Genie Award for Best Screenplay
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The Genie Award
Genie Award
Genie Awards are given out to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. From 1949-1979, the awards were named the Canadian Film Awards...

 for Best Screenplay
is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television is a Canadian non-profit organization created in 1979 to recognize over 4,000 Canadian film industry and television industry professionals...

 to the best Canadian screenplay
Screenplay
A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...

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The award's presentation has not always been consistent — in some years, a single award for Best Screenplay has been presented, while in other years separate awards have been presented for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Original

  • Janis Allen, Dan Goldberg, Len Blum
    Len Blum
    Leonard Solomon “Len” Blum, is an award winning Canadian screenwriter, film producer and film composer. He graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1975 and wrote many films including Meatballs, Stripes, Heavy Metal, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Meatballs...

    , Meatballs
    Meatballs (film)
    Meatballs is a 1979 Canadian comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman. It is noted for the first film appearance of Bill Murray in a starring role and for launching Reitman into a distinguished career of financially successful comedies including Stripes and Ghostbusters , both starring Murray...

  • Mireille Dansereau, Heartbreak
  • Anne Claire Poirier
    Anne Claire Poirier
    Anne Claire Poirier 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 is the first feature film ever directed by a French-Canadian woman...

    , Marthe Blackburn,
    A Scream from Silence
    A Scream from Silence
    A Scream from Silence is a 1979 Canadian drama film directed by Anne Claire Poirier. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Julie Vincent - Suzanne* Germain Houde - Le violeur* Paul Savoie - Philippe...

  • Allan Moyle
    Allan Moyle
    Allan Moyle is a Canadian film director. He is best known for directing the films Pump Up the Volume and New Waterford Girl .-Biography:His first major film was Times Square...

    , John Laing, Stephen Lack
    Stephen Lack
    Stephen Lack is a Canadian painter and a film actor best known for his role as the lead character, Cameron Vale, in David Cronenberg's film Scanners.-Life:...

    ,
    Rubber Gun
  • Steven Hilliard Stern
    Steven Hilliard Stern
    Steven Hilliard Stern is a Canadian television and documentary director, producer and writer....

    ,
    Running
    Running (film)
    Running is a 1979 drama/sports film directed by Steven Hilliard Stern. It is about the fictional American marathon runner and Olympics hopeful Michael Andropolis and his struggle to compete in the Olympic Games. It stars Michael Douglas and Susan Anspach....

  • Jim Osborne, Summer's Children

Adapted

  • Diana Maddox and William Gray, The Changeling
    The Changeling (film)
    The Changeling is a 1980 horror film directed by Peter Medak and starring George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere . The story is based upon events that writer Russell Hunter said he experienced while he was living in the Henry Treat Rogers Mansion of Denver, Colorado.-Plot:Scott stars as Dr...

  • Ted Allan
    Ted Allan
    Ted Allan was a Jewish Canadian writer, several of whose books were made into motion pictures.Ted Allan was born in Montreal as Alan Herman. In the 1930s he fought against fascism in Spanish Civil War, along with another Canadian, Norman Bethune...

    ,
    It Rained All Night the Day I Left
  • Jean Beaudin
    Jean Beaudin
    Jean Beaudin is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 20 films since 1969. His film J.A. Martin Photographer, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, where Monique Mercure won the award for Best Actress. The film also won best Film, he won best Director, and Mercure...

     and Marcel Sabourin,
    Cordelia
  • R. J. Dryer and Martin Lager, Jack London's Klondike Fever
    Klondike Fever
    Klondike Fever is a 1980 Canadian adventure film, based on the writings of Jack London.- Plot :* Jack London's journey from San Francisco to the Canadian Klondike gold fields in 1898.- Awards :...

  • Jean-Claude Lord
    Jean-Claude Lord
    Jean-Claude Lord is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He was one of the most commercial of the Quebecois directors in the 1970s and aimed his feature films at a mass audience and dealt with political themes in a mainstream, Hollywood style.-Biography:Jean-Claude Lord began his career as...

     and Jean Salvy,
    Éclair au chocolat

Original

  • Réjean Ducharme
    Réjean Ducharme
    Réjean Ducharme is a Quebec novelist and playwright who currently resides in Montreal. He is extremely reclusive and has not appeared at any public functions since his first successful book was published in 1966...

    ,
    Les Bons Débarras
  • Marc Rosen
    Marc Rosen
    Marc Rosen is an American film and television producer, best known for working on the Harry Potter film franchise and the television show Threshold...

    , Final Assignment
    Final Assignment
    Final Assignment is a 1980 Canadian film written by Marc Rosen and directed by Paul Almond.-Plot:In this complex spy caper, Nicole is a Canadian broadcast journalist working on assignment in the former Soviet Union...

  • Jean-Claude Labrecque
    Jean-Claude Labrecque
    Jean-Claude Labrecque, is a director and cinematographer who learned the basics of filmmaking at the Quebec Film Office and the National Film Board of Canada.-Career:...

    , Jacques Benoit, L'Affaire Coffin
  • Micheline Lanctôt
    Micheline Lanctôt
    Micheline Lanctôt is an actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.-Biography:Lanctôt's post-secondary education was in music, fine arts and theatre at Collège Jésus-Marie in Outremont, and in art history before switching to film animation, which she...

    , L'Homme à tout faire
    L'Homme à tout faire
    L'Homme à tout faire is a 1980 Canadian drama/romance film.- Plot :The Handyman is about the titular character, a shy, self-conscious man , who works for a married woman who turns out to be as shy and self-conscious as him.- Reception :* The film earned 6 Genie Award nominations in 1981 in the...

  • Ken Mitchell
    Ken Mitchell
    Ken Mitchell is a Canadian poet, novelist and playwright. Mitchell was raised on a rural farm outside the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Mitchell began his post-secondary education as a journalism student at Ryerson University, Toronto. He later attended the University of Saskatchewan, where he...

    , The Hounds of Notre Dame
    The Hounds of Notre Dame
    - Plot :* Father Athol Murray is a hard working man who inspires his students to become better people through education and athletics.- Reception :* The film earned 9 Genie Award nominations in 1981 in the categories of:...


Adapted

  • Max Fischer, The Lucky Star
    The Lucky Star (film)
    - Plot :A young Jewish boy who escapes from the traumas of war-torn Holland by living in a fantasy world of American westerns - where good triumphs over evil and the outcast becomes a hero.- Recognition :* 1981...

  • Bernard Slade
    Bernard Slade
    Bernard Slade is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter.Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Slade began his career as an actor with the Garden Center Theatre in Vineland, Ontario. In the mid-1960s, he relocated to Hollywood and began to work as a writer for television sitcoms, including Bewitched...

    ,
    Tribute
  • Ronald Sutherland and Robin Spry
    Robin Spry
    Robin Spry was a Canadian filmmaker and television producer best known for his documentary film Action: The October Crisis of 1970 about Quebec's October Crisis.-Profile:...

    ,
    Suzanne

Original

  • Terry Heffernan, Heartaches
  • Clay Borris, Alligator Shoes
  • Paul Illidge, James Sanderson, Head On
    Head On (1980 film)
    Head On is a 1980 Canadian drama film directed by Michael Grant. It was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Sally Kellerman - Michelle Keys* Stephen Lack - Peter Hill* Lawrence Dane - Frank Keys* J.P...

  • Adam Arkin
    Adam Arkin
    Adam Arkin is an American television, film and stage actor and director. He played the role of Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope. He has been nominated for numerous awards, including a Tony as well as 3 primetime Emmys, 4 SAG Awards , and a DGA Award...

    , Ian Sutherland, Morrie Ruvinsky, Improper Channels
    Improper Channels
    Improper Channels is a 1981 comedy-drama film starring Alan Arkin and Mariette Hartley, both of whom were nominated for Genie Awards for their performances. Arkin plays an architect named Jeff Martley who is erroneously accused of child abuse by an overzealous social worker . Hartley plays...

  • Réjean Ducharme
    Réjean Ducharme
    Réjean Ducharme is a Quebec novelist and playwright who currently resides in Montreal. He is extremely reclusive and has not appeared at any public functions since his first successful book was published in 1966...

    , Les Beaux Souvenirs
  • David Cronenberg
    David Cronenberg
    David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...

    , Scanners
    Scanners
    Scanners is a 1981 science-fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan...


Adapted

  • Roger Lemelin
    Roger Lemelin
    Roger Lemelin, was a Quebec novelist, television writer and essayist.-Biography:Lemelin was born in Quebec City. From 1944 to 1952, he was a Canadian correspondent for the American magazines Time and Life and, from 1972 to 1981, chief executive officer and editor of La Presse.In 1980 he was made...

     and Gilles Carle, Les Plouffe
    Les Plouffe
    Les Plouffe is a Canadian drama film, based on a novel, about the titular Plouffe family, set during World War II.-Awards:...

  • Anne Cameron
    Anne Cameron
    Anne Cameron , August 20, 1938 in Nanaimo, British Columbia) is a Canadian novelist, poet, screenwriter and short story writer. Much of her work is inspired by Northwest Coast First Nations mythology and culture....

     and Ralph L. Thomas
    Ralph L. Thomas
    Ralph L. Thomas is a Brazilian born Canadian film director and screenwriter. He was born to Canadian Baptist missionary parents and grew up in Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1961 and began to write for the entertainment pages of the Toronto Star a year later...

    ,
    Ticket to Heaven
    Ticket to Heaven
    Ticket to Heaven is a 1981 Canadian film about the recruiting of a man into a group portrayed to be a cult, and his life in the group until forcibly extracted by his family and friends. The film was directed by Ralph L. Thomas...

