Years active 1963 - 1996 Name Anne Poirier | Role Film producer Books Let me go! | |
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Born 6 June 1932 (age 91) ( 1932-06-06 ) St-Hyacinthe, Canada Occupation Film producer, film director, screenwriter Awards Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary Nominations Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Screenplay Movies A Scream from Silence, Tu as crie: Let Me Go, Salut Victor Similar People Fernand Dansereau, Micheline Lanctot, Luce Guilbeault, Clement Perron, Marie‑Claire Blais | ||
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Anne Claire Poirier O.C. (born 6 June 1932) 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 (1968) is the first feature film ever directed by a French-Canadian woman. Her film Mourir à tue-tête competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Mourir à tue-tête remains Poirier's best known film.
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Poirier was born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. In 1988 she was awarded the Prix Albert-Tessier. In 1996, she directed the feature-length documentary Tu as crié: Let me go to understand the events that led to the murder of her daughter. Tu as crié: Let me go received numerous awards including the Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary.
In 2001, Poirier received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in film. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2003.