Years active 1978 - present Name Lea Pool | Role Filmmaker Children Giulia Pool | |
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Born 8 September 1950 (age 73) ( 1950-09-08 ) Soglio, Switzerland Occupation Film director
Screenwriter Education Universite du Quebec a Montreal Nominations Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Screenplay Movies Lost and Delirious, La passion d\'Augustine, Mommy Is at the Hairdresser\'s, Pink Ribbons - Inc, The Blue Butterfly Similar People Celine Bonnier, Marianne Fortier, Susan Swan, Pascale Bussieres, Jackie Burroughs | ||
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Léa Pool (born 8 September 1950) is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who has also teaches film at UQAM. She has directed several feature films, including Anne Trister (1986) and Emporte-moi (1999), both of which screened at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival, where the latter won the Special Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.
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Early life
Pool was born in Soglio, Switzerland, and raised there, in Lausanne. Her father was Jewish, and was a Holocaust survivor from Poland; her mother's family was Christian and Swiss.
Career
Her film À corps perdu (1988) was selected for official competition in the Venice Film Festival and her film Desire in Motion (Mouvements du désir) (1994) was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. She has been nominated 3 times for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction for her films La Femme de l'hôtel (1984), Desire in Motion (Mouvements du désir) (1994), and Emporte-moi (1999).
In 2006 she was awarded the Prix Albert-Tessier. In 2011, Pool completed the National Film Board of Canada documentary film Pink Ribbons, Inc., partly based on the 2006 book Pink Ribbons, Inc: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy, which is premiering at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
In 2015, Pool released La passion d’Augustine. In an interview, Pool spoke of how this film taught her about Québec culture and issues, specifically pertaining to nuns:
I discovered what the nuns contributed to Québec society. We should remember that it was they who founded the first schools and hospitals in Québec. They accomplished some remarkable things. They symbolize Québec’s national heritage, and we should not simply brush them aside.
Personal life
Pool is a lesbian.