  • Diana Maddox, The Amateur

Original

  • John Hunter, The Grey Fox
  • Phil Savath, Laurence Keane, Chris Windsor
    Chris Windsor
    Chris Windsor is an English footballer who played as a midfielder for Melbourne Victory.-Career:After moving to Australia at the beginning of 2010, Christian Windsor was signed to play for Melbourne for 5 months during the Australian winter...

    , Big Meat Eater
  • David Lee Henry, Harry Tracy
  • John Juliani
    John Juliani
    John Juliani was a Canadian actor, writer, producer, director and educator. His career spanned four decades in a number of different media, including radio and film. In addition to his artistic contributions, Juliani was a strong advocate of Canadian theatre and the arts...

    , Sharon Riis, Latitude 55
  • Roger Fournier, Une journeé en taxi
    Une journée en taxi
    Une journée en taxi is a 1982 French-language Canadian/French drama film.- Plot :A man named Johnny , who becomes the fall guy for a bank robbery is released from prison on a 36 hour parole. He takes a taxi, driven by Michel...


Adapted

  • Richard Paluck and Robert Guza, Jr.
    Robert Guza, Jr.
    Robert Guza Jr. is an American television writer and producer, and formally held the position as Head Writer on the long running ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. He was fired by Brian Frons.-Personal life:...

    , Melanie
  • Peter Dion, Hot Touch

5th Genie Awards
5th Genie Awards
The 5th Genie Awards were presented on March 21, 1984, at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto. The awards ceremony was hosted by Louis Del Grande.Best Motion PictureWinner: The Terry Fox Story, Robert M...

  • Bob Clark
    Bob Clark
    Benjamin "Bob" Clark was an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing and writing the script with Jean Shepherd to the 1983 Christmas film A Christmas Story...

    ,
    A Christmas Story
    A Christmas Story
    A Christmas Story is a 1983 American Christmas comedy film based on the short stories and semi-fictional anecdotes of author and raconteur Jean Shepherd, including material from his books In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories. It was directed by Bob Clark...

  • David Cronenberg
    David Cronenberg
    David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...

    ,
    Videodrome
    Videodrome
    Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and singer Deborah Harry. Set in Toronto during the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small cable station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal featuring...

  • Jack Darcus
    Jack Darcus
    Jack Winston Darcus is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and painter. Since graduating from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1963, Jack Darcus has divided his artistic career between painting and filmmaking...

    ,
    Deserters
  • Timothy Findley
    Timothy Findley
    Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC, O.Ont was a Canadian novelist and playwright. He was also informally known by the nickname Tiff or Tiffy, an acronym of his initials.-Biography:...

    ,
    The Wars
    The Wars
    The Wars is a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley telling the story of a young Canadian officer in World War I. First published by Clarke Irwin, it won the Governor General's Award for fiction in 1977.-Plot overview:...


6th Genie Awards
6th Genie Awards
The 6th Genie Awards is generally considered the pinnacle of the Canadian Genie Awards' popularity. It was the first time the Genies were broadcast live across Canada and they drew 1.9 million viewers, a record never since equalled. The event, held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre was...

  • Daniel Petrie
    Daniel Petrie
    Daniel Mannix Petrie was a Canadian television and movie director.Petrie was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Mary Anne and William Mark Petrie, a soft-drink manufacturer. He moved to the United States in 1945...

    ,
    The Bay Boy
    The Bay Boy
    The Bay Boy is a 1984 Canadian film. It is a semi-autobiographical film based on director Daniel Petrie's experiences of growing up in Glace Bay, a mining town on Cape Breton Island, during the Great Depression...

  • Micheline Lanctôt
    Micheline Lanctôt
    Micheline Lanctôt is an actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.-Biography:Lanctôt's post-secondary education was in music, fine arts and theatre at Collège Jésus-Marie in Outremont, and in art history before switching to film animation, which she...

    ,
    Sonatine
  • Michel Langlois and Léa Pool
    Léa Pool
    Léa Pool is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who has also taught film at UQAM. She is openly lesbian. Her 1986 film Anne Trister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1999 film Emporte-moi was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Special...

    ,
    La Femme de l'hôtel
    La Femme de l'hôtel
    La Femme de l'hôtel is a 1984 Canadian French-language drama film directed by Léa Pool.-Plot:* Andrea Richler is a well-known director who returns to her home town of Montreal to film a high-budget musical drama. At her hotel, she has a brief but unsettling encounter with a suicidal elderly woman...

  • Don Owen, Unfinished Business

7th Genie Awards
7th Genie Awards
The 7th Genie Awards were held March 20, 1986 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. It was co-hosted by Leslie Nielsen and Catherine Mary Stewart.-Award winners:Best Motion PictureWinner: My American Cousin, Peter O'BrianOther Nominees:...

  • Sandy Wilson
    Sandy Wilson (director)
    Sandra "Sandy" Wilson is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her films My American Cousin and Harmony Cats. Harmony Cats was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction and the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture...

    ,
    My American Cousin
    My American Cousin
    My American Cousin is a Canadian drama film, released in 1985. Written and directed by Sandy Wilson based on her own childhood, the film stars Margaret Langrick as Sandy Wilcox, a pre-teen girl growing up on a ranch in rural Penticton, British Columbia in the late 1950s...

  • Lise Lemay-Rousseau, Le Matou
    Le Matou
    Le Matou is a 1985 Canadian/French French-language drama film based on the homonymous novel of Yves Beauchemin.- Plot :Florent and his wife Elise always had one dream: to own a restaurant...

  • Mordecai Richler
    Mordecai Richler
    Mordecai Richler, CC was a Canadian Jewish author, screenwriter and essayist. A leading critic called him "the great shining star of his Canadian literary generation" and a pivotal figure in the country's history. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney's Version,...

    , Joshua Then and Now
    Joshua Then and Now (film)
    Joshua Then and Now is a 1985 film and a TV mini-series, adapted by Mordecai Richler from his semi-autobiographical novel Joshua Then and Now. James Woods starred as the adult Joshua, Gabrielle Lazure as his wife, and Alan Arkin as Joshua's father...

  • Louise Rinfret and Claude Jutra
    Claude Jutra
    Claude Jutra was a Canadian actor, film director and writer. The Prix Jutra are named in his honor because of his importance in Quebec cinema history. He was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec....

    , La Dame en couleurs

Original

  • Denys Arcand
    Denys Arcand
    Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions...

    , Le Déclin de l'empire américain
    Le Déclin de l'empire américain
    The Decline of the American Empire is a 1986 Québécois comedy/drama film directed by Denys Arcand. It was followed by a sequel, The Barbarian Invasions in 2003.-Synopsis:...

  • Sharon Riis, Loyalties
  • Yves Simoneau
    Yves Simoneau
    Yves Simoneau is a Canadian film and television director.-Recognition:His acclaimed 1987 crime drama Pouvoir intime garnered multiple Genie Awards nominations including best direction at the 8th Genie Awards...

    , Pierre Curzi
    Pierre Curzi
    Pierre Curzi is an actor, screenwriter and politician in Quebec, Canada. He is the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Borduas in the Montérégie region south of Montreal...

    ,
    Pouvoir Intime
    Pouvoir intime
    Pouvoir intime is a 1986 Canadian thriller film.- Plot :A government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy figure, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armoured truck...

  • Richard Nochol, Sitting in Limbo
    Sitting in Limbo
    Sitting In Limbo is the 2007 album by torch song singer Jessica Molaskey, featuring herself and her husband John Pizzarelli. Also on the album is John's younger brother Martin Pizzarelli, interspered with guest appearances by tenor saxophonist Harry Allen....

  • Michael Jones
    Mike Jones (writer)
    Mike Jones is a Canadian screenwriter, whose credits include the films The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood and Secret Nation.He is the brother of comedic actors Andy Jones and Cathy Jones.-References:...

     and Andy Jones
    Andy Jones (comedian)
    Andrew Jordan Jones is a Canadian comedian, and a former member of CODCO.Andy Jones was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador...

    ,
    The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood
    The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood
    The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood is a surreal Canadian comedy film, released in 1986. The film was directed by Andy Jones and written by Andy and Mike Jones, with the collaboration of a number of workshop participants...


Adapted

  • Leon Marr, Dancing in the Dark
  • Gordon Pinsent
    Gordon Pinsent
    Gordon Edward Pinsent, CC, FRSC is a Canadian television, theatre and film actor.-Early life:Pinsent, the youngest of six children, was born in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, the son of Flossie ; originally from Clifton, Newfoundland, and Stephen Arthur Pinsent, a papermill worker and cobbler;...

    , John and the Missus
    John and the Missus
    John and the Missus is a 1986 Canadian drama film. The film was directed by and starred Gordon Pinsent who wrote the screenplay from his 1974 novel of the same name.- Plot :...

  • Peter Row, Lost!
    Lost!
    "Lost!" is a song by the English alternative rock band Coldplay. The band co-produced it with Brian Eno and Markus Dravs for their fourth album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends...


9th Genie Awards
9th Genie Awards
The 9th annual Genie Awards were held March 22, 1988 and honoured Canadian films released in 1987. The ceremony was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was co-hosted by Megan Follows and Gordon Pinsent...

  • Jean-Claude Lauzon
    Jean-Claude Lauzon
    Jean-Claude Lauzon was a Canadian filmmaker. Born to a humble family in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Lauzon worked a variety of odd jobs after dropping out of high school. He went on to study film at the Université du Québec à Montréal at the behest of Andre Petrowski, a member of the National Film...

    , Un Zoo la nuit
  • Sally Bochner, John N. Smith
    John N. Smith
    John N. Smith is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He began his career making documentary and short films before moving on to feature films and then finally working primarily in television. His work has been nominated in the Academy Awards, Genie Awards, and Gemini Awards, but has only...

     and Sam Grana,
    Train of Dreams
    Train of Dreams
    Train of Dreams is a 1987 Canadian film starring Jason St. Armour, Christopher Neil and Fred Ward as a popular teacher. It was directed by nominee John N...

  • Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...

    ,
    Family Viewing
    Family Viewing
    - Plot :Van's father, Stan , is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen . Although he could afford having her at home, she is spending her days watching TV in an old people's home. Van often visits her. He meets Aline , whose...

  • William D. MacGillivray
    William D. MacGillivray
    William D. MacGillivray is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. MacGillivray studied art and design at NSCAD University and at Concordia University. He then studied filmmaking at the London Film School in England in 1972...

    ,
    Life Classes
    Life Classes
    Life Classes is a 1987 Canadian drama film directed by William D. MacGillivray.- Plot :Mary Cameron lives on the Canadian island of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. There, she enjoys a warm relationship with an old woman she calls Nanny , who regales her with stories of the Gaelic past...

  • Patricia Rozema
    Patricia Rozema
    Patricia Rozema is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.-Life and career:Rozema was born in Kingston, Ontario and raised in Sarnia, Ontario. Her parents, Jacoba Berandina and Jan Rozema, were Dutch Calvinists. Television was severely restricted and she didn’t go to a movie theatre until she...

    ,
    I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
    I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
    I've Heard the Mermaids Singing is a 1987 theatrical-release feature film, directed by Patricia Rozema. The title is taken from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot.-Plot:...


Original

  • Trevor Rhone, Glen Salzman, Milk and Honey
  • André Melançon, Jacques Bobet, La Grenouille et La Baleine
  • Marie-Jose Raymond, Claude Fournier, Michel Cournot
    Michel Cournot
    Michel Cournot was a French journalist, screenwriter and film director. His only film as a director, Les Gauloises bleues, was due to be entered at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled because to the events of May 1968 in France.-External links:...

    , Les Tisserands du Pouvoir
  • Guy Maddin
    Guy Maddin
    Guy Maddin, OM is a Canadian screenwriter, director, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films from Winnipeg, Manitoba...

    , Tales from the Gimli Hospital
    Tales from the Gimli Hospital
    Tales from the Gimli Hospital, directed by Guy Maddin, is a black-and-white 1988 psychodrama which incorporates elements of surrealism, black comedy, and expressionism.-Plot synopsis:...

  • Michael Rubbo
    Michael Rubbo
    Michael Dattilo Rubbo is an Australian filmmaker who has written and directed over 50 films in documentary and fiction....

    , Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
    Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
    Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller is the name of a 1988 Canadian film, which was written and directed by Michael Rubbo. It is the seventh in the Tales for All series of children's movies created by Les Productions la Fête.-Premise:...


Adapted

  • Norman Snider, David Cronenberg
    David Cronenberg
    David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...

    , Dead Ringers
  • Jackie Burroughs
    Jackie Burroughs
    Jacqueline "Jackie" Burroughs was an English-born Canadian actress.-Life and career:Born in Lancashire, England, Burroughs acted in live theatre at Ontario's Stratford Festival...

    ,
    A Winter Tan
    A Winter Tan
    A Winter Tan is a Canadian drama film, released in 1987. Based on the book Give Sorrow Words by Maryse Holder, the film stars Jackie Burroughs as Holder....

  • Francis Mankiewicz
    Francis Mankiewicz
    Francis Mankiewicz was a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. In 1945, his family moved to Montreal, where Francis would spend all his childhood. He was a relative of Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Herman J...

    , Jacques Savoie,
    Les Portes Tournantes
    Les Portes tournantes
    Les Portes tournantes is a Canadian-French French-language drama film.-Cast:* Monique Spaziani - Céleste* Gabriel Arcand - Madrigal Blaudelle* Miou-Miou - Lauda* François Méthé - Antoine...

  • Robin Spry
    Robin Spry
    Robin Spry was a Canadian filmmaker and television producer best known for his documentary film Action: The October Crisis of 1970 about Quebec's October Crisis.-Profile:...

    , Douglas Bowie,
    Obsessed
    Obsessed (1987 film)
    Hitting Home is a 1987 Canadian drama film. The story is based on a book by Tom Alderman.- Plot :A Canadian mother and businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex , is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private...

  • Phil Savath, The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
    The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
    The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick is a 1990 Canadian film based on the novel by Morley Torgov.-Plot:The story is about a young Jewish boy from a small Manitoba community who has an overbearing family. To make matters more difficult, he likes a Christian girl, whom he later competes with in a...


Original

  • Denys Arcand
    Denys Arcand
    Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions...

    ,
    Jesus de Montreal
  • Anne Wheeler
    Anne Wheeler
    Anne Wheeler, OC is a Canadian film and television writer, producer and director. Graduating in Mathematics from the University of Alberta she was a computer programmer before traveling abroad. Her years of travels inspired her to become a storyteller and when she returned she joined a group of...

    , Bye Bye Blues
    Bye Bye Blues (film)
    Bye Bye Blues is a Canadian film, released in 1989. It was written and directed by Anne Wheeler and produced by Alberta Motion Picture Development Corporation with assistance of Allarcom Limited.-Plot:...

  • Don McKellar
    Don McKellar
    -Personal life:McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College...

    , Roadkill
  • Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...

    , Speaking Parts
    Speaking Parts
    Speaking Parts is a 1989 Canadian drama film from Atom Egoyan. It earned a Best Motion Picture nomination, including five others, at the 1989 Genie Awards.- Plot :...

  • Colleen Murphy, Termini Station
    Termini Station
    Termini Station may refer to:* Termini Station, a train station in Rome,* Termini Station, a Canadian drama film released in 1989....

  • Peter Mettler
    Peter Mettler
    Peter Mettler is a Canadian film director and cinematographer.-Biography:Peter Mettler was born in 1958 to Swiss parents and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...

    , The Top of His Head
    The Top of His Head
    The Top of His Head is a Canadian comedy-drama film, released in 1989. Written and directed by Peter Mettler, the film stars Stephen Ouimette as Gus, a satellite dish salesman whose life is turned upside down when he meets Lucy , a politically radical performance artist.The film's soundtrack, The...


Adapted

  • Richard Beattie, L. Elliot Simms, Cold Comfort
  • Dany Laferrière
    Dany Laferrière
    Dany Laferrière is a francophone Haitian and Canadian novelist and journalist.Born in Port-au-Prince, Haïti, and raised in Petit Goâve, Laferrière worked as a journalist in Haïti before moving to Canada in 1976...

    , Richard Sadler
    Richard Sadler
    Richard Sadler is a producer, scenarist and Director .- As a producer :* 1984 : The Gunrunner directed by Nardo Castillo...

    ,
    Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer
  • John Varley
    John Varley (author)
    John Herbert Varley is an American science fiction author.-Biography:Varley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, and graduated from Nederland High School. He went to Michigan State University on a National Merit Scholarship because, of the schools that he could afford, it...

    ,
    Millennium
    Millennium (film)
    Millennium is a 1989 film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Robert Joy, Brent Carver, Al Waxman and Daniel J. Travanti. The original music score was composed by Eric N. Robertson...


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  • Paul Quarrington
    Paul Quarrington
    Paul Lewis Quarrington was a Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator.-Background:...

    , Eugene Lipinski,
    Perfectly Normal
    Perfectly Normal
    Perfectly Normal is a Canadian comedy film, released in 1991. Directed by Yves Simoneau and written by Eugene Lipinski and Paul Quarrington, the film starred Robbie Coltrane, Michael Riley and Kenneth Welsh.-Cast:*Robbie Coltrane as Alonzo Turner...

  • Claire Wojas, Amoureux Fou
  • Darrell Wasyk
    Darrell Wasyk
    Darrell Wasyk is a Canadian film director.-Biography:Darrell Wasyk was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada...

    , H
    H (1990 film)
    -Plot summary:H is about two heroin addicts, Michele, Pascale Montpetit and Snake, Martin Neufeld, who struggle to withdraw from the drug. They do it “cold turkey”. Snake nails the apartment door shut: they are determined to come clean. Michele awakens to discover she has been “betrayed” by her...

  • Pierre Falardeau
    Pierre Falardeau
    Pierre Falardeau was a Quebec film and documentary director, pamphleteer and noted activist for Quebec independence.-Profile:Falardeau studied anthropology at university and he taught that subject for a brief period...

    , Le Party
  • André Forcier, Jacques Marcotte, Un Histoire inventée

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  • Brian Moore
    Brian Moore (novelist)
    Brian Moore was a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The...

    , Black Robe
    Black Robe (film)
    Black Robe is a 1991 film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay was written by Northern Irish-Canadian author Brian Moore, who adapted it from his novel of the same name....

  • James DeFelice, Anne Wheeler
    Anne Wheeler
    Anne Wheeler, OC is a Canadian film and television writer, producer and director. Graduating in Mathematics from the University of Alberta she was a computer programmer before traveling abroad. Her years of travels inspired her to become a storyteller and when she returned she joined a group of...

    ,
    Angel Square
    Angel Square
    Angel Square is a 1990 Canadian film set in 1945 and based on the novel of the same title by Brian Doyle. Many of his books are set in Ottawa, Canada.-Summary:...

  • Léa Pool
    Léa Pool
    Léa Pool is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who has also taught film at UQAM. She is openly lesbian. Her 1986 film Anne Trister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1999 film Emporte-moi was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Special...

    , Laurent Gagliardi, Michel Langlois,
    La Demoiselle sauvage

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  • Jean-Claude Lauzon
    Jean-Claude Lauzon
    Jean-Claude Lauzon was a Canadian filmmaker. Born to a humble family in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Lauzon worked a variety of odd jobs after dropping out of high school. He went on to study film at the Université du Québec à Montréal at the behest of Andre Petrowski, a member of the National Film...

