger Lemelin
  Roger Lemelin
  Roger Lemelin, was a Quebec novelist, television writer and essayist.-Biography:Lemelin was born in Quebec City. From 1944 to 1952, he was a Canadian correspondent for the American magazines Time and Life and, from 1972 to 1981, chief executive officer and editor of La Presse.In 1980 he was made...
  
   and Gilles Carle, Les Plouffe
  Les Plouffe
  Les Plouffe is a Canadian drama film, based on a novel, about the titular Plouffe family, set during World War II.-Awards:...
  
  
• Anne Cameron
  Anne Cameron
  Anne Cameron , August 20, 1938 in Nanaimo, British Columbia) is a Canadian novelist, poet, screenwriter and short story writer. Much of her work is inspired by Northwest Coast First Nations mythology and culture....
  
   and Ralph L. Thomas
  Ralph L. Thomas
  Ralph L. Thomas is a Brazilian born Canadian film director and screenwriter. He was born to Canadian Baptist missionary parents and grew up in Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1961 and began to write for the entertainment pages of the Toronto Star a year later...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Diana Maddox, The Amateur

• Richard Paluck and Robert Guza, Jr.
  Robert Guza, Jr.
  Robert Guza Jr. is an American television writer and producer, and formally held the position as Head Writer on the long running ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. He was fired by Brian Frons.-Personal life:...
  
  , Melanie
• Peter Dion, Hot Touch

• Bob Clark
  Bob Clark
  Benjamin "Bob" Clark was an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing and writing the script with Jean Shepherd to the 1983 Christmas film A Christmas Story...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• David Cronenberg
  David Cronenberg
  David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , Deserters
• Timothy Findley
  Timothy Findley
  Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC, O.Ont was a Canadian novelist and playwright. He was also informally known by the nickname Tiff or Tiffy, an acronym of his initials.-Biography:...
  
  , 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:...
  
  

• Daniel Petrie
  Daniel Petrie
  Daniel Mannix Petrie was a Canadian television and movie director.Petrie was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Mary Anne and William Mark Petrie, a soft-drink manufacturer. He moved to the United States in 1945...
  
  , The Bay Boy
  The Bay Boy
  The Bay Boy is a 1984 Canadian film. It is a semi-autobiographical film based on director Daniel Petrie's experiences of growing up in Glace Bay, a mining town on Cape Breton Island, during the Great Depression...
  
  
• Micheline Lanctôt
  Micheline Lanctôt
  Micheline Lanctôt is an actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.-Biography:Lanctôt's post-secondary education was in music, fine arts and theatre at Collège Jésus-Marie in Outremont, and in art history before switching to film animation, which she...
  
  , Sonatine
• Michel Langlois and Léa Pool
  Léa Pool
  Léa Pool is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who has also taught film at UQAM. She is openly lesbian. Her 1986 film Anne Trister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1999 film Emporte-moi was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Special...
  
  , La Femme de l'hôtel
  La Femme de l'hôtel
  La Femme de l'hôtel is a 1984 Canadian French-language drama film directed by Léa Pool.-Plot:* Andrea Richler is a well-known director who returns to her home town of Montreal to film a high-budget musical drama. At her hotel, she has a brief but unsettling encounter with a suicidal elderly woman...
  
  
• Don Owen, Unfinished Business

• Sandy Wilson
  Sandy Wilson (director)
  Sandra "Sandy" Wilson is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her films My American Cousin and Harmony Cats. Harmony Cats was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction and the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Lise Lemay-Rousseau, Le Matou
  Le Matou
  Le Matou is a 1985 Canadian/French French-language drama film based on the homonymous novel of Yves Beauchemin.- Plot :Florent and his wife Elise always had one dream: to own a restaurant...
  
  
• Mordecai Richler
  Mordecai Richler
  Mordecai Richler, CC was a Canadian Jewish author, screenwriter and essayist. A leading critic called him "the great shining star of his Canadian literary generation" and a pivotal figure in the country's history. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney's Version,...
  
  , Joshua Then and Now
  Joshua Then and Now (film)
  Joshua Then and Now is a 1985 film and a TV mini-series, adapted by Mordecai Richler from his semi-autobiographical novel Joshua Then and Now. James Woods starred as the adult Joshua, Gabrielle Lazure as his wife, and Alan Arkin as Joshua's father...
  
  
• Louise Rinfret and Claude Jutra
  Claude Jutra
  Claude Jutra was a Canadian actor, film director and writer. The Prix Jutra are named in his honor because of his importance in Quebec cinema history. He was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec....
  
  , La Dame en couleurs

• Denys Arcand
  Denys Arcand
  Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions...
  
  , 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:...
  
  
• Sharon Riis, Loyalties
• Yves Simoneau
  Yves Simoneau
  Yves Simoneau is a Canadian film and television director.-Recognition:His acclaimed 1987 crime drama Pouvoir intime garnered multiple Genie Awards nominations including best direction at the 8th Genie Awards...
  
  , Pierre Curzi
  Pierre Curzi
  Pierre Curzi is an actor, screenwriter and politician in Quebec, Canada. He is the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Borduas in the Montérégie region south of Montreal...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Richard Nochol, Sitting in Limbo
  Sitting in Limbo
  Sitting In Limbo is the 2007 album by torch song singer Jessica Molaskey, featuring herself and her husband John Pizzarelli. Also on the album is John's younger brother Martin Pizzarelli, interspered with guest appearances by tenor saxophonist Harry Allen....
  
  
• Michael Jones
  Mike Jones (writer)
  Mike Jones is a Canadian screenwriter, whose credits include the films The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood and Secret Nation.He is the brother of comedic actors Andy Jones and Cathy Jones.-References:...
  
   and Andy Jones
  Andy Jones (comedian)
  Andrew Jordan Jones is a Canadian comedian, and a former member of CODCO.Andy Jones was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador...
  
  , 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...
  
