Pascal Plante
Pascal Plante is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec,[1] whose debut feature film, Fake Tattoos (Les faux tatouages), premiered in 2017.[2]
He won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Canadian Screenplay at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017,[3] and the film's lead actress Rose-Marie Perreault received a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018,[4] and a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.[5]
His second feature film Nadia, Butterfly was announced as an official selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.[6]
Plante is a former competitive swimmer who tried out, but did not qualify, to represent Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics,[6] and subsequently studied film at Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.[7]
He has also directed the short films La fleur de l'âge, Je suis un château de sable qui attend la mer, Baby Blues, Drum de marde!, Blue-Eyed Blonde, Nonna and Blast Beat, and has worked as a sound mixer and editor on other film projects.
References
- ^ Nick Clement, "Berlin Facetime: Director Pascal Plante of ‘Fake Tattoos’". Variety, February 23, 2018.
- ^ François Lévesque, "Pascal Plante, ou les personnages d’abord". Le Devoir, February 10, 2018.
- ^ "Never Steady, Never Still takes the big prizes at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards". The Georgia Straight, January 9, 2018.
- ^ "Cinq bonnes raisons de regarder le Gala Québec Cinéma". Le Journal de Montréal, June 2, 2018.
- ^ "Meilleur film aux prix Écrans canadiens: les cinq finalistes sont québécois". La Presse, February 7, 2019.
- ^ a b Gregory Strong, "Canada's Plante humbled by Cannes selection for film 'Nadia, Butterfly'". CityNews, June 4, 2020.
- ^ Renée Dunk, "Film students strut their stuff". Concordia University, May 10, 2011.