    ,
    Léolo
    Léolo
    Léolo is a 1992 film by Quebecois director Jean-Claude Lauzon.The film tells the story of Léo Lauzon , a young boy living in a Montreal tenement with his dysfunctional family. He uses his active fantasy life and the book L'avalée des avalés by Québécois novelist Réjean Ducharme to escape the...

  • Paul Donovan
    Paul Donovan (writer)
    Paul Donovan is a Canadian television and film writer, director and producer best known as the creator of the science-fiction TV series, LEXX. He co-founded Salter Street Films with his brother Michael Donovan....

    , Bill Fleming, Buried on Sunday
    Buried on Sunday
    Buried on Sunday is a Canadian comedy film, released in 1992. It was directed by Paul Donovan, and written by Donovan and Bill Fleming.The film stars Paul Gross as Augustus Knickel, the mayor of Solomon Gundy, a fictional island off the coast of Nova Scotia...

  • Paul Tana, Bruno Ramirez, La Sarrasine
  • Jeff Shultz, North of Pittsburgh
  • Francis Damberger, Solitaire
    Solitaire (film)
    Solitaire is an independent coming of age drama film in pre-production from director Victor Franko and Rand Alan Sabatini of Rand Alan Studios with a planned cast of 10. This was late pornstar/actress Marilyn Chambers' final film.-Featured cast :-External links:**...


Adapted

  • David Cronenberg
    David Cronenberg
    David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...

    , Naked Lunch
    Naked Lunch (film)
    Naked Lunch is the 1991 Canadian/British/Japanese film adaptation, directed by David Cronenberg, of William S. Burroughs' novel of the same name...

  • Kelly Rebar, Bordertown Café
    Bordertown Café
    Bordertown Café is a Canadian drama film, originally released in 1992. The screenplay was written by Kelly Rebar based on her award-winning 1990 play of the same name, and the film was directed by Norma Bailey. The film stars Janet Wright and Susan Hogan...

  • Yvon Rivard, Jacques Leduc, La Vie Fantôme
  • David Brandes, The Quarrel
    The Quarrel
    The Quarrel is a 1991 Canadian film directed by Eli Cohen and starring Saul Rubinek and R. H. Thomson. The film was written by David Brandes and Joseph Telushkin.- Summary :...

  • Gail Singer, True Confections

14th Genie Awards
14th Genie Awards
-Best Motion Picture:*Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, Niv Fichman, producer*La Florida, Pierre Sarrazin and Claude Bonin, producers*Harmony Cats, Richard Davis and Alan Morinis, producers*The Lotus Eaters, Sharon McGowan, producer...

  • Peggy Thompson, The Lotus Eaters
  • Suzette Couture and Pierre Sarrazin, La Florida
    La Florida (film)
    La Florida is a Quebec comedy film, released in 1993. The film was directed by George Mihalka, and written by Suzette Couture and Pierre Sarrazin.-Synopsis:...

  • Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...

    , Calendar
  • François Girard
    François Girard
    François Girard is a French-Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Born in Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit...

     and Don McKellar
    Don McKellar
    -Personal life:McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College...

    , Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
  • David King, Harmony Cats
    Harmony Cats
    - Plot :Harmony Cats is about a violinist named Graham Braithwaite who plays with a British Columbia symphony. One day, the symphony stops playing permantently and Graham is left to find work elsewhere...


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  • Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...

    , Exotica
    Exotica
    Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same title, popular during the 1950s to mid-1960s, typically with the suburban set who came of age during World War II. The musical colloquialism, exotica, means tropical ersatz: the non-native, pseudo experience of Oceania...

  • Mina Shum
    Mina Shum
    Mina Shum is an independent Canadian filmmaker. She is director resident at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto...

    ,
    Double Happiness
    Double Happiness (film)
    Double Happiness is a 1994 film by Canadian director Mina Shum, co-produced by First Generations Films and the National Film Board of Canada....

  • Gilles Desjardins, Les Pots Casses
  • Roger Cantin, Matusalem
  • Léa Pool
    Léa Pool
    Léa Pool is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who has also taught film at UQAM. She is openly lesbian. Her 1986 film Anne Trister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1999 film Emporte-moi was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Special...

    ,
    Mouvements du Desir

Adapted

  • Brad Fraser
    Brad Fraser
    Brad Fraser is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and cultural commentator. He is one of the most widely produced Canadian playwrights both in Canada and internationally. Fraser's plays typically feature a harsh yet comical view of contemporary life in Canada, including frank depictions of...

    ,
    Love and Human Remains
    Love and Human Remains
    Love and Human Remains is a 1993 Canadian film directed by Denys Arcand and based on Brad Fraser's stage play Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love. Fraser also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation...

  • Jefferson Lewis, Ordinary Magic
    Ordinary Magic
    Ordinary Magic is a 1993 Canadian film about a boy who is raised in India by his father. The story is based on a novel by Malcolm Bosse.-Plot:...

  • Paul Quarrington
    Paul Quarrington
    Paul Lewis Quarrington was a Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator.-Background:...

     and Richard J. Lewis
    Richard J. Lewis
    Richard J. Lewis is a television and film director born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.From 2002 to 2009, Lewis worked on the CBS television crime`drama series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as writer, director and co-executive producer....

    , Whale Music
    Whale Music (film)
    Whale Music is a 1994 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Richard J. Lewis. It is based on the comic novel of the same name by Paul Quarrington .-Plot:...


16th Genie Awards
16th Genie Awards
The 16th Genie Awards were held on January 14, 1996, to honour films released in 1995. The ceremony took place in Montreal, at Société Radio-Canada's Studio 42....

  • Gerald Wexler and Mort Ransen, Margaret's Museum
    Margaret's Museum
    Margaret's Museum is a critically acclaimed 1995 British-Canadian dark film drama, directed by Mort Ransen and based on Sheldon Currie's novel The Glace Bay Miners' Museum....

  • Sylvain Guy, Liste noire
  • Clément Virgo
    Clement Virgo
    Clément Virgo is a Canadian filmmaker of international acclaim. His latest feature, the boxing drama Poor Boy's Game, stars Danny Glover and Rossif Sutherland...

    ,
    Rude
    Rude (film)
    Rude is a 1995 Canadian crime film directed by Clement Virgo. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Maurice Dean Wint - General* Rachael Crawford - Maxine* Clark Johnson - Reece...

  • Stephen Williams
    Stephen Williams (director)
    Stephen Williams is a Canadian film and television director. Williams has directed several modern day television programs including work as a regular director on the ABC drama series Lost, where he was also a co-executive producer...

    ,
    Soul Survivor

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  • Pierre Gang, Sous-sol
  • Andrew Rai Berzins, Blood and Donuts
    Blood and Donuts
    Blood and Donuts is a Canadian comedy/horror motion picture directed by Holly Dale, and starring Gordon Currie and Helene Clarkson, with David Cronenberg playing a cameo role as the local crime boss. The film features a vampire who is accidentally awakened after 25 years of sleep, and starts to...

  • Gilles Carle, Pudding chômeur
  • Donald Martin, Never Too Late
  • Peter Wellington
    Peter Wellington (director)
    Peter Wellington is a Canadian film and television director, best known for the films Joe's So Mean to Josephine, for which he won the Claude Jutra Award in 1996, and Luck....

     and Doug Smith, The Boy's Club

Adapted

  • David Cronenberg
    David Cronenberg
    David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...

    , Crash
    Crash (1996 film)
    Crash is a 1996 Canadian/British drama thriller film written and directed by David Cronenberg based on the J. G. Ballard 1973 novel of the same name. It tells the story of a group of people who take sexual pleasure from car accidents, a notable form of paraphilia. The film generated considerable...

  • Noel Baker, Hard Core Logo
    Hard Core Logo
    Hard Core Logo is a 1996 Canadian mockumentary adapted by Noel Baker from the novel of the same name by author Michael Turner. Director Bruce McDonald illustrates the self-destruction of punk rock...

  • Michel Marc Bouchard
    Michel Marc Bouchard
    Michel Marc Bouchard is a gay Canadian playwright.Born in Saint-Cœur-de-Marie, Quebec, he studied theatre at the University of Ottawa. Bouchard made his professional playwriting debut in 1983 and since then has written some 25 plays...

     and Linda Gaboriau
    Linda Gaboriau
    Linda Gaboriau is a Canadian dramaturg and literary translator who has translated some 100 plays and novels by Quebec writers, including many of the Quebec plays best known to English-speaking Canadian audiences....

    ,
    Lilies
    Lilies (film)
    Lilies is a 1996 Canadian film directed by John Greyson. It is an adaptation by Michel Marc Bouchard and Linda Gaboriau of Bouchard's own play Les feluettes. It depicts a play being performed in a prison by the inmates.-Expository narration:...

  • John L'Ecuyer
    John L'Ecuyer
    John L'Ecuyer is a Canadian film and television director. He is the younger brother of Gerald L'Ecuyer, a noted Canadian film and television director. L'Ecuyer studied at Ryerson University in Toronto, where his classmates included screenwriter Brad Abraham.His first feature, Curtis's Charm , was...

    ,
    Curtis's Charm
  • Robert Lepage
    Robert Lepage
    Robert Lepage, is a playwright, actor, film director, and stage director from Québec City, Québec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.- Life and work :...

     and Marie Brassard
    Marie Brassard
    Marie Brassard is a Quebec actress, author and theatre director living in Montreal. For many years her professional endeavors were closely linked with Robert Lepage...

