This week, SARTEC awarded the Jacques-Marcotte 2024 prize to Christine Doyon and Ariane Louis-Seize for the screenplay of the film Humanist vampire seeking consenting suicide.
All members of the Society of Radio, Television and Cinema Authors (SARTEC) were asked to vote for their favorite scenarios, thus electing five scenarios among the films released in 2023. The other finalist screenwriters of this 4e edition were Éric K. Boulianne and Francis Leclerc for The plunger, Pascal Plante for The red rooms, Monia Chokri for Simple like Sylvain and Sophie Dupuis for Solo.
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The two winners, Christine Doyon, screenwriter, and Ariane Louis-Seize, screenwriter and director, last October
The jury, made up of Chantal Cadieux, India Desjardins and Guillaume Vigneault, was won over by “a resolutely contemporary story, skilfully nuanced the codes of the genre, depicting with humor and sensitivity the initiatory story of a rebellious 78-year-old teenager and leaving the audience on a note of blood-red hope.”
Designed to reward excellence in the art of writing a screenplay for cinema, the prize honors the memory of screenwriter Jacques Marcotte, author or co-author of works such as Lounge bar, Hot water, cool water, In the moonlight, An invented story, The Wyoming Wind.