  

• Jean-Claude Lauzon
  Jean-Claude Lauzon
  Jean-Claude Lauzon was a Canadian filmmaker. Born to a humble family in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Lauzon worked a variety of odd jobs after dropping out of high school. He went on to study film at the Université du Québec à Montréal at the behest of Andre Petrowski, a member of the National Film...
  
  , Un Zoo la nuit
• Sally Bochner, John N. Smith
  John N. Smith
  John N. Smith is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He began his career making documentary and short films before moving on to feature films and then finally working primarily in television. His work has been nominated in the Academy Awards, Genie Awards, and Gemini Awards, but has only...
  
   and Sam Grana, Train of Dreams
  Train of Dreams
  Train of Dreams is a 1987 Canadian film starring Jason St. Armour, Christopher Neil and Fred Ward as a popular teacher. It was directed by nominee John N...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• William D. MacGillivray
  William D. MacGillivray
  William D. MacGillivray is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. MacGillivray studied art and design at NSCAD University and at Concordia University. He then studied filmmaking at the London Film School in England in 1972...
  
  , Life Classes
  Life Classes
  Life Classes is a 1987 Canadian drama film directed by William D. MacGillivray.- Plot :Mary Cameron lives on the Canadian island of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. There, she enjoys a warm relationship with an old woman she calls Nanny , who regales her with stories of the Gaelic past...
  
  
• Patricia Rozema
  Patricia Rozema
  Patricia Rozema is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.-Life and career:Rozema was born in Kingston, Ontario and raised in Sarnia, Ontario. Her parents, Jacoba Berandina and Jan Rozema, were Dutch Calvinists. Television was severely restricted and she didn’t go to a movie theatre until she...
  
  , I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
  I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
  I've Heard the Mermaids Singing is a 1987 theatrical-release feature film, directed by Patricia Rozema. The title is taken from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot.-Plot:...
  
  

• Trevor Rhone, Glen Salzman, Milk and Honey
• André Melançon, Jacques Bobet, La Grenouille et La Baleine
• Marie-Jose Raymond, Claude Fournier, Michel Cournot
  Michel Cournot
  Michel Cournot was a French journalist, screenwriter and film director. His only film as a director, Les Gauloises bleues, was due to be entered at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled because to the events of May 1968 in France.-External links:...
  
  , Les Tisserands du Pouvoir
• Guy Maddin
  Guy Maddin
  Guy Maddin, OM is a Canadian screenwriter, director, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films from Winnipeg, Manitoba...
  
  , Tales from the Gimli Hospital
  Tales from the Gimli Hospital
  Tales from the Gimli Hospital, directed by Guy Maddin, is a black-and-white 1988 psychodrama which incorporates elements of surrealism, black comedy, and expressionism.-Plot synopsis:...
  
  
• Michael Rubbo
  Michael Rubbo
  Michael Dattilo Rubbo is an Australian filmmaker who has written and directed over 50 films in documentary and fiction....
  
  , Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
  Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
  Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller is the name of a 1988 Canadian film, which was written and directed by Michael Rubbo. It is the seventh in the Tales for All series of children's movies created by Les Productions la Fête.-Premise:...
  
  

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• Norman Snider, David Cronenberg
  David Cronenberg
  David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...
  
  , Dead Ringers
• Jackie Burroughs
  Jackie Burroughs
  Jacqueline "Jackie" Burroughs was an English-born Canadian actress.-Life and career:Born in Lancashire, England, Burroughs acted in live theatre at Ontario's Stratford Festival...
  
  , 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....
  
  
• Francis Mankiewicz
  Francis Mankiewicz
  Francis Mankiewicz was a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. In 1945, his family moved to Montreal, where Francis would spend all his childhood. He was a relative of Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Herman J...
  
  , Jacques Savoie, Les Portes Tournantes
  Les Portes tournantes
  Les Portes tournantes is a Canadian-French French-language drama film.-Cast:* Monique Spaziani - Céleste* Gabriel Arcand - Madrigal Blaudelle* Miou-Miou - Lauda* François Méthé - Antoine...
  
  
• Robin Spry
  Robin Spry
  Robin Spry was a Canadian filmmaker and television producer best known for his documentary film Action: The October Crisis of 1970 about Quebec's October Crisis.-Profile:...
  
  , Douglas Bowie, Obsessed
  Obsessed (1987 film)
  Hitting Home is a 1987 Canadian drama film. The story is based on a book by Tom Alderman.- Plot :A Canadian mother and businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex , is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private...
  
  
• Phil Savath, The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
  The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
  The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick is a 1990 Canadian film based on the novel by Morley Torgov.-Plot:The story is about a young Jewish boy from a small Manitoba community who has an overbearing family. To make matters more difficult, he likes a Christian girl, whom he later competes with in a...
  
  

• Richard Beattie, L. Elliot Simms, Cold Comfort
• Dany Laferrière
  Dany Laferrière
  Dany Laferrière is a francophone Haitian and Canadian novelist and journalist.Born in Port-au-Prince, Haïti, and raised in Petit Goâve, Laferrière worked as a journalist in Haïti before moving to Canada in 1976...
  
  , Richard Sadler
  Richard Sadler
  Richard Sadler is a producer, scenarist and Director .- As a producer :* 1984 : The Gunrunner directed by Nardo Castillo...
  
  , Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer
• John Varley
  John Varley (author)
  John Herbert Varley is an American science fiction author.-Biography:Varley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, and graduated from Nederland High School. He went to Michigan State University on a National Merit Scholarship because, of the schools that he could afford, it...
  
  , Millennium
  Millennium (film)
  Millennium is a 1989 film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Robert Joy, Brent Carver, Al Waxman and Daniel J. Travanti. The original music score was composed by Eric N. Robertson...
  
  

• Brian Moore
  Brian Moore (novelist)
  Brian Moore was a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The...
  
  , Black Robe
  Black Robe (film)
  Black Robe is a 1991 film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay was written by Northern Irish-Canadian author Brian Moore, who adapted it from his novel of the same name....
  