    ,
    Le Polygraphe

18th Genie Awards
18th Genie Awards
-Best Picture:*The Sweet Hereafter, Atom Egoyan and Camelia Frieberg, producers*Cosmos, Roger Frappier, producer*The Hanging Garden, Thom Fitzgerald and Louise Garfield, producers*Karmina, Nicole Robert, producer...

  • Thom Fitzgerald
    Thom Fitzgerald
    Thomas "Thom" Fitzgerald is an award winning American-Canadian film director as well live theater director.-Life:Fitzgerald was born and raised in New Rochelle, New York. His parents divorced when he was five years old. He moved with his mother and brother, Timothy Jr., to Bergenfield, New Jersey,...

    ,
    The Hanging Garden
    The Hanging Garden
    The Hanging Garden is a 1997 British/Canadian movie written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald that is about the duality of life and death and the way seemingly very different choices in life can lead to similar outcomes....

  • Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...

    , The Sweet Hereafter
    The Sweet Hereafter (film)
    The Sweet Hereafter is a 1997 Canadian film written and directed by Atom Egoyan. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russell Banks.-Plot:...

  • André Forcier
    André Forcier
    André Forcier is a Quebec film director and screenwriter. His work has been linked to Latin American magic realism by its use of fantasy but is firmly rooted in Quebec's reality....

    , La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge
  • Gabriel Pelletier, Yves Pelletier, Andrée Pelletier and Ann Burke, Karmina
  • Lynne Stopkewich
    Lynne Stopkewich
    Lynne Stopkewich is a Canadian film director, particularly notable as the director of the film Kissed .-History:In 1987, Stopkewich obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in film studies from Concordia University, followed in 1996 by a Master of Fine Arts Degree in film studies from the...

     and Angus Fraser, Kissed
    Kissed
    Kissed is a 1996 Canadian film, directed and co-written by Lynne Stopkewich, based on Barbara Gowdy's short story "We So Seldom Look On Love"...


19th Genie Awards
19th Genie Awards
-Best Motion Picture:*The Red Violin, Niv Fichman, producer*Last Night, Daniel Iron and Niv Fichman, producers*Regeneration, Allan Scott and Peter Simpson, producers*Rupert's Land, Bill Thumm and Scott Kennedy, producers...

  • François Girard
    François Girard
    François Girard is a French-Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Born in Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit...

     and Don McKellar
    Don McKellar
    -Personal life:McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College...

    , The Red Violin
    The Red Violin
    The Red Violin is a 1998 Canadian drama film directed by François Girard. It spans three centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a mysterious violin and its many owners...

  • Don McKellar
    Don McKellar
    -Personal life:McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College...

    ,
    Last Night
  • André Morency and Robert Lepage
    Robert Lepage
    Robert Lepage, is a playwright, actor, film director, and stage director from Québec City, Québec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.- Life and work :...

    ,
    Nô (film)
    Nô is a 1998 film by director Robert Lepage. It was based on one segment in Lepage's play Seven Streams of the River Ota.The title is a pun which reflects the film's dramatic structure, linking the 1980 Quebec referendum to Japanese Nō theatre.-Plot:The film is set in 1970 at the height of the FLQ...

  • Allan Scott
    Allan Scott (Scottish screenwriter)
    Allan Scott, the alias of Allan Shiach, is a Scottish screenwriter and producer, nominated for BAFTA's Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film and a Genie Award for his 1997 film Regeneration...

    ,
    Regeneration
    Regeneration (1997 film)
    Regeneration is a 1997 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Pat Barker. The film is directed by Gillies MacKinnon. It was released as Behind the Lines in the USA in 1998.-Plot:...

  • Sooni Taraporevala
    Sooni Taraporevala
    Sooni Taraporevala is an internationally acclaimed screenwriter and photographer, currently based in India. She is best known as the screenwriter of Mississippi Masala, The Namesake and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay , all directed by Mira Nair.She directed her first feature film, based on a...

    ,
    Such a Long Journey

Original

  • Louis Bélanger
    Louis Bélanger
    Louis Bélanger is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has a degree in Communications from UQAM. He is a close friend and collaborator of filmmaker Denis Chouinard; both men created several short films together before branching off into their own careers with feature films...

    ,
    Post Mortem
  • Bruce McCulloch
    Bruce McCulloch
    Bruce Ian McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, comedian, and film director. McCulloch is best known for his work as a member of The Kids in the Hall, a popular Canadian comedy troupe, and as a writer for Saturday Night Live. McCulloch has also appeared on series such as Twitch City and Gilmore...

    ,
    Dog Park
    Dog Park (film)
    Dog Park is a 1998 American/Canadian romantic comedy film written and directed by Bruce McCulloch.-Plot:Andy, is a writer for newspaper classifieds who has been bouncing from relationship to relationship since eighth grade. Throughout the film, he loses custody of his dog when his girlfriend,...

  • Jeremy Podeswa
    Jeremy Podeswa
    Jeremy Podeswa is a Canadian/American film and television director. He is best known for directing the films The Five Senses and Fugitive Pieces . He has also worked as Director on the television shows Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, The Tudors, Queer as Folk, and the HBO World War II miniseries The...

    ,
    The Five Senses
  • Léa Pool
    Léa Pool
    Léa Pool is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who has also taught film at UQAM. She is openly lesbian. Her 1986 film Anne Trister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1999 film Emporte-moi was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Special...

    ,
    Emporte-moi
    Emporte-moi
    Emporte-Moi is a 1999 French-Canadian film by director Léa Pool and starring Karine Vanasse. It tells the story of Hanna, a girl struggling with her sexuality and the depression of both her parents as she goes through puberty in Quebec in 1963...

  • Monique Proulx
    Monique Proulx
    Monique Proulx is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.-Works:*Sans cœur et sans reproche, *Le sexe des étoiles **The Sex of the Stars...

    ,
    Le Grand serpent du monde

Adapted

  • Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...

    ,
    Felicia's Journey
    Felicia's Journey
    Felicia's Journey is a 1999 film starring Elaine Cassidy and Bob Hoskins, based on a prize winning 1994 novel by William Trevor. It was directed by Atom Egoyan...

  • François Bouvier and Marc Robitaille, Histoires d'hiver
  • Jean-Philippe Duval and Alexis Martin, Matroni et moi
  • Kim Hogan, Heart of the Sun
  • Wayne Johnston, The Divine Ryans
    The Divine Ryans
    The Divine Ryans is a 1999 film directed by Stephen Reynolds, written by Wayne Johnston, starring Robert Joy and Pete Postlethwaite. The film is based around the Ryan family who run a funeral parlour in St John's, Newfoundland. The movie was filmed in St...

  • Monique Proulx
    Monique Proulx
    Monique Proulx is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.-Works:*Sans cœur et sans reproche, *Le sexe des étoiles **The Sex of the Stars...

     and Jean Beaudin
    Jean Beaudin
    Jean Beaudin is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 20 films since 1969. His film J.A. Martin Photographer, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, where Monique Mercure won the award for Best Actress. The film also won best Film, he won best Director, and Mercure...

    ,
    Souvenirs intimes

21st Genie Awards
21st Genie Awards
The 21st Genie Awards were held in 2001 to honour films released in 2000. The ceremony was hosted by Brian Linehan.-Best Motion Picture:*Maelström, Roger Frappier and Luc Vandal, producers...

  • Denis Villeneuve
    Denis Villeneuve
    Denis Villeneuve is a Canadian film director and writer. In his early career he won Radio-Canada's youth film competition "La Course Europe-Asie" in 1990-91. He is a three-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Director, for Maelström in 2001, Polytechnique in 2010 and Incendies in 2011...

    ,
    Maelström
    Maelström (film)
    Maelström is a 2000 Canadian film by Québécois writer-director Denis Villeneuve. It stars Marie-Josée Croze as a depressed, alcoholic woman who becomes romantically involved with the son of a man she believes to have killed in a hit and run accident....

  • Denys Arcand
    Denys Arcand
    Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions...

     and J. Jacob Potashnik, Stardom
    Stardom
    Stardom is a 2000 Canadian film written by J.Jacob Potashnik & Denys Arcand and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Jessica Paré and Dan Aykroyd. It tells the story of a young girl who tries to cope with her rise to stardom after being discovered by a fashion agency...

  • Frank Borg, My Father's Angel
  • Michel Marc Bouchard
    Michel Marc Bouchard
    Michel Marc Bouchard is a gay Canadian playwright.Born in Saint-Cœur-de-Marie, Quebec, he studied theatre at the University of Ottawa. Bouchard made his professional playwriting debut in 1983 and since then has written some 25 plays...

     and Gilles Desjardins, Les Muses orphelines
  • Clément Virgo
    Clement Virgo
    Clément Virgo is a Canadian filmmaker of international acclaim. His latest feature, the boxing drama Poor Boy's Game, stars Danny Glover and Rossif Sutherland...

    , Love Come Down

22nd Genie Awards
22nd Genie Awards
The 22nd Genie Awards were held in 2002 to honour films released in 2001. The ceremony was hosted by Brian Linehan.-Best Motion Picture:*Atanarjuat, Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk, Germaine Wong and Paul Apak Angilirq, producers...

  • Paul Apak Angilirq, Atanarjuat
    Atanarjuat
    Atanarjuat is a 2001 Canadian film directed by Zacharias Kunuk. It was the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in Inuktitut...

  • Renny Bartlett, Eisenstein
    Eisenstein (film)
    Eisenstein is a 2000 film about Sergei Eisenstein, starring Simon McBurney, Raymond Coulthard and Jacqueline McKenzie....

  • Catherine Martin, Mariages
  • Judith Thompson
    Judith Thompson
    Judith Clare Thompson, OC is a Canadian playwright who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail once declared that "...in this country, a playwright as good as Judith Thompson is a miracle." She has twice been awarded the Governor General's Award for drama, and is the...

