Anne Hébert, was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.
Good Riddance is a 1980 French-language Canadian drama film. Directed by Francis Mankiewicz and written by Réjean Ducharme, the film concerns Manon, an unstable young girl who lives with her mother Michelle and her alcoholic and intellectually disabled uncle Ti-Guy.
The Confessional is a 1995 mystery-drama film directed by Robert Lepage.
Lothaire Bluteau is a Canadian actor.
Jacques Doillon is a French film director. He has a habit of giving lead roles to inexperienced young actresses in his films on family life and women. Some actresses to break through are Fanny Bastien, Sandrine Bonnaire, Judith Godrèche, Marianne Denicourt, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Juliette Binoche.
Yves Simoneau is a Canadian film and television director.
Paul Hébert, OC, CQ was a French Canadian television and stage actor and director, and the founder of six theatres in Quebec. He is best known for his role as Siméon Desrosiers in Le Temps d’une paix, a Canadian soap opera.
Alain Dostie is a Canadian cinematographer, film director and screenwriter. His work includes Silk, The Red Violin and The Confessional. He was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Achievement in Cinematography for his work in Silk.
Marie Tifo is a Canadian actress, and a major star in French-speaking Canada.
Charlotte Valandrey was a French actress and author. After early success she was widely tipped for stardom, but her career took a more modest course until the release of her autobiography in 2005.
Maria Chapdelaine is a Canadian historical drama film, released in 1983. An adaptation of Louis Hémon's novel Maria Chapdelaine, the film was directed by Gilles Carle and starred Carole Laure in the title role.
Happy Memories is a Canadian drama film, directed by Francis Mankiewicz and released in 1981. Identified by film critics as a spiritual if not literal sequel to his previous film Good Riddance , the film stars Julie Vincent as Viviane, a young woman returning home for the first time since running away several years earlier.
In the Belly of the Dragon is a Canadian comedy science fiction film, directed by Yves Simoneau and released in 1989. The film stars David La Haye as Lou, an aimless slacker who is dissatisfied with his job distributing flyers around the city, and signs up to be a drug testing subject for two mysterious scientists ; meanwhile, his delivery colleagues Steve and Bozo must team up to find and rescue him before the medical experiments go horribly wrong.
The Years of Dreams and Revolt is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean-Claude Labrecque and released in 1984. A sequel to his 1975 film The Vultures , the film revisits the story of Louis Pelletier in the 1960s, from the time of his wedding to Claudette in 1963 through to the time of the October Crisis in 1970.
The Child Prodigy is a Canadian drama film, directed by Luc Dionne and released in 2010. A biographical drama about classical pianist André Mathieu, the film stars Guillaume Lebon as Mathieu in childhood and Patrick Drolet as Mathieu in adulthood.
Marcel Beaulieu is a Canadian screenwriter from Quebec. He is most noted as cowriter with Francis Leclerc of the 2004 film Looking for Alexander , for which they won the Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 25th Genie Awards in 2005. Beaulieu and Leclerc were also nominated for the Jutra Award for Best Screenplay at the 7th Jutra Awards the same year.
Angèle Coutu is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the film Borderline, for which she won the Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009, and her long-running television role in the series Two's a Crowd .
Richard Grégoire is a Canadian film and television composer from Montreal, Quebec. He is most noted for his work on the film Being at Home with Claude, for which he won the Genie Award for Best Original Score at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992.
Justine Héroux was a Canadian film and television producer, who was a partner with her husband Denis Héroux in Cite Internationale du Cinema et de L'Audiovisuel, later known as Ciné-Vidéo. She is most noted as a two-time Genie Award nominee as producer of the Best Picture finalists The Plouffe Family at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982 and The Alley Cat at the 7th Genie Awards in 1986, and an Emmy Award nominee as producer of the television miniseries Little Gloria... Happy at Last.