  
• James DeFelice, Anne Wheeler
  Anne Wheeler
  Anne Wheeler, OC is a Canadian film and television writer, producer and director. Graduating in Mathematics from the University of Alberta she was a computer programmer before traveling abroad. Her years of travels inspired her to become a storyteller and when she returned she joined a group of...
  
  , Angel Square
  Angel Square
  Angel Square is a 1990 Canadian film set in 1945 and based on the novel of the same title by Brian Doyle. Many of his books are set in Ottawa, Canada.-Summary:...
  
  
• Léa Pool
  Léa Pool
  Léa Pool is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who has also taught film at UQAM. She is openly lesbian. Her 1986 film Anne Trister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1999 film Emporte-moi was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Special...
  
  , Laurent Gagliardi, Michel Langlois, La Demoiselle sauvage

• David Cronenberg
  David Cronenberg
  David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...
  
  , Naked Lunch
  Naked Lunch (film)
  Naked Lunch is the 1991 Canadian/British/Japanese film adaptation, directed by David Cronenberg, of William S. Burroughs' novel of the same name...
  
  
• Kelly Rebar, 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...
  
  
• Yvon Rivard, Jacques Leduc, La Vie Fantôme
• David Brandes, The Quarrel
  The Quarrel
  The Quarrel is a 1991 Canadian film directed by Eli Cohen and starring Saul Rubinek and R. H. Thomson. The film was written by David Brandes and Joseph Telushkin.- Summary :...
  
  
• Gail Singer, True Confections

• 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...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Mina Shum
  Mina Shum
  Mina Shum is an independent Canadian filmmaker. She is director resident at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto...
  
  , 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....
  
  
• Gilles Desjardins, Les Pots Casses
• Roger Cantin, Matusalem
• Léa Pool
  Léa Pool
  Léa Pool is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who has also taught film at UQAM. She is openly lesbian. Her 1986 film Anne Trister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1999 film Emporte-moi was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Special...
  
  , Mouvements du Desir

• Gerald Wexler and Mort Ransen, Margaret's Museum
  Margaret's Museum
  Margaret's Museum is a critically acclaimed 1995 British-Canadian dark film drama, directed by Mort Ransen and based on Sheldon Currie's novel The Glace Bay Miners' Museum....
  
  
• Sylvain Guy, Liste noire
• Clément Virgo
  Clement Virgo
  Clément Virgo is a Canadian filmmaker of international acclaim. His latest feature, the boxing drama Poor Boy's Game, stars Danny Glover and Rossif Sutherland...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Stephen Williams
  Stephen Williams (director)
  Stephen Williams is a Canadian film and television director. Williams has directed several modern day television programs including work as a regular director on the ABC drama series Lost, where he was also a co-executive producer...
  
  , Soul Survivor

• David Cronenberg
  David Cronenberg
  David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Noel Baker, 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...
  
  
• Michel Marc Bouchard
  Michel Marc Bouchard
  Michel Marc Bouchard is a gay Canadian playwright.Born in Saint-Cœur-de-Marie, Quebec, he studied theatre at the University of Ottawa. Bouchard made his professional playwriting debut in 1983 and since then has written some 25 plays...
  
   and Linda Gaboriau
  Linda Gaboriau
  Linda Gaboriau is a Canadian dramaturg and literary translator who has translated some 100 plays and novels by Quebec writers, including many of the Quebec plays best known to English-speaking Canadian audiences....
  
  , Lilies
  Lilies (film)
  Lilies is a 1996 Canadian film directed by John Greyson. It is an adaptation by Michel Marc Bouchard and Linda Gaboriau of Bouchard's own play Les feluettes. It depicts a play being performed in a prison by the inmates.-Expository narration:...
  
  
• John L'Ecuyer
  John L'Ecuyer
  John L'Ecuyer is a Canadian film and television director. He is the younger brother of Gerald L'Ecuyer, a noted Canadian film and television director. L'Ecuyer studied at Ryerson University in Toronto, where his classmates included screenwriter Brad Abraham.His first feature, Curtis's Charm , was...
  
  , Curtis's Charm
• Robert Lepage
  Robert Lepage
  Robert Lepage, is a playwright, actor, film director, and stage director from Québec City, Québec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.- Life and work :...
  
   and Marie Brassard
  Marie Brassard
  Marie Brassard is a Quebec actress, author and theatre director living in Montreal. For many years her professional endeavors were closely linked with Robert Lepage...
  
  , Le Polygraphe

• Thom Fitzgerald
  Thom Fitzgerald
  Thomas "Thom" Fitzgerald is an award winning American-Canadian film director as well live theater director.-Life:Fitzgerald was born and raised in New Rochelle, New York. His parents divorced when he was five years old. He moved with his mother and brother, Timothy Jr., to Bergenfield, New Jersey,...
  
  , 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  , The Sweet Hereafter
  The Sweet Hereafter (film)
  The Sweet Hereafter is a 1997 Canadian film written and directed by Atom Egoyan. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russell Banks.-Plot:...
  
  
• André Forcier
  André Forcier
  André Forcier is a Quebec film director and screenwriter. His work has been linked to Latin American magic realism by its use of fantasy but is firmly rooted in Quebec's reality....
  
  , La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge
• Gabriel Pelletier, Yves Pelletier, Andrée Pelletier and Ann Burke, Karmina
• Lynne Stopkewich
  Lynne Stopkewich
  Lynne Stopkewich is a Canadian film director, particularly notable as the director of the film Kissed .-History:In 1987, Stopkewich obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in film studies from Concordia University, followed in 1996 by a Master of Fine Arts Degree in film studies from the...
  
   and Angus Fraser, Kissed
  Kissed
  Kissed is a 1996 Canadian film, directed and co-written by Lynne Stopkewich, based on Barbara Gowdy's short story "We So Seldom Look On Love"...
  
  

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...

• François Girard
  François Girard
  François Girard is a French-Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Born in Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit...
  
   and Don McKellar
  Don McKellar
  -Personal life:McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Don McKellar
  Don McKellar
  -Personal life:McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College...
  
