Anne Émond

Anne Émond

Catherine de Léan and Anne Emond (right) at the 2012 Genie Awards
Born 1982
Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec
Nationality Canadian
Occupation Film director and screenwriter

Anne Émond (born 1982) is a film director and screenwriter based in Montreal, Quebec. In 2005, she completed her undergraduate program in cinema at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Since then, she wrote and directed seven short films including L'Ordre des choses (2009), Naissances (2009), Sophie Lavoie (2009) and Plus rien ne vouloir (2011). L'Ordre des choses won the Coop Vidéo Price for Best Director in 2009.[1] Her debut feature film, Nuit #1, succeeded in cementing her personal style – a style characterized by long takes, theatrical monologues, and thematics such as youth loneliness and women sexuality. Émond won the Claude Jutra Award for the year's best feature film by a first-time director at the 2012 Genie Awards.[2]

Her second feature film, Our Loved Ones (Les êtres chers) follows the lives of David and his daughter Laurence. The story begins in 1978 in a small village on the Lower St. Lawrence, as the Leblanc family is rocked by the tragic death of Guy. Husband to Aline and father to five children, Guy is found dead in the basement of the family home. For many years, the real cause of his death is hidden from certain members of the family, his son David among them. In turn, David starts his own family with his wife Marie. He lovingly raises his children, Laurence and Frédéric, but deep down he still carries with him a kind of unhappiness. Our Loved Ones is a film of filial love, family secrets, redemption and what is handed down.[3] It was released at Locarno Film Festiva in 2015. The shooting of her third film, Nelly, will start in September 2015.[4]

Early life and education

Born in 1982, Anne Émond lives and work in Montréal since 2001. Since 2005, she wrote and directed 7 short-films. L'ordre des choses obtained the Coop Video Price for best director in 2009, at the rendez-vous du cinéma québécois. It was also nominated for the Jutra of the best film. Naissances is Canada's top ten in 2009 and was nominated at the Brooklyn International Film Festival. Émond's film Sophie Lavoie won the best short-film for the Festival du Nouveau Cinema as well the festival Vidéastes recherchés. Anne Émond is interested in human beings to their tormented emotions: love, death, lie, youth and solitude.

Work

Nuit #1

Anne Émond's first feature film is a relfexion on sex, intimacy and love. It is also a film on distress, youth and the vacuity of existence. It is a movie on commitment, individuality, and the anxiety to take part in a social project. It's a "one-night-stand" taking an unexpected turn: a human turn.

Filmography

Year Title Length NotesEnglish
2000Portes tourmentes
2005Qualité de l'air
2006Juillet
2008Frédérique au centre-with Monia Chokri
2009L'ordre des choses
2009La vie commence written by Émile Proulx Cloutier and directed by Anne Émond
2010Sophie Lavoie8 minutes
2011Nuit #1 91 minutes with Catherine de Léan
2015Our Loved Ones (Les êtres chers)

Awards and honors

References

  1. ↑ "Orde des choses(L')". Vithèque. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Quebec's Anne Émond wins debut director award". CBC News, February 22, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Our Loved Ones". Metafilms. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Locarno: Wide Acquires Sales Rights to ‘Our Loved Ones’". Variety, July 27, 2015.

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