Patrick Demers

Patrick Demers is a film director from Montreal, born in 1969 in Ste-Eustache, Canada. He likes to work with actors to build his scripts, to add some improv while shooting his stories, and considers editing as being part of the cinematic writing process.

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Biography

At 22 ans, fresh out of film school, he travels around the world alone over 6 months with a handheld camera for La Course Destination Monde (Radio-Canada Television) and starts shooting.

After a few years working as a director in tv and advertisement, he gets back to his old flame in 1999 with the short film Décharge, which won best canadian short at Toronto International Film Festival.[1] In 2003 he writes and directs Dans un spoutnik, an animation music video which won prizes in the ADISQ Gala[2] and at the MuchMusic Video Awards[3] that year. Then Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe, a documentary that he co-directed and edited, wins Best Canadian Work at the Festival International du Film sur l'Art en 2004.[4]

Jaloux (aka Jealous or Suspicions) (2010) is his first feature film. The independent movie was produced by Productions Kinesis and was selected by the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival[5] and by the Toronto International Film Festival[6] while also opening the Canadian Front[7] at the Museum of Modern Art in 2011.

Filmography

Shorts

Animation

Documentary

Feature Film

Jaloux captured the media's attention[8] in part because of the way it was created: shot with a 22 pages script with no dialogues, in 16 days of improv, and by seeing the editing phase as a writing process.

Media

References

  1. ^ TIFF Canadian Film Encyclopedia
  2. ^ ADISQ Gala 2003
  3. ^ MMVA 2003 Winners
  4. ^ FIFA
  5. ^ KVIFF Archive
  6. ^ TIFF 2010 Schedule
  7. ^ Canadian Front
  8. ^ Twitchfilm

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