  , Last Night
• André Morency and Robert Lepage
  Robert Lepage
  Robert Lepage, is a playwright, actor, film director, and stage director from Québec City, Québec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.- Life and work :...
  
  , Nô
  Nô (film)
  Nô is a 1998 film by director Robert Lepage. It was based on one segment in Lepage's play Seven Streams of the River Ota.The title is a pun which reflects the film's dramatic structure, linking the 1980 Quebec referendum to Japanese Nō theatre.-Plot:The film is set in 1970 at the height of the FLQ...
  
  
• Allan Scott
  Allan Scott (Scottish screenwriter)
  Allan Scott, the alias of Allan Shiach, is a Scottish screenwriter and producer, nominated for BAFTA's Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film and a Genie Award for his 1997 film Regeneration...
  
  , 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:...
  
  
• Sooni Taraporevala
  Sooni Taraporevala
  Sooni Taraporevala is an internationally acclaimed screenwriter and photographer, currently based in India. She is best known as the screenwriter of Mississippi Masala, The Namesake and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay , all directed by Mira Nair.She directed her first feature film, based on a...
  
  , Such a Long Journey

• Louis Bélanger
  Louis Bélanger
  Louis Bélanger is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has a degree in Communications from UQAM. He is a close friend and collaborator of filmmaker Denis Chouinard; both men created several short films together before branching off into their own careers with feature films...
  
  , Post Mortem
• Bruce McCulloch
  Bruce McCulloch
  Bruce Ian McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, comedian, and film director. McCulloch is best known for his work as a member of The Kids in the Hall, a popular Canadian comedy troupe, and as a writer for Saturday Night Live. McCulloch has also appeared on series such as Twitch City and Gilmore...
  
  , Dog Park
  Dog Park (film)
  Dog Park is a 1998 American/Canadian romantic comedy film written and directed by Bruce McCulloch.-Plot:Andy, is a writer for newspaper classifieds who has been bouncing from relationship to relationship since eighth grade. Throughout the film, he loses custody of his dog when his girlfriend,...
  
  
• Jeremy Podeswa
  Jeremy Podeswa
  Jeremy Podeswa is a Canadian/American film and television director. He is best known for directing the films The Five Senses and Fugitive Pieces . He has also worked as Director on the television shows Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, The Tudors, Queer as Folk, and the HBO World War II miniseries The...
  
  , The Five Senses
• Léa Pool
  Léa Pool
  Léa Pool is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who has also taught film at UQAM. She is openly lesbian. Her 1986 film Anne Trister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1999 film Emporte-moi was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Special...
  
  , Emporte-moi
  Emporte-moi
  Emporte-Moi is a 1999 French-Canadian film by director Léa Pool and starring Karine Vanasse. It tells the story of Hanna, a girl struggling with her sexuality and the depression of both her parents as she goes through puberty in Quebec in 1963...
  
  
• Monique Proulx
  Monique Proulx
  Monique Proulx is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.-Works:*Sans cœur et sans reproche, *Le sexe des étoiles **The Sex of the Stars...
  
  , Le Grand serpent du monde

• 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...
  
  , Felicia's Journey
  Felicia's Journey
  Felicia's Journey is a 1999 film starring Elaine Cassidy and Bob Hoskins, based on a prize winning 1994 novel by William Trevor. It was directed by Atom Egoyan...
  
  
• François Bouvier and Marc Robitaille, Histoires d'hiver
• Jean-Philippe Duval and Alexis Martin, Matroni et moi
• Kim Hogan, Heart of the Sun
• Wayne Johnston, The Divine Ryans
  The Divine Ryans
  The Divine Ryans is a 1999 film directed by Stephen Reynolds, written by Wayne Johnston, starring Robert Joy and Pete Postlethwaite. The film is based around the Ryan family who run a funeral parlour in St John's, Newfoundland. The movie was filmed in St...
  
  
• Monique Proulx
  Monique Proulx
  Monique Proulx is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.-Works:*Sans cœur et sans reproche, *Le sexe des étoiles **The Sex of the Stars...
  
   and 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...
  
  , Souvenirs intimes

• Denis Villeneuve
  Denis Villeneuve
  Denis Villeneuve is a Canadian film director and writer. In his early career he won Radio-Canada's youth film competition "La Course Europe-Asie" in 1990-91. He is a three-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Director, for Maelström in 2001, Polytechnique in 2010 and Incendies in 2011...
  
  , 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....
  
  
• Denys Arcand
  Denys Arcand
  Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions...
  
   and J. Jacob Potashnik, Stardom
  Stardom
  Stardom is a 2000 Canadian film written by J.Jacob Potashnik & Denys Arcand and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Jessica Paré and Dan Aykroyd. It tells the story of a young girl who tries to cope with her rise to stardom after being discovered by a fashion agency...
  
  
• Frank Borg, My Father's Angel
• Michel Marc Bouchard
  Michel Marc Bouchard
  Michel Marc Bouchard is a gay Canadian playwright.Born in Saint-Cœur-de-Marie, Quebec, he studied theatre at the University of Ottawa. Bouchard made his professional playwriting debut in 1983 and since then has written some 25 plays...
  
   and Gilles Desjardins, Les Muses orphelines
• Clément Virgo
  Clement Virgo
  Clément Virgo is a Canadian filmmaker of international acclaim. His latest feature, the boxing drama Poor Boy's Game, stars Danny Glover and Rossif Sutherland...
  
  , Love Come Down

• Paul Apak Angilirq, Atanarjuat
  Atanarjuat
  Atanarjuat is a 2001 Canadian film directed by Zacharias Kunuk. It was the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in Inuktitut...
  
  
• Renny Bartlett, Eisenstein
  Eisenstein (film)
  Eisenstein is a 2000 film about Sergei Eisenstein, starring Simon McBurney, Raymond Coulthard and Jacqueline McKenzie....
  