    ,
    Lost and Delirious
    Lost and Delirious
    Lost and Delirious is a 2001 Canadian drama film directed by Léa Pool and loosely based on the novel The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan. Lost and Delirious is filmed from the perspective of Mary , who observes the changing love between her two teenage friends, Pauline and Victoria...

  • André Turpin, Un crabe dans la tête

Original

  • Deepa Mehta
    Deepa Mehta
    Deepa Mehta, LLD is a Genie Award-winning Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire , Earth , and Water , among which Earth was submitted by Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...

    ,
    Bollywood/Hollywood
    Bollywood/Hollywood
    Bollywood/Hollywood is a 2002 film by Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta. It is lighthearted, humorous, and family-oriented in nature, as opposed to Mehta's other films , which feature very serious themes and focus on social issues.The film pokes fun at traditional Indian stereotypes, as well as at...

  • Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...

    , Ararat
    Ararat (film)
    Ararat is a 2002 film directed, written, and co-produced by Atom Egoyan based loosely on the Siege of Van during the Armenian Genocide, an event that is disputed by the government of Turkey. In addition to exploring the human impact of that specific historical event, the film also examines the...

  • Paul Gross
    Paul Gross
    Paul Michael Gross is a Canadian actor, producer, director, singer and writer born in Calgary, Alberta. He is known for his lead role as Constable Benton Fraser in the television series Due South as well as his 2008 war film Passchendaele, which he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in...

     and John Krizanc
    John Krizanc
    John Krizanc is a Canadian playwright who established an international reputation with his non-linear work, Tamara. Its Toronto production won him a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1982.-Writing career:...

    , Men with Brooms
    Men with Brooms
    Men with Brooms is a 2002 Canadian romantic comedy film, starring and directed by Paul Gross. Centred on the sport of curling, the offbeat comedy tells the story of a reunited curling team from a small Canadian town as they work through their respective life issues and struggle to win the...

  • Robert Morin
    Robert Morin
    Robert Morin is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer.-Biography:Robert Morin is known for his very personal, dark, and pessimistic "interior views" of family, crime, law enforcement, and human suffering...

    , Le Nèg'
  • Jean-Phillipe Pearson, Patrice Robitaille
    Patrice Robitaille
    Patrice Robitaille is a Canadian actor and writer. He was nominated for two awards and won two awards for Québec-Montréal .-Filmography:-Television:* Watatatow * 4 et demi... * Fortier...

     and Ricardo Trogi
    Ricardo Trogi
    Ricardo Trogi is a French Canadian filmmaker, director and actor.-Career:Trogi’s first two films, Québec-Montréal, about seven twenty-something travellers driving between the two cities, and Horloge Biologique, a look at three men and their decisions about having children, were both critical and...

    , Québec-Montréal

Adapted

  • Sharon Riis, Savage Messiah
  • Dominique Demers, La Mystérieuse mademoiselle C.
  • Patrick McGrath, Spider
    Spider (film)
    Spider is a 2002 Canadian/British drama film produced and directed by David Cronenberg and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McGrath, who also wrote the screenplay....

  • Edward Riche
    Edward Riche
    Edward Riche is a Canadian writer. He currently lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.-Background:Riche was born on October 24, 1961 in Botwood, Newfoundland, Canada. For three years he attended Memorial University, and then transferred to Concordia University in Montreal to study film. He...

    , Rare Birds
    Rare Birds
    Rare Birds is a 2001 Canadian comedy/drama film. It was directed by Sturla Gunnarsson and written by Edward Riche based on his novel. This movie features spectacular scenery from Cape Spear, Newfoundland, Canada. It also features music by the The Pogues and characteristic Canadian Maritime...

  • Judith Thompson
    Judith Thompson
    Judith Clare Thompson, OC is a Canadian playwright who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail once declared that "...in this country, a playwright as good as Judith Thompson is a miracle." She has twice been awarded the Governor General's Award for drama, and is the...

    , Perfect Pie
    Perfect Pie
    Perfect Pie is a play written by Judith Thompson, and first staged at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre in 2000, with Judith Thompson also directing....


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  • Denys Arcand
    Denys Arcand
    Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions...

    , Les Invasions barbares
    Les Invasions barbares
    The Barbarian Invasions is a 2003 French Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Denys Arcand. It is the sequel to Arcand's earlier film The Decline of the American Empire and is followed by Days of Darkness. The film was produced by companies from both Canada and France, including Telefilm Canada,...

  • Louis Bélanger
    Louis Bélanger
    Louis Bélanger is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has a degree in Communications from UQAM. He is a close friend and collaborator of filmmaker Denis Chouinard; both men created several short films together before branching off into their own careers with feature films...

    ,
    Gaz Bar Blues
  • Sébastien Rose, Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause
  • Ken Scott, Seducing Doctor Lewis
    Seducing Doctor Lewis
    La grande séduction is a 2003 Québécois comedy film and the first film directed by Jean-François Pouliot. The script was written by Ken Scott. It won the "Audience Award" at 2004 Sundance Film Festival...

  • Peter Wellington
    Peter Wellington (director)
    Peter Wellington is a Canadian film and television director, best known for the films Joe's So Mean to Josephine, for which he won the Claude Jutra Award in 1996, and Luck....

    ,
    Luck

Adapted

  • Robert Lepage
    Robert Lepage
    Robert Lepage, is a playwright, actor, film director, and stage director from Québec City, Québec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.- Life and work :...

    ,
    La Face cachée de la lune
  • Maurice Chauvet, Owning Mahowny
    Owning Mahowny
    Owning Mahowny is a 2003 movie about gambling addiction with a cast that includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin and John Hurt.-Plot:...

  • Daniel MacIvor
    Daniel MacIvor
    Daniel MacIvor is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director and film director. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and then at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario....

    , Marion Bridge
  • Charles Martin Smith
    Charles Martin Smith
    Charles Martin Smith is an American film actor, writer, and director.-Early life:Smith was born in Van Nuys, California. His father, Frank Smith, was a film cartoonist and animator, while his uncle Paul J. Smith was an animator as well as a director for the Walter Lantz Studios...

    , The Snow Walker
    The Snow Walker
    The Snow Walker is a 2003 Canadian film based on the short story "Walk Well, My Brother" by Farley Mowat. It was written and directed by Charles Martin Smith and starred Barry Pepper, James Cromwell, and Annabella Piugattuk....

  • Esta Spalding
    Esta Spalding
    Esta Alice Spalding is a Canadian author, screenwriter and poet who won the Pat Lowther Award in 2000 for Lost August. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Phillip Spalding and Linda Spalding, she grew up in Hawaii and currently resides in Guelph, Ontario....

    , Falling Angels

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  • Francis Leclerc
    Francis Leclerc
    Francis Leclerc is a Canadian film and television director, screenwriter and film editor.- Recognition :* 2005 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction - Looking for Alexander - Won...

     and Marcel Beaulieu, Mémoires affectives
    Mémoires affectives
    Mémoires affectives is a French language Canadian drama film. It was directed and written by Francis Leclerc. Marcel Beaulieu also wrote the script...

  • Denise Filiatrault
    Denise Filiatrault
    Denise Filiatrault, OC, OQ is a Canadian actress and director.In 1982, she won a "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role" Genie Award for her performance in Les Plouffe...

    ,
    Ma vie en cinémascope
    Ma vie en cinémascope
    Ma vie en cinémascope is a Quebec, Canada movie released in 2004. This biographical drama depicted the career of Quebec singer Alys Robi, as portrayed by Pascale Bussières...

  • Federico Hidalgo
    Federico Hidalgo
    Federico Hidalgo is a filmmaker and film professor in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has made two feature films to date A Silent Love , and Imitation , both released by Atopia....

     and Paulina Robles,
    A Silent Love
    A Silent Love
    A Silent Love is a 2004 film written and directed by Federico Hidalgo and produced by Atopia.Through an Internet service, a Montreal professor arranges for himself a Mexican bride. But both husband and wife, even with their good intentions, are in for a bumpy ride toward marital...

  • Don McKellar
    Don McKellar
    -Personal life:McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College...

     and Michael Goldbach,
    Childstar
    Childstar
    Childstar is a 2004 comedy film directed and written by Don McKellar. It was screened at several film festivals between September 2004 and July 2005.-Plot:...

  • David "Sudz" Sutherland
    Sudz Sutherland
    David "Sudz" Sutherland is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His credits include the films Doomstown, Love, Sex and Eating the Bones and Guns, as well as episodes of Da Kink in My Hair, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Wild Roses and Jozi-H...

    ,
    Love, Sex and Eating the Bones
    Love, Sex and Eating the Bones
    Love, Sex and Eating the Bones is a 2003 Canadian romantic comedy film directed and written by Sudz Sutherland featuring a mostly African American leading cast...


Adapted

  • Luc Dionne
    Luc Dionne
    Luc Dionne is an award winning screenwriter and director born in Quebec in 1960. Luc's work is largely directed towards the French speaking market. However, many within the industry accredit Dionne's successful Omerta series as being an inspiration for David Chase's hit series The...

     and Sylvain Guy,
    Monica la mitraille
  • Jerry Ciccoritti
    Jerry Ciccoritti
    Jerry Ciccoritti is a Canadian film, television and theatre director. His ability to work in a number of genres and for many mediums has made him one of the most successful directors in the country.- Biography :...

    , Blood
  • Joël Champetier
    Joël Champetier
    Joël Champetier is a French-Canadian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:...

     and Daniel Roby
    Daniel Roby
    Daniel Roby is a Canadian film director and cinematographer. An alumnus of the film programs at Concordia University and the University of Southern California, he worked as a camera operator and cinematographer on numerous film and television projects before releasing his own directorial debut, La...

