Félix Dufour-Laperrière

Félix Dufour-Laperrière (born 1981) is a Canadian animator, film director and screenwriter from Chicoutimi, Quebec. He is most noted for his 2021 film Archipelago (Archipel), which was the winner of the Prix Luc-Perreault from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma at the 2022 Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma.

He also received two Prix Iris nominations for the film at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022, for Best Documentary Film and Best Editing in a Documentary.

Dufour made a number of short films before releasing his debut feature documentary film, Transatlantic (Transatlantique), in 2014. He was a four-time Jutra Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film, receiving nods at the 6th Jutra Awards in 2004 for Black Ink on Blue Sky (Encre noire sur fond d'azur), the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009 for Rosa Rosa, the 12th Jutra Awards in 2010 for M, and the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014 for The Day Is Listening (Le jour nous écoute).

His narrative feature debut, Ville Neuve, was a nominee for the DGC Discovery Award in 2018.

He is the brother of producer Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière, with whom he cofounded the studio Embuscade Films.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes 2003 Black Ink on Blue Sky (Encre noire sur fond d'azur) Director 2006 Un, deux, trois, crépuscule Director, producer, writer 2006 Head Director, producer codirected with Dominic Étienne Simard 2007 Variations sur Marilou Director, producer, writer 2008 Rosa Rosa Director, writer 2009 M Director, producer 2010 Strips Director, producer 2011 Canicule Director, producer codirector with Marie-Ève Juste 2012 Parallel North Director, producer 2012 Half Light Dynamics (Dynamique de la pénombre) Director codirector with Dominic Étienne Simard 2013 The Day Is Listening (Le jour nous écoute) Director, producer, writer 2014 Transatlantic (Transatlantique) Director, producer, writer 2016 Red of the Yew Tree (If ou le rouge perdu) Producer 2018 Ville Neuve Director, writer 2021 Archipelago (Archipel) Director, producer, writer 2022 This House (Cette maison) Producer 2025 Death Does Not Exist (La mort n'existe pas) Director, producer, writer