  
• Catherine Martin, Mariages
• Judith Thompson
  Judith Thompson
  Judith Clare Thompson, OC is a Canadian playwright who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail once declared that "...in this country, a playwright as good as Judith Thompson is a miracle." She has twice been awarded the Governor General's Award for drama, and is the...
  
  , Lost and Delirious
  Lost and Delirious
  Lost and Delirious is a 2001 Canadian drama film directed by Léa Pool and loosely based on the novel The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan. Lost and Delirious is filmed from the perspective of Mary , who observes the changing love between her two teenage friends, Pauline and Victoria...
  
  
• André Turpin, Un crabe dans la tête

• Sharon Riis, Savage Messiah
• Dominique Demers, La Mystérieuse mademoiselle C.
• Patrick McGrath, Spider
  Spider (film)
  Spider is a 2002 Canadian/British drama film produced and directed by David Cronenberg and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McGrath, who also wrote the screenplay....
  
  
• Edward Riche
  Edward Riche
  Edward Riche is a Canadian writer. He currently lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.-Background:Riche was born on October 24, 1961 in Botwood, Newfoundland, Canada. For three years he attended Memorial University, and then transferred to Concordia University in Montreal to study film. He...
  
  , Rare Birds
  Rare Birds
  Rare Birds is a 2001 Canadian comedy/drama film. It was directed by Sturla Gunnarsson and written by Edward Riche based on his novel. This movie features spectacular scenery from Cape Spear, Newfoundland, Canada. It also features music by the The Pogues and characteristic Canadian Maritime...
  
  
• Judith Thompson
  Judith Thompson
  Judith Clare Thompson, OC is a Canadian playwright who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail once declared that "...in this country, a playwright as good as Judith Thompson is a miracle." She has twice been awarded the Governor General's Award for drama, and is the...
  
  , Perfect Pie
  Perfect Pie
  Perfect Pie is a play written by Judith Thompson, and first staged at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre in 2000, with Judith Thompson also directing....
  
  

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• Denys Arcand
  Denys Arcand
  Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions...
  
  , Les Invasions barbares
  Les Invasions barbares
  The Barbarian Invasions is a 2003 French Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Denys Arcand. It is the sequel to Arcand's earlier film The Decline of the American Empire and is followed by Days of Darkness. The film was produced by companies from both Canada and France, including Telefilm Canada,...
  
  
• Louis Bélanger
  Louis Bélanger
  Louis Bélanger is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has a degree in Communications from UQAM. He is a close friend and collaborator of filmmaker Denis Chouinard; both men created several short films together before branching off into their own careers with feature films...
  
  , Gaz Bar Blues
• Sébastien Rose, Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause
• Ken Scott, 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...
  
  
• Peter Wellington
  Peter Wellington (director)
  Peter Wellington is a Canadian film and television director, best known for the films Joe's So Mean to Josephine, for which he won the Claude Jutra Award in 1996, and Luck....
  
  , Luck

• Robert Lepage
  Robert Lepage
  Robert Lepage, is a playwright, actor, film director, and stage director from Québec City, Québec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.- Life and work :...
  
  , La Face cachée de la lune
• Maurice Chauvet, Owning Mahowny
  Owning Mahowny
  Owning Mahowny is a 2003 movie about gambling addiction with a cast that includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin and John Hurt.-Plot:...
  
  
• Daniel MacIvor
  Daniel MacIvor
  Daniel MacIvor is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director and film director. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and then at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario....
  
  , Marion Bridge
• Charles Martin Smith
  Charles Martin Smith
  Charles Martin Smith is an American film actor, writer, and director.-Early life:Smith was born in Van Nuys, California. His father, Frank Smith, was a film cartoonist and animator, while his uncle Paul J. Smith was an animator as well as a director for the Walter Lantz Studios...
  
  , 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....
  
  
• Esta Spalding
  Esta Spalding
  Esta Alice Spalding is a Canadian author, screenwriter and poet who won the Pat Lowther Award in 2000 for Lost August. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Phillip Spalding and Linda Spalding, she grew up in Hawaii and currently resides in Guelph, Ontario....
  
  , Falling Angels

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• Francis Leclerc
  Francis Leclerc
  Francis Leclerc is a Canadian film and television director, screenwriter and film editor.- Recognition :* 2005 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction - Looking for Alexander - Won...
  
   and Marcel Beaulieu, Mémoires affectives
  Mémoires affectives
  Mémoires affectives is a French language Canadian drama film. It was directed and written by Francis Leclerc. Marcel Beaulieu also wrote the script...
  
  
• Denise Filiatrault
  Denise Filiatrault
  Denise Filiatrault, OC, OQ is a Canadian actress and director.In 1982, she won a "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role" Genie Award for her performance in Les Plouffe...
  
  , Ma vie en cinémascope
  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...
  
  
• Federico Hidalgo
  Federico Hidalgo
  Federico Hidalgo is a filmmaker and film professor in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has made two feature films to date A Silent Love , and Imitation , both released by Atopia....
  
   and Paulina Robles, A Silent Love
  A Silent Love
  A Silent Love is a 2004 film written and directed by Federico Hidalgo and produced by Atopia.Through an Internet service, a Montreal professor arranges for himself a Mexican bride. But both husband and wife, even with their good intentions, are in for a bumpy ride toward marital...
  
  
• Don McKellar
  Don McKellar
  -Personal life:McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College...
  
   and Michael Goldbach, 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:...
  
  
• David "Sudz" Sutherland
  Sudz Sutherland
  David "Sudz" Sutherland is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His credits include the films Doomstown, Love, Sex and Eating the Bones and Guns, as well as episodes of Da Kink in My Hair, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Wild Roses and Jozi-H...
  
  , Love, Sex and Eating the Bones
  Love, Sex and Eating the Bones
  Love, Sex and Eating the Bones is a 2003 Canadian romantic comedy film directed and written by Sudz Sutherland featuring a mostly African American leading cast...
  