    , La Peau blanche,
  • Todd Klinck
    Todd Klinck
    Todd Klinck is a Canadian writer, nightclub owner and pornography producer.Klinck moved to Toronto at age 18 to study theatre at York University, but dropped out to focus on his career...

    , Jaie Laplante and John Palmer
    John Palmer (director)
    John Palmer is a Canadian theatre and film director and playwright.Cofounder of several Toronto theatre companies in the 1970s, Palmer is primarily a theatre director, whose credits include the original production of Brad Fraser's Wolfboy which marked the first acting role for Keanu Reeves.He has...

    , Sugar
  • Jacob Tierney
    Jacob Tierney
    Jacob Daniel Tierney is a Canadian actor, film director and screenwriter.Tierney was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of veteran producer Kevin Tierney...

    , Twist
    Twist (film)
    Twist is a 2003 Canadian drama film and a queer retelling of Charles Dickens' classic, Oliver Twist.-Plot:The plot is updated to the present day, and moved out of the London poor house onto the streets of Toronto. In addition, the tale is told not from Oliver's point of view, but rather that of Dodge...


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  • Jean-Marc Vallée
    Jean-Marc Vallée
    Jean-Marc Vallée is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. He is best known for the film C.R.A.Z.Y. which is one of the most successful films in Quebec history, both financially and critically...

     and François Boulay, C.R.A.Z.Y.
    C.R.A.Z.Y.
    C.R.A.Z.Y. is a 2005 French-language Canadian film from Quebec. The film was directed and co-written by Jean-Marc Vallée. It tells the story of Zac, a young gay man dealing with homophobia and heterosexism while growing up with four brothers and a conservative father in 1960s and 1970s...

  • Louise Archambault, Familia
    Familia (film)
    Familia is a 2005 multi-award–winning French language Canadian drama film. It was directed and written by Louise Archambault.- Plot :The story revolves around two main characters: Michèle , a free-spirited aerobics instructor with a penchant for gambling, and Janine , a suburban housewife and home...

  • Michael Dowse
    Michael Dowse
    Michael Dowse is a Canadian film director.Born and raised in London, Ontario, he was trained as a film editor. His first full-length movie, FUBAR was shot on a digital camera with a tiny budget, but was selected by the Sundance Film Festival and screened on the prestigious midnight slot, which had...

    ,
    It's All Gone Pete Tong
    It's All Gone Pete Tong
    -CD 1:#"Pacific State" - 808 State #"Cloud Watch" - Lol Hammond#"Dry Pool Suicide" - Graham Massey#"Moonlight Sonata" - Graham Massey#"Baby Piano" - Lol Hammond#"Ku Da Ta" - Pete Tong...

  • Deepa Mehta
    Deepa Mehta
    Deepa Mehta, LLD is a Genie Award-winning Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire , Earth , and Water , among which Earth was submitted by Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...

    ,
    Water
  • Luc Picard
    Luc Picard
    Luc Picard is a French Canadian actor and comedian. He was born on September 24, 1961 in Lachine, Quebec, Canada. He has played numerous characters in diverse roles....

    ,
    L'Audition

Adapted

  • Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...

    ,
    Where the Truth Lies
    Where the Truth Lies
    Where the Truth Lies is a 2005 Canadian/British drama film, written and directed by Atom Egoyan. It stars Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, and Alison Lohman, and is based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Rupert Holmes.-Plot:...

  • Diane Cailhier, Le Survenant
  • David Christensen, Six Figures
  • Luc Dionne
    Luc Dionne
    Luc Dionne is an award winning screenwriter and director born in Quebec in 1960. Luc's work is largely directed towards the French speaking market. However, many within the industry accredit Dionne's successful Omerta series as being an inspiration for David Chase's hit series The...

    , Aurore
    Aurore (film)
    Aurore is a 2005 Quebec biographical drama movie that was directed by Luc Dionne and produced by Denise Robert and Daniel Louis. The movie is a remake of Jean-Yves Bigras's 1952 movie La petite Aurore: l'enfant martyre. Aurore is a 2005 Quebec biographical drama movie that was directed by Luc...

  • Nathalie Petrowski, Maman Last Call

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  • Philippe Falardeau
    Philippe Falardeau
    Philippe Falardeau is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.His first feature film, La Moitié gauche du frigo won "Best Canadian First Feature" at the Toronto International Film Festival and a Best Screenplay nomination at the Quebec-based Jutra Awards...

    , Congorama
    Congorama
    Congorama is a Canadian film directed by Philippe Falardeau, released in 2006.- Synopsis :Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the...

  • Martin Girard, Ghyslaine Côté, Le secret de ma mère
  • Stéphane Lapointe, La Vie secrète des gens heureux
    La Vie secrète des gens heureux
    -Plot:Thomas Dufresne is the black sheep of his bourgeois family. One day, he meets a free-spirited waitress named Audrey who changes his life...

  • Ken Scott, Guide de la Petite Vengeance
    Guide de la Petite Vengeance
    Guide de la petite vengeance is a Genie nominated French language Canadian film released in 2006.- Plot :Bernard, an accountant in a jewelry store, plots revenge against his abusive employer, Monsieur Vendôme, with the help of his friend Robert.- Reaction :Guide de la Petite Vengeance earned four...

  • Ken Scott, Maurice Richard

Adapted

  • Robert Favreau
    Robert Favreau
    Robert Favreau is a French Canadian film director and film editor.His film Les muses orphelines earned him Genie Award and Jutra Award nominations for Best Director...

    , Gil Courtemanche
    Gil Courtemanche
    Gil Courtemanche was a Canadian progressive journalist and novelist in third-world and international politics. He wrote for the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir.Courtemanche was born in Montreal, Quebec...

    ,
    Un dimanche à Kigali
  • Mike Clattenburg
    Mike Clattenburg
    Mike Clattenburg is a Canadian TV and film director best known as creator/director of the TV comedy series Trailer Park Boys , and This Hour Has 22 Minutes...

    , Robb Wells
    Robb Wells
    Robb Wells is a Canadian actor and screenwriter who portrayed Ricky on Trailer Park Boys.-Early life:Wells was born in Moncton, New Brunswick and moved to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia when he was eight years old...

    , Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
  • François Létourneau
    François Letourneau
    François Letourneau is a Canadian slalom canoer who competed in the mid 1990s. He finished eighth in the C-2 event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.-References:*...

    , Cheech
    Cheech (film)
    Cheech is a 2006 Canadian comedy-drama film based on a stage play. It is directed by Patrice Sauvé and written by François Létourneau with assistance from Linus Scheithauer- Plot :...


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  • Steve Knight, Eastern Promises
  • Denys Arcand
    Denys Arcand
    Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions...

    ,
    L'Âge des ténèbres
    Days of Darkness
    Days of Darkness is a compilation double CD released by Spitfire Records. The first CD is composed of tracks from Testament's Demonic and The Gathering. The second CD is the entire First Strike Still Deadly album....

  • Douglas Coupland
    Douglas Coupland
    Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and...

    ,
    Everything's Gone Green
    Everything's Gone Green (film)
    Everything's Gone Green is a 2006 Canadian comedy film directed by Paul Fox and written by Douglas Coupland. It was produced by Radke Films and True West Films...

  • Pierre Lamothe, Claude Lalonde, Les 3 P'tits Cochons
    Les 3 p'tits cochons
    Les 3 p'tits cochons is a 2007 Quebec French-language comedy film. The directorial debut of comedian and actor Patrick Huard, the film won the Golden Reel Award at the 28th Genie Awards and the Billet d'or at the Jutra Awards as top-grossing film of 2007 in Quebec.-Plot summary:Two brothers ...

  • Marc-André Lavoie
    Marc-André Lavoie
    Marc-André Lavoie is a Canadian director and film producer. He is currently nominated for a Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay for Bluff with Simon Olivier Fecteau and David Gauthier.- Recognition :...

    , Simon Olivier Fecteau
    Simon Olivier Fecteau
    Simon Olivier Fecteau is a Canadian director, actor, producer and screenwriter. He is currently nominated for a Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay for Bluff with Marc-André Lavoie and David Gauthier.- Recognition :...

    , David Gauthier,
    Bluff
    Bluff (film)
    Bluff is a 2007 Canadian comedy film. It was directed, written and produced by Simon Olivier Fecteau and Marc-André Lavoie.- Plot :* A building inspector finds a shocking discovery in the basement to a building that is about to be destroyed...


Adapted

  • Sarah Polley
    Sarah Polley
    Sarah Polley is a Canadian actress, singer, film director, and screenwriter. Polley first attained notice in her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea...

    ,
    Away From Her
    Away From Her
    Away from Her is a 2006 Canadian film which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival...

  • Michael Donovan, Shake Hands With the Devil
  • Maureen Medved
    Maureen Medved
    Maureen Medved is a Canadian writer and playwright. She is also an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. She has been published in literary journals and magazines and has had her plays produced in Vancouver, Waterloo and Toronto...

    , The Tracey Fragments
    The Tracey Fragments (film)
    The Tracey Fragments is a 2007 drama film directed by Canadian Bruce McDonald and written by Maureen Medved, based on her novel of the same name. It stars Ellen Page in the title role, is produced by Sarah Timmins and executive produced by Paul Barkin....


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  • Bernard Émond
    Bernard Émond
    Bernard Émond is a French-language Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his spiritual films and documentaries on the human condition.- Director :* 1992 : Ceux qui ont le pas léger meurent sans laisser de traces...

    , Ce qu'il faut pour vivre
  • Randall Cole, Real Time
    Real Time (film)
    Real Time is a 2008 comedy drama which premiered on 18 January 2008 at the Slamdance Film Festival.-Synopsis:The film is about a hit man who gives a compulsive gambler one hour to live. The movie takes place in real time and its ultimate subject is what we do with the time we have in this world...

