Marc-Antoine Lemire

Marc-Antoine Lemire (born 1990) is a Canadian film director.[1] He is most noted for his 2017 short film Pre-Drink, which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, and the Prix Iris for best Fiction Short Film at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards.[2]

A graduate of the film studies program at the Université du Québec à Montréal, he won the Prix du meilleur espoir en cinéma documentaire in 2013 for his documentary film Ces trottoirs où nous marchons.[3] He made the short films Plaisirs de table (2012) and Joséphine, ou Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide (2013) before breaking through to wider attention with his 2015 short film Inner Jellyfishes (Les Méduses), which screened at film festivals across Canada and internationally.[4]

He has also worked in the art department for other films as an art director and propmaster.[1]

References
  1. "Marc-Antoine Lemire". MediaQueer.
  2. "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri takes home TIFF's top honour". CBC News, September 17, 2017.
  3. "Cinéma documentaire : Marc-Antoine Lemire reçoit le Prix du meilleur espoir". Actualités UQAM, June 14, 2013.
  4. "Les Méduses". MediaQueer.


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