  

• Luc Dionne
  Luc Dionne
  Luc Dionne is an award winning screenwriter and director born in Quebec in 1960. Luc's work is largely directed towards the French speaking market. However, many within the industry accredit Dionne's successful Omerta series as being an inspiration for David Chase's hit series The...
  
   and Sylvain Guy, Monica la mitraille
• Jerry Ciccoritti
  Jerry Ciccoritti
  Jerry Ciccoritti is a Canadian film, television and theatre director. His ability to work in a number of genres and for many mediums has made him one of the most successful directors in the country.- Biography :...
  
  , Blood
• Joël Champetier
  Joël Champetier
  Joël Champetier is a French-Canadian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:...
  
   and Daniel Roby
  Daniel Roby
  Daniel Roby is a Canadian film director and cinematographer. An alumnus of the film programs at Concordia University and the University of Southern California, he worked as a camera operator and cinematographer on numerous film and television projects before releasing his own directorial debut, La...
  
  , La Peau blanche,
• Todd Klinck
  Todd Klinck
  Todd Klinck is a Canadian writer, nightclub owner and pornography producer.Klinck moved to Toronto at age 18 to study theatre at York University, but dropped out to focus on his career...
  
  , Jaie Laplante and John Palmer
  John Palmer (director)
  John Palmer is a Canadian theatre and film director and playwright.Cofounder of several Toronto theatre companies in the 1970s, Palmer is primarily a theatre director, whose credits include the original production of Brad Fraser's Wolfboy which marked the first acting role for Keanu Reeves.He has...
  
  , Sugar
• Jacob Tierney
  Jacob Tierney
  Jacob Daniel Tierney is a Canadian actor, film director and screenwriter.Tierney was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of veteran producer Kevin Tierney...
  
  , Twist
  Twist (film)
  Twist is a 2003 Canadian drama film and a queer retelling of Charles Dickens' classic, Oliver Twist.-Plot:The plot is updated to the present day, and moved out of the London poor house onto the streets of Toronto. In addition, the tale is told not from Oliver's point of view, but rather that of Dodge...
  
  

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• 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...
  
   and François Boulay, 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...
  
  
• Louise Archambault, Familia
  Familia (film)
  Familia is a 2005 multi-award–winning French language Canadian drama film. It was directed and written by Louise Archambault.- Plot :The story revolves around two main characters: Michèle , a free-spirited aerobics instructor with a penchant for gambling, and Janine , a suburban housewife and home...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Deepa Mehta
  Deepa Mehta
  Deepa Mehta, LLD is a Genie Award-winning Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire , Earth , and Water , among which Earth was submitted by Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...
  
  , Water
• Luc Picard
  Luc Picard
  Luc Picard is a French Canadian actor and comedian. He was born on September 24, 1961 in Lachine, Quebec, Canada. He has played numerous characters in diverse roles....
  
  , L'Audition

• 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...
  
  , 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:...
  
  
• Diane Cailhier, Le Survenant
• David Christensen, Six Figures
• Luc Dionne
  Luc Dionne
  Luc Dionne is an award winning screenwriter and director born in Quebec in 1960. Luc's work is largely directed towards the French speaking market. However, many within the industry accredit Dionne's successful Omerta series as being an inspiration for David Chase's hit series The...
  
  , Aurore
  Aurore (film)
  Aurore is a 2005 Quebec biographical drama movie that was directed by Luc Dionne and produced by Denise Robert and Daniel Louis. The movie is a remake of Jean-Yves Bigras's 1952 movie La petite Aurore: l'enfant martyre. Aurore is a 2005 Quebec biographical drama movie that was directed by Luc...
  
  
• Nathalie Petrowski, Maman Last Call

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• Philippe Falardeau
  Philippe Falardeau
  Philippe Falardeau is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.His first feature film, La Moitié gauche du frigo won "Best Canadian First Feature" at the Toronto International Film Festival and a Best Screenplay nomination at the Quebec-based Jutra Awards...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Martin Girard, Ghyslaine Côté, Le secret de ma mère
• Stéphane Lapointe, La Vie secrète des gens heureux
  La Vie secrète des gens heureux
  -Plot:Thomas Dufresne is the black sheep of his bourgeois family. One day, he meets a free-spirited waitress named Audrey who changes his life...
  
  
• Ken Scott, Guide de la Petite Vengeance
  Guide de la Petite Vengeance
  Guide de la petite vengeance is a Genie nominated French language Canadian film released in 2006.- Plot :Bernard, an accountant in a jewelry store, plots revenge against his abusive employer, Monsieur Vendôme, with the help of his friend Robert.- Reaction :Guide de la Petite Vengeance earned four...
  
  
• Ken Scott, Maurice Richard

• Robert Favreau
  Robert Favreau
  Robert Favreau is a French Canadian film director and film editor.His film Les muses orphelines earned him Genie Award and Jutra Award nominations for Best Director...
  
  , Gil Courtemanche
  Gil Courtemanche
  Gil Courtemanche was a Canadian progressive journalist and novelist in third-world and international politics. He wrote for the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir.Courtemanche was born in Montreal, Quebec...
  
  , Un dimanche à Kigali
• Mike Clattenburg
  Mike Clattenburg
  Mike Clattenburg is a Canadian TV and film director best known as creator/director of the TV comedy series Trailer Park Boys , and This Hour Has 22 Minutes...
  
  , Robb Wells
  Robb Wells
  Robb Wells is a Canadian actor and screenwriter who portrayed Ricky on Trailer Park Boys.-Early life:Wells was born in Moncton, New Brunswick and moved to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia when he was eight years old...
  
  , Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
• François Létourneau
  François Letourneau
  François Letourneau is a Canadian slalom canoer who competed in the mid 1990s. He finished eighth in the C-2 event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.-References:*...
  
  , 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 :...
  
  

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• Steve Knight, Eastern Promises
• Denys Arcand
  Denys Arcand
  Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions...
  
