Sophie Goyette

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Sophie Goyette is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.[1] She is most noted for her 2012 short film The Near Future (Le futur proche), which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards,[2] and a Prix Jutra nominee for Best Short Film at the 15th Jutra Awards.[3]

She was also a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 32nd Genie Awards for ,[4] which was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2011.[5]

Her debut feature film, Still Night, Still Light (Mes nuits feront écho), was released in 2016,[6] and was a nominee for the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Discovery Award in 2017.[7]

In 2019 she was one of seven directors, alongside Kaveh Nabatian, Juan Andrés Arango, Sophie Deraspe, Karl Lemieux, Ariane Lorrain and Caroline Monnet, of the anthology film The Seven Last Words (Les sept dernières paroles).[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Oriane Morriet, "Sophie Goyette discute de la carrière de son film « Mes nuits feront écho »". Lien Multimédia, January 26, 2018.
  2. ^ "Introducing the Canadian Screen Awards, and their 2013 nominees". Maclean's, January 15, 2013.
  3. ^ "Spotlight shines on Quebec cinema at the Jutra awards". CBC News Montreal, March 17, 2013.
  4. ^ Brian D. Johnson, "Quebec and Croneberg (sic) lead Genies". Maclean's, January 17, 2012.
  5. ^ "The Festival group releases Canada's annual top ten". Postmedia News, December 7, 2011.
  6. ^ Manon Dumais, "«Mes nuits feront écho»: rêver mieux". Le Devoir, January 9, 2017.
  7. ^ Barry Hertz, "Directors Guild of Canada reveals long list for Discovery Award". The Globe and Mail, September 5, 2017.
  8. ^ Justine Smith, "Anthology film The Seven Last Words is unified by music and human vulnerability". Cult MTL, June 14, 2019.

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