Awards & Juries

Louve d’Or, International Selection
Best first, second or third feature film in the International Selection (Competition)

Best Acting Award
Best actor in a feature film in the International Selection (Competition)

Daniel Langlois Innovation Award
In order to highlight the exceptional contribution of Daniel Langlois to the development and longevity of the FNC, as well as his dedication to advancing the field of arts and culture, the Daniel Langlois Innovation Award recognizes a work in the International Selection that distinguishes itself for its aesthetic audacity, its creative use of new technologies and/or its groundbreaking treatment of a sensitive subject matter.

Focus - Cinémathèque Québécoise Grand Prize ($1,500 cash and $3,500 in services)
Best feature film in the Focus section

International Film Guide Award
Best Short Film in the Focus Section

Radio-Canada Audience Award ($5,000)
Best feature film in the Focus section, as chosen by the public

Z-Télé Grand Prize ($1,000)
Best feature film in the Temps Ø section, as chosen by the public

Juries

Charlotte Laurier

In 1978, Charlotte Laurier gave an instinctive, unforgettable performance as Manon in Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras), still rated one of the best Canadian movies of all time, before going on to work with Fournier (Bonheur d’occasion) and Jutra (La Dame en couleurs), and in television (Scoop). Her play Capharnaüm was mounted in 2003, and a second, multimedia work, Autopsie femme, in 2005. She wrote, directed and starred in her first feature-length film, Les Plus beaux yeux du monde, which screened at the 2006 FNC. She is currently writing another feature, Arthur le Preux.

Robert Lévesque

Journalist and author Robert Lévesque has worked in numerous Quebec media including Québec-Presse and Le Jour in the 1970s, Le Devoir from 1981 to 1996, and at the radio network of Radio-Canada since 1997. He is a film critic and a founder of the Association Québécoise des Critiques de Cinéma, as well as a theatre critic, book reviewer and essayist (Boréal). Awarded the Prix Judith-Jasmin (1989) and the Prix Jules-Fournier (2002). A documentary report on his career was broadcast on Radio-Canada in June 2008.

Michel Savoy

Michel Savoy is the programming director of Cinéma Cartier in Quebec City, an all-digital movie theatre whose mandate is to present films that have never been shown on a big screen in that city. The films he brings in come from around the world, and most have not been in distribution in Quebec. Along with its distinctive program, the Cartier offers projection quality that is state-of-the-art.

Gabrielle Lazure

Born in Philadelphia and raised in Montreal, Gabrielle Lazure, when she was a psychology student in 1978, decided to move to Paris. She then trained as an actress. Her career was launched with Alain Robbe- Grillet’s film La Belle captive, She stars in the recently released La Saison des orphelins and the soon to be released Québécois feature directed by Patrice Sauvé, Grande Ourse. Gabrielle is preparing her directorial debut.

Anne-Laure Poulet

Anne-Laure Poulet is a doctoral student in film studies at the University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle. After studies towards a master’s degree at the University of Montreal in 2004, and several research sessions in Quebec, she is now writing a thesis on the representation of national history in Quebec cinema.

Joanne Senécal

Director of Marketing and Distribution at Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm from 1990 to 1998, Joanne Senécal then became Director of Distribution for Behaviour (1998-2000). From 2000 to 2004, she was Associate Co-Director at Film Tonic, and then Vice-President, Distribution at TVA Films (2004-2006). In 2007 at Christal Films, she held the position of Vice-President, Distribution. She now represents the company internationally and in Canada, responsible for all launch events. She is also a board member with the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois.

François Blouin

After an exemplary career as a wedding videographer, his passion for veering off-track and his love of speed (sic) destined him for music videos. A few Daniel Bouchers, Joranes, Bruno Pelletiers, Yann Perreaults and Xavier Caféïnes later, between two scratch-video performances, he made the feature-length Bobby, an unaware comedy dealing with chemical castration, after which he blithely moved on to a documentary on romantic commitment. A digital macramé novice, he is working in advertising while preparing his next feature.

Mylène Chollet

Mylène Chollet has worked in the film industry for ten years. In 2004, she began scriptwriting studies at INIS. Her final-year project, a short film titled L'Effet secondaire, took prizes in France and the Czech Republic. After graduation, she became head writer and adaptations writer for the children’s series Inuk. She is currently writing her first feature-length fiction film, Le But d'Alain Côté.

Carlos Ferrand

Carlos Ferrand was born in Lima, Peru. He spent many years wandering, from Lima to Brussels, Paris and Vermont, with film always at the centre of his interests. For the past 35 years, he has been a writer and director and has worked as director of photography on some fifty films in fiction and documentary.

Réal La Rochelle

Holding a PhD in Communications from the Université Stendhal in Grenoble, Réal La Rochelle is Advisor and Founding President of the Phonothèque québécoise/Musée du son de Montréal.  He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at the University of Montreal, and gives seminar lectures on film scores at INIS (Institut national de l’image et du son).  Film critic and audiovisual media scholar, he contributes to various publications, among them 24 Images, as well as to FM Radio-Canada. 
Réal La Rochelle published an essay on the phonographic industry entitled Callas: L'opéra du disque.  In 2004 he published the book Denys Arcand: L’ange exterminateur and supervised the booklet of the NFB DVD box set, Denys Arcand: L’oeuvre documentaire intégrale.  He is currently working on a publication entitled Leonard Bernstein à la télévision. L'écran dionysiaque.

Peter Rist

Peter Rist is Head of the Cinema Department at Concordia University.  His areas of research interest include silent American film, Brazilian, Cuban, Korean, and Chinese (including Hong Kong) cinemas, and the history of film style.
Rist’s book, South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography, 1915-1994, was published in 1996 and appeared in paper in 1998 (University of Texas Press). He has also edited an encyclopedia on Canadian cinema entitled A Guide to the Cinema(s) of Canada (Greenwood Press, 2001).

Bruno Cornellier

Bruno Cornellier est étudiant au doctorat en communications à l’Université Concordia.  Également fondateur et rédacteur en chef de la revue en ligne Nouvelles vues sur le cinéma québécois, il rédige actuellement une thèse sur les questions identitaires dans le cinéma canadien et québécois.