  , L'Âge des ténèbres
  Days of Darkness
  Days of Darkness is a compilation double CD released by Spitfire Records. The first CD is composed of tracks from Testament's Demonic and The Gathering. The second CD is the entire First Strike Still Deadly album....
  
  
• Douglas Coupland
  Douglas Coupland
  Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and...
  
  , Everything's Gone Green
  Everything's Gone Green (film)
  Everything's Gone Green is a 2006 Canadian comedy film directed by Paul Fox and written by Douglas Coupland. It was produced by Radke Films and True West Films...
  
  
• Pierre Lamothe, Claude Lalonde, 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 ...
  
  
• Marc-André Lavoie
  Marc-André Lavoie
  Marc-André Lavoie is a Canadian director and film producer. He is currently nominated for a Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay for Bluff with Simon Olivier Fecteau and David Gauthier.- Recognition :...
  
  , Simon Olivier Fecteau
  Simon Olivier Fecteau
  Simon Olivier Fecteau is a Canadian director, actor, producer and screenwriter. He is currently nominated for a Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay for Bluff with Marc-André Lavoie and David Gauthier.- Recognition :...
  
  , David Gauthier, Bluff
  Bluff (film)
  Bluff is a 2007 Canadian comedy film. It was directed, written and produced by Simon Olivier Fecteau and Marc-André Lavoie.- Plot :* A building inspector finds a shocking discovery in the basement to a building that is about to be destroyed...
  
  

• Sarah Polley
  Sarah Polley
  Sarah Polley is a Canadian actress, singer, film director, and screenwriter. Polley first attained notice in her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Michael Donovan, Shake Hands With the Devil
• Maureen Medved
  Maureen Medved
  Maureen Medved is a Canadian writer and playwright. She is also an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. She has been published in literary journals and magazines and has had her plays produced in Vancouver, Waterloo and Toronto...
  
  , 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....
  
  

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• Bernard Émond
  Bernard Émond
  Bernard Émond is a French-language Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his spiritual films and documentaries on the human condition.- Director :* 1992 : Ceux qui ont le pas léger meurent sans laisser de traces...
  
  , Ce qu'il faut pour vivre
• Randall Cole, Real Time
  Real Time (film)
  Real Time is a 2008 comedy drama which premiered on 18 January 2008 at the Slamdance Film Festival.-Synopsis:The film is about a hit man who gives a compulsive gambler one hour to live. The movie takes place in real time and its ultimate subject is what we do with the time we have in this world...
  
  
• Travis McDonald, Normal
• Deepa Mehta
  Deepa Mehta
  Deepa Mehta, LLD is a Genie Award-winning Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire , Earth , and Water , among which Earth was submitted by Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...
  
  , Heaven on Earth
  Heaven on Earth (film)
  Heaven on Earth a.k.a Videsh is a 2008 Canadian film directed and written by Deepa Mehta. Preity Zinta plays the leading role of Chand, a young Indian Punjabi woman who finds herself in an abusive arranged marriage with an Indo-Canadian man, played by theatre actor Vansh Bhardwaj...
  
  
• Guillaume Vigneault
  Guillaume Vigneault
  Guillaume Vigneault, born on August 5, 1970, in Montreal, Canada, is a novelist, son of Gilles Vigneault.-Studies and works:After receiving a bachelor's degree in literary studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal and beginning a masters degree in the same subject, he decided to be a novelist,...
  
  , Tout est parfait
  Tout est parfait
  Tout est parfait is a French Canadian film directed by Yves-Christian Fournier. It tells the story of a young man trying to cope with the simultaneous suicide of his four friends....
  
  

• Marie-Sissi Labrèche and Lyne Charlebois, Borderline
• Richie Mehta
  Richie Mehta
  Richie Mehta is a Canadian film director. His first feature film, Amal, was released in 2008, and has been nominated for Best Motion Picture and Best Director at the 29th Genie Awards....
  
   and Shaun Mehta
  Shaun Mehta
  Shaun Mehta is a Canadian writer. He has published one novel and one short story collection to date, and also collaborated with his brother, film director Richie Mehta, on the screenplay for Richie's debut film Amal, which was based on one of Shaun's short stories.Shaun and Richie Mehta were...
  
  , Amal
  Amal (film)
  Amal , 2007, is a Canadian drama film directed and written by Richie Mehta. Set in modern-day New Delhi, India, it tells the story of a poor autorickshaw driver, Amal Kumar....
  
  
• Jeremy Podeswa
  Jeremy Podeswa
  Jeremy Podeswa is a Canadian/American film and television director. He is best known for directing the films The Five Senses and Fugitive Pieces . He has also worked as Director on the television shows Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, The Tudors, Queer as Folk, and the HBO World War II miniseries The...
  
  , Fugitive Pieces
  Fugitive Pieces (film)
  Fugitive Pieces is a 2007 drama film directed by Jeremy Podeswa, who also adapted the film from the award-winning novel of the same name written by Anne Michaels. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, who is orphaned in Poland during World War II and is saved by a Greek archeologist...
  
  

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• Jacques Davidts, 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...
  
  
• David Bezmozgis
  David Bezmozgis
  David Bezmozgis is a Canadian writer and filmmaker.Born in Riga, Latvia, he came to Canada with his family when he was six. He graduated with a B.A. in English literature from McGill University. Bezmozgis received an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television....
  
  , Victoria Day
  Victoria Day (film)
  Victoria Day is a film directed and written by David Bezmozgis. It is being produced by Markham Street Films. The film stars Mark Rendall in the lead role, as well as Holly Deveaux, Sergiy Kotelenets, Nataliya Alyexeyenko, John Mavrogiannis, and Scott Beaudin....
  
  
• 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...
  
  , Adoration
  Adoration (film)
  Adoration is a 2008 Canadian drama film directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Rachel Blanchard, Scott Speedman and Devon Bostick. It is Egoyan's first feature film since Where The Truth Lies....
  
