Occupation Film director Siblings Nicolas Canuel Role Film director | Name Eric Canuel Years active 1997 – present | |
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Born 1964 Montreal, Canada Parents Lucille Papineau, Yvan Canuel Awards Genie Award for Best Short Documentary, Canadian Comedy Award for Multimedia / Best Direction in a Feature Nominations Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Series, Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction Movies Bon Cop - Bad Cop, Bad Hair Day, Cadavres, The Last Tunnel, La Loi du cochon Similar People Patrick Huard, Nicolas Canuel, Sylvain Marcel, Colm Feore, Christian Campbell |
Eric Canuel (born 1961) is a film director and actor from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Eric Canuel (also credited in Quebec as Érik Canuel) began his career in the mid-1980s making music videos for such artists as Paul Piché, Sass Jordan, Norman Iceberg, Vilain Pingouin and Sylvain Cossette. After shooting a number of TV commercials, several of them award-winners, he worked as a director on the television series Big Wolf on Campus, for the Fox network, and The Hunger, broadcast on Showtime and The Movie Network.
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In 2000, his Imax film Hemingway: A Portrait won a Genie Award for best short documentary, as well as the Maximum Image Award for best 2D film at the Miami Aventura Imax Days. Canuel also directed Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher in 2000, Pigs Law (La Loi du cochon) in 2001, Nez Rouge in 2003, Last Tunnel (Le Dernier Tunnel) - starring Michel Côté and Jean Lapointe - in 2004, The Outlander (Le Survenant) in 2005, and Bon Cop, Bad Cop in 2006, receiving numerous nominations and awards.
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In 2010, Eric Canuel directed the episode "Fa la Erica" (season 3, ep. 11) of the TV series Being Erica.
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Many of director Eric Canuel's productions contain a cameo appearance by Canuel.