Director

Manon Briand

Briand is a filmmaker and writer whose first short film, Les sauf-conduits, won Best Canadian Short Film at TIFF. She also directed a segment of the anthology Cosmos. Her features include 2 secondes, La turbulence des fluides (Chaos and Desire, for which she won a Jutra Award), Liverpool and Tous Toqués !, all of which she wrote and directed.

Director

Léa Pool

A Member of the Order of Canada, Pool has earned three Genie Award nominations for Best Direction. Her films include Emporte Moi, Mouvements du désir, Lost and Delirious, La dernière fugue, Et au pire, on se mariera and Hôtel Silence, as well as the documentaries Pink Ribbons, Inc and Double peine. La passion d'Augustine won 15 awards, among them six Prix Iris, including Best Film and Best Director.

Director

Paul Gross

Gross starred in the hit TV series Due South and Slings & Arrows. He directed, wrote and starred in Men With Brooms, which won a Canadian Comedy Award, as well as Hyena Road and Passchendaele, which won a Genie for best film. Gross also starred in the mini-series Alias Grace and Caught, the series Tales of the City and Y: The Last Man, and the films Falling and The Middle Man.

Director

Christian Duguay

Duguay is a film director, cinematographer, and producer renowned for his work in action films and historical television miniseries. He directed numerous thrillers, including Scanners II: The New Order, Scanners III: The Takeover, Live Wire, The Art of War, and the mini-series Human Trafficking, starring Donald Sutherland.  He has also directed episodes of Anna Karenina and Medici and the feature films Un sac de billes (A Bag of Marbles), and Tempête (Ride Above).

Director

Pierre Greco

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Pier-Philippe Chevigny

Director

Alethea Arnaquq-Baril (Inuk)

Arnaquq-Baril is an award-winning filmmaker whose credits include the short Aviliaq: Entwined, which was part of the anthology The Embargo Project, which she also produced. She directed the award-winning feature documentary Angry Inuk, and produced the features The Grizzlies and Slash/Back, and the documentary Twice Colonized. She also co-created the hit CBC, APTN, and Netflix comedy North of North.

Director

Michael Dowse

Dowse’s credits include the cult classics Fubar, Fubar II and It’s All Gone Pete Tong, which won Best Canadian Feature at TIFF. His film Goon was a huge critical and box-office success and The F Word won the CSA for Best Adapted Screenplay. Dowse also directed episodes of Man Seeking Woman starring Jay Baruchel, Preacher, Future Man, Fubar Age of Computer, Me, and The Sticky. He also directed the feature films Stuber, Coffee and Kareem, and 8-Bit Christmas.

Director

Denys Arcand

A Companion of the Order of Canada and a Knight of the Ordre national du Québec, Arcand is an icon of Canadian and Québécois cinema, and his work has earned him four Academy Award nominations, including a win for Best Foreign Language Film for Les invasions barbares. Le déclin de l'empire américain became the highest grossing film in Quebec, and his iconic Jésus de Montréal won 12 Genie Awards. His other films include Réjeanne Padovani, La chute de l'empire américain, and Testament.

Director

Claude Jutra

A prolific filmmaker, Jutra directed more than 30 productions, including Kamouraska, Surfacing (based on Margaret Atwood’s novel by the same name), and By Design. Mon oncle Antoine currently ranks second on the Toronto International Film Festival’s list of the Top Ten Canadian Films of All Time.