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Patrice Sauvé

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Charles-Olivier Michaud

Charles-Olivier Michaud is a director, writer, and producer from Saint-Romuald, Quebec. His directing credits include 4 Minute Mile, On the Beat, and Snow & Ashes, which have won awards from the Slamdance Film Festival and the Washington DC Independent Film Festival. Ru had its world premiere at TIFF 2023 and was nominated for nine Canadian Screen Awards.

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Shorts Programme

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Miryam Bouchard

Bouchard is an award-winning writer and director who started her career in music videos, and has directed numerous shorts, including La cérémonie, Couleur Wolfe and Roastbeef, and TV series such as La guerre des sexes, Mon ex à moi, L'Échappée, M’entends-tu?, and Mea culpa, among others. Her feature directorial credits include Mon Cirque à Moi, Lignes de fuite, and 23 décembre.

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Robin Aubert

Aubert is a filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. He has starred in many critical and box office hits, such as De père en flic (Father and Guns), Guibord s’en va-t-en guerre (My Internship in Canada), and Mon cirque à moi (My Very Own Circus). He has directed numerous films, including Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés (Saint Martyrs of the Damned), À l'origine d'un cri (Crying Out), and Les Affamés (Ravenous), which won Best Canadian Feature at TIFF and ten Prix Iris.

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Christian Duguay

Duguay is a film director, cinematographer, and producer renowned for his work in action films and historical television miniseries. He directed numerous thrillers, including Scanners II: The New Order, Scanners III: The Takeover, Live Wire, The Art of War, and the mini-series Human Trafficking, starring Donald Sutherland.  He has also directed episodes of Anna Karenina and Medici and the feature films Un sac de billes (A Bag of Marbles), and Tempête (Ride Above).

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Lucy Tulugarjuk (Inuk)

Tulugarjuk is an actor, throat singer, writer and director who has starred in Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, L’iceberg, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen and Maïna, among other films. Tia and Piujuq was her directorial debut. She wrote, directed and starred in What We See, which won the Amplify Voices Award at TIFF 2023.  

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Mélanie Charbonneau

Quebec-based director Charbonneau started her career with directing commercials. Her first short film, Seule played several international festivals including Cannes. Her short film Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous collected over 30 prizes at festivals internationally. Fabuleuses was her first feature. Most recently she directed episodes of Je ne suis pas un robot.

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Francis Leclerc

Francis Leclerc is a Québécois filmmaker who has directed over 20 short films and numerous features. He won Genie Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay for his second feature, Mémoires Affectives, as well as the Jutra Award for Best Direction. His latest film, L’Arracheuse de temps, was nominated for four Canadian Screen Awards and won one. He is currently working on the upcoming feature Le Plongeur.  

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Luc Picard

Luc Picard is a celebrated actor with over 50 film and television credits and two Jutra Awards to his name. He has directed Audition, Babine, Ésimésac, and a segment in the anthology film 9. Les rois mongols earned six Canadian Screen Award nominations. His latest film is Confessions and he recently starred in Arsenault & Fils and French Girl.

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Dominique Monfery

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Stéphane Lafleur

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Anne Émond

Émond's debut feature, Nuit #1, won the Claude Jutra Award for Best Feature by a first time filmmaker at the 2012 Genie Awards. Her other credits include the shorts La vie commence, Sophie Lavoie and Plus rien ne vouloir, and the features Nelly and Les êtres chers, which received seven Jutra Award nominations and won for Best Direction. Her most recent film is Manuel de la vie sauvage. 

Directors

François Brisson

Brisson is a visual artist, animation director, and comic book creator who was instrumental in the early development of Quebec's animation scene, directing the animated films Gene Fusion, La guerre des tuques (Snowtime!), and La course des tuques (Racetime),  as well as episodes of Arthur and The Lost World.

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Ricardo Trogi

Writer and director Trogi’s first film, Québec-Montréal, earned him a Jutra Award for Best Direction and Best Screenplay. His credits also include Horloge biologique, Le Mirage, and the coming-of-age trilogy 1981, 1987, and 1991. He recently co-wrote two seasons of La Maison-Bleue and directed the feature Le Guide de la famille parfaite.

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Alain Desrochers

Desrochers began his filmmaking career with over 100 music videos and commercials. His first feature, La Bouteille (The Bottle), earned him a Genie nomination for Best Direction. He has over 50 directing credits to his name, including the features Nitro, Cabotins (Has-Beens), Nitro Rush, Gerry, Security, and Bon Cop Bad Cop 2, as well as episodes of Les limiers, La marraine, Bad Blood, Transplant, and Le Bonheur, among many others.

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Juan Antin

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Charles Binamé

Binamé has directed numerous films, including Eldorado (which screened at the prestigious Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes), Séraphin: Heart of Stone, Maurice Richard (The Rocket), which won nine Genies, including Best Direction, and Elephant Song, which won three awards, including a CSA for Adapted Screenplay. Has also directed episodes of hit TV shows such as Flashpoint, Rookie Blue, Republic of Doyle and Reign, among others.

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Émile Gaudreault

Gaudreault co-wrote Louis 19, le roi des ondes, which Ron Howard adapted into EDtv. Gaudreault both co-wrote and directed De pere en flic (the highest-grossing French-language film in Canadian history), Le vrai du faux, Le sens de l'humour and Mambo Italiano, which earned six Canadian Comedy Award nominations. He also wrote and directed De père en flic 2, and most recently, the comedy Menteur. He also co-wrote the upcoming Lignes de fuite, and is producing the English-language remake of De père en flic, Fathers and Guns.

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Jean-François Pouliot

In addition to over 500 commercials, Montrealer Pouliot’s credits include feature films Guide de la petite vengeance and the 2015 box-office success Dr. Cabbie as well as the hit animated film Snowtime!. Recently, he directed the feature films Les 3 p’tits cochons 2, Votez Bougon and the Snowtime! sequel, Racetime.

François Brisson

Brisson is a visual artist, animation director, and comic book creator who was instrumental in the early development of Quebec's animation scene, directing the animated films Gene Fusion, La guerre des tuques (Snowtime!), and La course des tuques (Racetime),  as well as episodes of Arthur and The Lost World.