Anne Émond

Anne Émond (born 1982) is a French Canadian film director and screenwriter, currently based in Montreal, Quebec.

Early life and education Born in 1982, Anne Émond has lived and worked in Montreal since 2001. It was also nominated for the Claude Jutra Award. Naissances was chosen as one of the Toronto International Film Festival's top ten Canadian short films of 2009 and was nominated at the Brooklyn International Film Festival. Émond's short film Sophie Lavoie won the best short-film for the Festival du Nouveau Cinema.

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 year's best feature film by a first-time 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 TIFF's annual Canada's 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.

Filmography

Awards and honors 2012: Claude Jutra Award for Best First Film, Nuit #1, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television 23rd Palm Springs International Film Festival, USA, 2012 10th Pune International Film Festival, Inde, 2012 35th Göteborg International Film Festival, Suède, 2012 11th !F Istanbul International Independent Film Festival, Turkie, 2012 27th Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexique, 2012 41st Rotterdam International Film Festival, Pays-Bas, 2012 15e Cinéma du Québec à Paris, France, 2011 31e Festival International du film d'Amiens, France, 2011 28e Festival international du film francophone de Tübingen, Stuttgart, Allemagne, 2011 45th Hof International Film Festival, Allemagne, 2011 40e Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montréal, Québec, 2011 16th Busan International Film Festival, Corée du Sud, 2011 36th Toronto International Film Festival, Canada, 2011 40e Festival du nouveau Cinéma à Montréal, Canada, 2011 2011: "Shaw Media Award, best canadian film, Nuit #1, Vancouver International Film Festival" Jury Price, Best Film - 25e Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie, Moncton Pyrénée Best Actress (Catherine De Léan) Festival international du Film de Pau / Cinéma Le Méliès Nomination Prix génie 2012 de l'Académie Canadienne du cinéma et de la télévision pour la meilleure actrice (Catherine De Léan)