Louis Bélanger

Louis Bélanger (born 1964) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has a degree in communications from UQAM. He is a collaborator of filmmaker Denis Chouinard; both men created several short films together before branching off into their own careers with feature films. His film Post Mortem won him Best Director at the Montreal World Film Festival and earned him two Genie Awards, for best new director and best screenplay.

He began making films and long-form videos while a student. He shot videos for Télévision Suisse Romande in the late 1990s before turning to directing his first feature, Post Mortem in 1999. His follow-up was Lauzon-Lauzone, a documentary about director Jean-Claude Lauzon, and a second feature in 2003, Gaz Bar Blues. Influenced by the man-of-the-people-docudrama style of John Cassavetes and Ken Loach, he has said that "there aren’t any new stories to tell; all that matters is the telling."

Filmography

Feature films Post Mortem - 1999 Gaz Bar Blues - 2003 The Genius of Crime (Le génie du crime) - 2006 The Timekeeper (L'Heure de vérité) - 2009 Route 132 - 2010 Bad Seeds (Les Mauvaises herbes) - 2016 Living 100 MPH (Vivre à 100 milles à l'heure) - 2019 125, rue des Malaises - 2026

Other films Dogmatisme ou Le songe d'Adrien (Short film co-directed with Denis Chouinard, 1988) Le soleil et ses traces (Short film co-directed with Denis Chouinard, 1990) Les galeries Wilderton (Short film, 1991) Les 14 définitions de la pluie (Short film co-directed with Denis Chouinard, 1993) Lauzon Lauzone (Documentary, 2000) Nightlight (TV movie, 2003), starring Shannen Doherty, thriller film about a stalker, also known as View of Terror Lies and Deception (TV movie, 2005)