Marquise Lepage
Marquise Lepage (born September 6, 1959 in Chénéville, Quebec) is a Canadian film and television director. She is best known for her 1987 film Marie in the City (Marie s'en va-t-en ville),[1] for which she was a Genie Award nominee for Best Director at the 9th Genie Awards in 1988.[2] She was also a nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 14th Genie Awards in 1993 for Dans ton pays.
She was hired by the National Film Board as a documentary filmmaker in 1991.[3] One of her first major projects for the NFB was The Lost Garden, a documentary about female cinema pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché.[4]
Her other credits have included the documentary films Un soleil entre deux nuages,[5] Of Hopscotch and Little Girls,[6] Ma vie, c'est le théâtre and Martha of the North, the feature films La fête des rois[7] and Ce qu'il ne faut pas dire,[8] and episodes of the television documentary series Canada: A People's History.
References
- ↑ "Impressive debut". Vancouver Sun, October 22, 1987.
- ↑ "Night Zoo thriller sets Genie record; Lauzon film wins 14 nominations". Ottawa Citizen, February 17, 1988.
- ↑ "Film board hires 6". The Globe and Mail, May 31, 1991.
- ↑ "Documentary honors first female filmmaker". Kingston Whig-Standard, March 2, 1995.
- ↑ "Drop everything tonight to tune in: Un soleil entre deux nuages". Montreal Gazette, March 10, 1989.
- ↑ "Two film solitudes?: Producer pulls films from Genies in favour of new Jutras". Montreal Gazette, November 23, 1998.
- ↑ "Where are the new Claude Jutras?" The Globe and Mail, February 9, 1995.
- ↑ "Dark drama, refined comedy; Love is a four-letter word for protagonist who has been burned by the concept in the past". Montreal Gazette, May 29, 2015.