  • Travis McDonald, Normal
  • Deepa Mehta
    Deepa Mehta
    Deepa Mehta, LLD is a Genie Award-winning Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire , Earth , and Water , among which Earth was submitted by Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...

    ,
    Heaven on Earth
    Heaven on Earth (film)
    Heaven on Earth a.k.a Videsh is a 2008 Canadian film directed and written by Deepa Mehta. Preity Zinta plays the leading role of Chand, a young Indian Punjabi woman who finds herself in an abusive arranged marriage with an Indo-Canadian man, played by theatre actor Vansh Bhardwaj...

  • Guillaume Vigneault
    Guillaume Vigneault
    Guillaume Vigneault, born on August 5, 1970, in Montreal, Canada, is a novelist, son of Gilles Vigneault.-Studies and works:After receiving a bachelor's degree in literary studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal and beginning a masters degree in the same subject, he decided to be a novelist,...

    ,
    Tout est parfait
    Tout est parfait
    Tout est parfait is a French Canadian film directed by Yves-Christian Fournier. It tells the story of a young man trying to cope with the simultaneous suicide of his four friends....


Adapted

  • Marie-Sissi Labrèche and Lyne Charlebois, Borderline
  • Richie Mehta
    Richie Mehta
    Richie Mehta is a Canadian film director. His first feature film, Amal, was released in 2008, and has been nominated for Best Motion Picture and Best Director at the 29th Genie Awards....

     and Shaun Mehta
    Shaun Mehta
    Shaun Mehta is a Canadian writer. He has published one novel and one short story collection to date, and also collaborated with his brother, film director Richie Mehta, on the screenplay for Richie's debut film Amal, which was based on one of Shaun's short stories.Shaun and Richie Mehta were...

    , Amal
    Amal (film)
    Amal , 2007, is a Canadian drama film directed and written by Richie Mehta. Set in modern-day New Delhi, India, it tells the story of a poor autorickshaw driver, Amal Kumar....

  • Jeremy Podeswa
    Jeremy Podeswa
    Jeremy Podeswa is a Canadian/American film and television director. He is best known for directing the films The Five Senses and Fugitive Pieces . He has also worked as Director on the television shows Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, The Tudors, Queer as Folk, and the HBO World War II miniseries The...

    , Fugitive Pieces
    Fugitive Pieces (film)
    Fugitive Pieces is a 2007 drama film directed by Jeremy Podeswa, who also adapted the film from the award-winning novel of the same name written by Anne Michaels. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, who is orphaned in Poland during World War II and is saved by a Greek archeologist...


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  • Jacques Davidts, Polytechnique
    Polytechnique (film)
    Polytechnique is a 2009 Canadian film from Quebec written by Jacques Davidts and Denis Villeneuve and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Set in Montreal, Quebec and based on the École Polytechnique massacre , the film documents the events of December 6, 1989 through the eyes of two students who witness...

  • David Bezmozgis
    David Bezmozgis
    David Bezmozgis is a Canadian writer and filmmaker.Born in Riga, Latvia, he came to Canada with his family when he was six. He graduated with a B.A. in English literature from McGill University. Bezmozgis received an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television....

    ,
    Victoria Day
    Victoria Day (film)
    Victoria Day is a film directed and written by David Bezmozgis. It is being produced by Markham Street Films. The film stars Mark Rendall in the lead role, as well as Holly Deveaux, Sergiy Kotelenets, Nataliya Alyexeyenko, John Mavrogiannis, and Scott Beaudin....

  • Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...

    ,
    Adoration
    Adoration (film)
    Adoration is a 2008 Canadian drama film directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Rachel Blanchard, Scott Speedman and Devon Bostick. It is Egoyan's first feature film since Where The Truth Lies....

  • Émile Gaudreault
    Émile Gaudreault
    Émile Gaudreault is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, whose credits include the films Louis 19, le roi des ondes, Nuit de noces, Mambo Italiano, Surviving My Mother and De père en flic....

     and Ian Lauzon,
    De père en flic
  • Charles Officer
    Charles Officer
    Charles Officer is a Jamaican-Canadian writer, actor, director and former professional hockey player in the United States.-Director:Officer’s directorial debut, When Morning Comes, premiered at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival...

     and Ingrid Veninger
    Ingrid Veninger
    Ingrid Veninger is a Canadian actress and director.Her start in show business was in an advertisement for Bell Canada with Megan Follows at age 11...

    ,
    Nurse.Fighter.Boy
    Nurse.Fighter.Boy
    Nurse.Fighter.Boy is a Canadian drama film, originally released in 2008.The film stars Karen LeBlanc as Jude, a widowed single mother undergoing treatment for sickle cell disease. While working as a night-shift nurse to support her son Ciel Nurse.Fighter.Boy is a Canadian drama film, originally...


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  • Kari Skogland
    Kari Skogland
    Kari Skogland is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and producer.-Career:Skogland started directing award-winning television commercials and music videos. She moved on to television shows with 1996's Traders...

    ,
    Fifty Dead Men Walking
    Fifty Dead Men Walking
    Fifty Dead Men Walking is a 2008 English-language crime thriller film written and directed by Kari Skogland. It is a loose adaptation of Martin McGartland's 1997 autobiography of the same name...

  • Tony Burgess
    Tony Burgess
    Tony Burgess is the author of several books including the novel Pontypool Changes Everything. Other works include People Live Still in Cashtown Corners, Ravenna Gets, The Hellmouths of Bewdley, and Caesarea...

    , Pontypool
    Pontypool (film)
    Pontypool is a 2009 Canadian horror film directed by Bruce McDonald and adapted by Tony Burgess from Burgess' novel Pontypool Changes Everything.- Plot :...

  • Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Susan Avingaq and Madeline Ivalu
    Madeline Ivalu
    Madeline Ivalu is a Canadian Inuk filmmaker and actor. One of the cofounders of Arnait Video Productions, a women's video and filmmaking collective in Nunavut, she co-directed, co-wrote and starred in Arnait's first feature film production, Before Tomorrow....

    , Before Tomorrow
    Before Tomorrow
    Before Tomorrow is a Canadian drama film, released in 2008. Directed by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, the film is an adaptation of the novel For Morgendaggen by Danish writer Jørn Riel...


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  • Jacob Tierney
    Jacob Tierney
    Jacob Daniel Tierney is a Canadian actor, film director and screenwriter.Tierney was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of veteran producer Kevin Tierney...

    , The Trotsky
    The Trotsky
    The Trotsky is a 2009 Canadian comedy film directed by Jacob Tierney.-Plot:Montreal West high school student Leon Bronstein believes that he is the reborn incarnation of Marxist/Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky. Shortly after he starts to work in his family's clothing factory, he attempts to unionize...

  • Louis Bélanger
    Louis Bélanger
    Louis Bélanger is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has a degree in Communications from UQAM. He is a close friend and collaborator of filmmaker Denis Chouinard; both men created several short films together before branching off into their own careers with feature films...

     and Alexis Martin,
    Route 132
  • Claude Lalonde, 10½
  • Adriana Maggs, Grown Up Movie Star
    Grown Up Movie Star
    Grown Up Movie Star is a 2010 Canadian drama film written, directed and co-produced by Adriana Maggs. Shawn Doyle, Jill Knox Gosse and Paul Pope are the other co-producers. The film was produced by Pope Productions and distributed in Canada by Mongrel Media...

  • Peter Stebbings
    Peter Stebbings
    Peter Stebbings is a Canadian veteran actor who started practicing his trade at the Vancouver Youth Theater when he was just 12 years old. He worked at various odd jobs growing up, including bus boy and bike courier, before making the serious move to acting...

    ,
    Defendor
    Defendor
    Defendor is a 2009 Canadian superhero comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Stebbings, and starring Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings, Elias Koteas and Sandra Oh. The story tells of a mentally ill man who adopts the persona of a superhero named Defendor on a quest to find his arch enemy,...


Adapted

  • Denis Villeneuve
    Denis Villeneuve
    Denis Villeneuve is a Canadian film director and writer. In his early career he won Radio-Canada's youth film competition "La Course Europe-Asie" in 1990-91. He is a three-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Director, for Maelström in 2001, Polytechnique in 2010 and Incendies in 2011...

    ,
    Incendies
    Incendies
    Incendies is a 2010 Quebec film written and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play, Scorched, Incendies follows the journey of twin brother and sister as they attempt to unravel the mystery of their mother's life. The film premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals...

  • Michael Konyves
    Michael Konyves
    Michael Konyves is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. Best known for his Genie Award-nominated screenplay for the 2010 film Barney's Version, his past credits include the television films Solar Attack, Descent and Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles.-External links:...

    , Barney's Version
    Barney's Version (film)
    Barney's Version is a 2010 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Richard J. Lewis, based on the novel of the same name by Mordecai Richler...

  • Lee MacDougall, High Life
    High Life (film)
    High Life is a 2009 Canadian film based on the stage play by Lee MacDougall, written by Lee MacDougall and directed by Gary Yates. Starring Timothy Olyphant, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Joe Anderson and Rossif Sutherland, High Life is a comedic heist movie from the flip-side of the 80’s consumer dream.-...

  • Vic Sarin
    Vic Sarin
    Vic Sarin is an Indian-born Canadian/American film director, producer and screenwriter. His work as a cinematographer includes Partition, Margaret's Museum, Whale Music, Nowhere to Hide, Norman's Awesome Experience, and Riel. He also directed such projects as Partition, Left Behind, and Wind at My...

    , Dennis Foon
    Dennis Foon
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     and Catherine Spear, A Shine of Rainbows
    A Shine of Rainbows (film)
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