Anne Émond

Anne Émond born 1982 is a Canadian film director and screenwriter currently based in Montreal Quebec Since then she has written and directed seven short films including LOrdre des choses 2009 Naissances 2009 Sophie Lavoie 2009 and Plus rien ne vouloir 2011 LOrdre des choses won the Coop Vidéo Prize for Best Director in 2009 at the Rendezvous du cinéma québécois It was also nominated for the Claude Jutra Award Naissances was chosen as one of the Toronto International Film Festivals top ten Canadian short films of 2009 and was nominated at the Brooklyn International Film Festival Émonds short film Sophie Lavoie won the best shortfilm for the Festival du Nouveau Cinemacitation needed Her debut feature film Nuit 1 succeeded in cementing her personal style a style characterized by long takes theatrical monologues and thematics such as youth loneliness and female sexuality Émond won the Claude Jutra Award for the years best feature film by a firsttime director at the 2012 Genie Awards Her second feature film Our Loved Ones Les êtres chers premiered to positive reviews at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2015 and had its Canadian premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival The story begins in 1978 in a small village on the Lower St Lawrence as the Leblanc family is rocked by the tragic death of Guy In December the film was announced as part of TIFFs annual Canadas Top Ten screening series of the ten best Canadian feature films of the year In 2016 Émond received the Stella Artois Jay Scott Prize awarded to an emerging artist by the Toronto Film Critics Association for Our Loved Ones The film received seven Quebec Cinema Award nominations at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards for Best Film Best Direction Best Screenplay Best Actor Maxim Gaudette Best Art Direction Best Editing and Best Hairstyling Her third film Nelly is based on the life of Canadian novelist Nelly Arcan In 2017 she was the patron and curator of the Festival Vues dans la tête de film festival in RivièreduLoup