Rafaël Ouellet

Rafaël Ouellet is a Canadian screenwriter and film director from Dégelis, Quebec.

He launched his career as a cameraman, editor and director for MusiquePlus from 1998 to 2004. He received a Juno Award nomination for Music DVD of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2004, for his work on Our Lady Peace's concert DVD Our Lady Peace Live in Alberta. He then directed episodes of the television series Le Groulx Luxe and Canadian Case Files, and was the editor of Denis Côté's 2005 film Drifting States (Les États nordiques), before releasing his debut feature film, Mona's Daughters (Le cèdre penché), in 2007.

He firstly became widely known for his 2012 film Camion, for which he received Jutra Award nominations for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editing at the 15th Jutra Awards in 2013.

His newest film, Family Game (Arsenault et fils), entered the production process in 2020. It was shot in Ouellet's hometown, and was released in 2022. The film received eight Prix Iris nominations at the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2023, including nods for Ouellet in both Best Director and Best Screenplay.

In 2025, Productions Casablanca announced that Ouellet will write and direct a forthcoming adaptation of Alex Viens's novel Les pénitences. In the same year he entered production on Hantée, a fantasy comedy written by India Desjardins about a teenage girl who befriends the ghost haunting her family home.

Filmography

Film Mona's Daughters (Le Cèdre penché) - 2007 New Denmark - 2009 Camion - 2012 Gurov and Anna (Gurov et Anna) - 2015 Family Game (Arsenault et fils) - 2022 Hantée - TBA Les pénitences - TBA

Television Le Groulx Luxe - 2003 Canadian Case Files - 2005 The Phoenix Sessions - 2006 Pendant ce temps, devant la télé - 2007 La vie nous arrive - 2012 Nouvelle adresse - 2014 Blue Moon - 2018 Cheval Serpent - 2018 Ruptures - 2018 Virage - 2023

Music DVDs Our Lady Peace: Live in Alberta - 2003 Our Lady Peace: Decade - 2006 Loose: The Concert (Nelly Furtado) - 2007