Two Quebec feature films, Confessions by Luc Picard and New Quebec by Sarah Fortin, won awards this weekend at the Whistler Film Festival in British Columbia.
With New Quebec, Sarah Fortin won the Borsos award for best screenplay.
Starring Christine Beaulieu, Jean-Sébastien Courchesne, Jean-Luc Kanapé and Jean-Marc Dalpé, New Quebec is defined as “a dive into the heart of the Innu and Naskapi communities at the crossroads of genres”.
We follow a couple, Sophie and Mathieu, who, passing through Schefferville to settle the sale of a chalet, are detained in this town due to a police investigation and come into contact with the local Aboriginal reality.
Still in Whistler but a few days earlier, Mme Fortin also won the EDA award for the best feature film directed by a woman. This award is presented in collaboration with the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers and Carmine Pierre-Dufour also won one of the EDA awards for their short film Fanmi.
New Quebec is set to hit theaters in Quebec on February 4.
Furthermore, Confessions, the story of the hitman Gérald Gallant who murdered 28 people and committed fifteen attacks, mostly on bikers and hardened criminals, earned Luc Picard the Borsos award for best achievement.
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Luc Picard directs and plays the main character in Confessions.
Mr. Picard also defends the main role of the film, surrounded by actors David La Haye, Sandrine Bisson, Éveline Gélinas, Dany Boudreault and several others.
Sylvain Guy signs the screenplay, an adaptation of the book Gallant: confessions of a hitman journalists Éric Thibault and Félix Séguin from the investigation office of the Journal of Montreal.
This film is scheduled to premiere in Quebec on Friday March 11.