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Marie Hélène Cousineau

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Nationality
  
Canadian

Notable work
  
Before Tomorrow, Sol

Years active
  
2000s-present

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Occupation
  
film director, producer

Awards
  
Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Program

Nominations
  
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Screenplay

Movies
  
Before Tomorrow, Myself, Sol, Perdre et retrouver le Nord

Similar
  
Madeline Piujuq Ivalu, Paul‑Dylan Ivalu, Peter‑Henry Arnatsiaq, Zacharias Kunuk, Marianne Farley

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Marie-Hélène Cousineau is a Canadian film director and producer. Originally from Quebec, she moved to Igloolik, Northwest Territories (now in Nunavut) in 1991, where she became a co-founder of the filmmaking collective Arnait Video Productions.

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Her most noted film, Before Tomorrow, was co-directed with Madeline Ivalu and released in 2008. Cousineau and Ivalu were shortlisted Genie Award nominees for Best Director, and alongside co-writer Susan Avingaq for Best Adapted Screenplay, at the 30th Genie Awards in 2010. Cousineau later collaborated with Ivalu on the film Uvanga, and with Avingaq on the documentary film Sol.

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Films

  • Anaana (2001)
  • Before Tomorrow (2008)
  • The Uluit: Champions of the North (2011)
  • Uvanga (2013)
  • Sol (2014)
  • References

    Marie-Hélène Cousineau Wikipedia