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François Girard

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. François Girard (born January 12, 1963) is a French-Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Born in Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit. In 1990, he produced his first feature film, Cargo; he attained international recognition following his 1993 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, a series of vignettes about the life of piano prodigy Glenn Gould. In 1998, he wrote and directed The Red Violin, which follows the ownership of a red violin over several centuries. The Red Violin won an Academy Award for Best Original Soundtrack, thirteen Genie Awards and nine Jutra Awards. He has also directed various works for the stage, including Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, Oedipus Rex and Novencento at the Edinburgh International Festival; Kafka's The Trial at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa; the oratorio Lost Objects at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Siegfried in Toronto; and The Lindbergh Flight and The Seven Deadly Sins, first in Lyon and then in Edinburgh. Girard has also produced a residency show for Cirque du Soleil, Zed , in Tokyo and Zarkana, which will open at Radio City Music Hall in New York in the summer of 2011. His television credits include Le dortoir, Peter Gabriel's Secret World and The Sound of the Carceri, one of the six episodes of Yo Yo Ma Inspired by Bach. Description above from the Wikipedia article François Girard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​


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Born:
Jan 12, 1963 In St-Felicien, Quebec, Canada
Movie/TV Credits:
14
First Appeared:
In the movie Last Night 1998-10-23
Latest Project:
Series Totems 2022-02-18
Known For
Poster of Of Love and Lies
Poster of Le cri du rhinocéros
Poster of Club social
Poster of Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
Filmography
Series Totems Pierre 2022-02-18
Movie Emma Bovary Professeur de Savate 2021-12-13
Movie Of Love and Lies comparse 2019-02-03
Movie It Must Be Heaven Policeman 2019-12-04
Movie Anna Cascadeur (uncredited) 2019-06-19
Movie Hors saison Anthony 2018-06-06
Movie Le cri du rhinocéros Self 2018-11-27
Movie Through the Fire Firefighter Warrant Officer (uncredited) 2018-11-28
Movie See You Up There The Stretcher Bearer 2017-10-25
Movie Cirque du Soleil: The Surreal World of Zarkana Himself 2011-06-29
Series Club social Himself 2008-09-25
Series Tout le monde en parle Himself 2004-09-12
Movie Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche elf 2004-01-01
Movie Last Night Wild Guy #1 1998-10-23