Pedro Pires (director)
Pedro Pires (born 1969 in Nantes, France) is a Canadian film director.[1] He won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival for Danse Macabre,[2] his short film Hope was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012,[3] and he was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Director at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for Triptych, which he co-directed with Robert Lepage.[4]
He is also a visual effects technician and art director, whose credits have included several of Lepage's other films and the television series Charlie Jade.[5]
References
- ^ "Two directors, two fortes; Pires and Lepage complement each other in the visually rich, conceptually complex Triptyque". Montreal Gazette, October 9, 2013.
- ^ "It's a wrap for TIFF; Film 'Precious' nabs audience prize at festival, stoking Oscar predictions". Telegraph-Journal, September 21, 2009.
- ^ "Genie Awards 2012: the nominations". Hour Community, January 17, 2012.
- ^ "Hooray for Canada; Canadian Screen Awards on Sunday". Windsor Star, March 8, 2014.
- ^ "Visual language is key to Pires's short film format; Hope is set 'where dreams mix with reality'". Montreal Gazette, September 15, 2011.
External links
- Pedro Pires at IMDb
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