  
• Émile Gaudreault
  Émile Gaudreault
  Émile Gaudreault is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, whose credits include the films Louis 19, le roi des ondes, Nuit de noces, Mambo Italiano, Surviving My Mother and De père en flic....
  
   and Ian Lauzon, De père en flic
• Charles Officer
  Charles Officer
  Charles Officer is a Jamaican-Canadian writer, actor, director and former professional hockey player in the United States.-Director:Officer’s directorial debut, When Morning Comes, premiered at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival...
  
   and Ingrid Veninger
  Ingrid Veninger
  Ingrid Veninger is a Canadian actress and director.Her start in show business was in an advertisement for Bell Canada with Megan Follows at age 11...
  
  , Nurse.Fighter.Boy
  Nurse.Fighter.Boy
  Nurse.Fighter.Boy is a Canadian drama film, originally released in 2008.The film stars Karen LeBlanc as Jude, a widowed single mother undergoing treatment for sickle cell disease. While working as a night-shift nurse to support her son Ciel Nurse.Fighter.Boy is a Canadian drama film, originally...
  
  

• Kari Skogland
  Kari Skogland
  Kari Skogland is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and producer.-Career:Skogland started directing award-winning television commercials and music videos. She moved on to television shows with 1996's Traders...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Tony Burgess
  Tony Burgess
  Tony Burgess is the author of several books including the novel Pontypool Changes Everything. Other works include People Live Still in Cashtown Corners, Ravenna Gets, The Hellmouths of Bewdley, and Caesarea...
  
  , Pontypool
  Pontypool (film)
  Pontypool is a 2009 Canadian horror film directed by Bruce McDonald and adapted by Tony Burgess from Burgess' novel Pontypool Changes Everything.- Plot :...
  
  
• Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Susan Avingaq and Madeline Ivalu
  Madeline Ivalu
  Madeline Ivalu is a Canadian Inuk filmmaker and actor. One of the cofounders of Arnait Video Productions, a women's video and filmmaking collective in Nunavut, she co-directed, co-wrote and starred in Arnait's first feature film production, Before Tomorrow....
  
  , Before Tomorrow
  Before Tomorrow
  Before Tomorrow is a Canadian drama film, released in 2008. Directed by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, the film is an adaptation of the novel For Morgendaggen by Danish writer Jørn Riel...
  
  

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• Jacob Tierney
  Jacob Tierney
  Jacob Daniel Tierney is a Canadian actor, film director and screenwriter.Tierney was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of veteran producer Kevin Tierney...
  
  , The Trotsky
  The Trotsky
  The Trotsky is a 2009 Canadian comedy film directed by Jacob Tierney.-Plot:Montreal West high school student Leon Bronstein believes that he is the reborn incarnation of Marxist/Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky. Shortly after he starts to work in his family's clothing factory, he attempts to unionize...
  
  
• Louis Bélanger
  Louis Bélanger
  Louis Bélanger is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has a degree in Communications from UQAM. He is a close friend and collaborator of filmmaker Denis Chouinard; both men created several short films together before branching off into their own careers with feature films...
  
   and Alexis Martin, Route 132
• Claude Lalonde, 10½
• Adriana Maggs, Grown Up Movie Star
  Grown Up Movie Star
  Grown Up Movie Star is a 2010 Canadian drama film written, directed and co-produced by Adriana Maggs. Shawn Doyle, Jill Knox Gosse and Paul Pope are the other co-producers. The film was produced by Pope Productions and distributed in Canada by Mongrel Media...
  
  
• Peter Stebbings
  Peter Stebbings
  Peter Stebbings is a Canadian veteran actor who started practicing his trade at the Vancouver Youth Theater when he was just 12 years old. He worked at various odd jobs growing up, including bus boy and bike courier, before making the serious move to acting...
  
  , Defendor
  Defendor
  Defendor is a 2009 Canadian superhero comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Stebbings, and starring Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings, Elias Koteas and Sandra Oh. The story tells of a mentally ill man who adopts the persona of a superhero named Defendor on a quest to find his arch enemy,...
  
  

• Denis Villeneuve
  Denis Villeneuve
  Denis Villeneuve is a Canadian film director and writer. In his early career he won Radio-Canada's youth film competition "La Course Europe-Asie" in 1990-91. He is a three-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Director, for Maelström in 2001, Polytechnique in 2010 and Incendies in 2011...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• Michael Konyves
  Michael Konyves
  Michael Konyves is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. Best known for his Genie Award-nominated screenplay for the 2010 film Barney's Version, his past credits include the television films Solar Attack, Descent and Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles.-External links:...
  
  , Barney's Version
  Barney's Version (film)
  Barney's Version is a 2010 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Richard J. Lewis, based on the novel of the same name by Mordecai Richler...
  
  
• Lee MacDougall, High Life
  High Life (film)
  High Life is a 2009 Canadian film based on the stage play by Lee MacDougall, written by Lee MacDougall and directed by Gary Yates. Starring Timothy Olyphant, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Joe Anderson and Rossif Sutherland, High Life is a comedic heist movie from the flip-side of the 80’s consumer dream.-...
  
  
• Vic Sarin
  Vic Sarin
  Vic Sarin is an Indian-born Canadian/American film director, producer and screenwriter. His work as a cinematographer includes Partition, Margaret's Museum, Whale Music, Nowhere to Hide, Norman's Awesome Experience, and Riel. He also directed such projects as Partition, Left Behind, and Wind at My...
  
  , Dennis Foon
  Dennis Foon
  Dennis Foon is an award-winning playwright, producer, screenwriter and novelist. He was artistic director of the Green Thumb Theatre for twelve years, before turning to films and television in 1986. He has written screenplays for many types of drama...
  
   and Catherine Spear, A Shine of Rainbows
  A Shine of Rainbows (film)
  A Shine of Rainbows, also known as Tomás and the Rainbows, is a 2009 Irish family drama, directed and co-written by Vic Sarin and is a film adaptation of the novel A Shine of Rainbows by Lillian Beckwith.-Plot:...
  
  
• Patrick Senécal, Les 7 jours du Talion