Nationality Canadian Name Anne Emond | Role Film director Awards Claude Jutra Award | |
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Born 1982 Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Quebec Occupation Film director and screenwriter Education Universite du Quebec a Montreal Movies Nuit #1, Our Loved Ones, Sophie Lavoie, Naissances Nominations Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Screenplay Similar People Catherine de Lean, Maxim Gaudette, Dimitri Storoge, Karelle Tremblay, Nancy Grant | ||
Anne Emond's latest film Les Etres Chers
Anne Émond (born 1982) is a film director and screenwriter based in Montreal, Quebec.
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Early life and education
Born in 1982, Anne Émond lives and works in Montreal since 2001. In 2005, she completed her undergraduate program in cinema at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).
Career
Since then, she wrote and directed seven short films including L'Ordre des choses (2009), Naissances (2009), Sophie Lavoie (2009) and Plus rien ne vouloir (2011). L'Ordre des choses won the Coop Vidéo Price for Best Director in 2009 at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois. It was also nominated for the Claude Jutra Award. Naissances was chosen as one of the Toronto International Film Festival's top ten short films of 2009 and was nominated at the Brooklyn International Film Festival. Émond's short film Sophie Lavoie won the best short-film for the Festival du Nouveau Cinema.
Her debut feature film, Nuit #1, succeeded in cementing her personal style – a style characterized by long takes, theatrical monologues, and thematics such as youth loneliness and women sexuality. Émond won the Claude Jutra Award for the year's best feature film by a first-time director at the 2012 Genie Awards.
Her second feature film, Our Loved Ones (Les êtres chers), premiered to positive reviews at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2015, and had its Canadian premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The story begins in 1978 in a small village on the Lower St. Lawrence, as the Leblanc family is rocked by the tragic death of Guy. In December, the film was announced as part of TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten screening series of the ten best Canadian feature films of the year.
In 2016 Émond received the Stella Artois Jay Scott Prize, awarded to an emerging artist by the Toronto Film Critics Association, for Our Loved Ones. The film received seven Jutra Award nominations: Best Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Gaudette), Best Art Direction, Best Editing, and Best Hairstyling.
The shooting of her third film, Nelly, started in September 2015.
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