Henry Bernadet is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter from Quebec, whose solo directorial debut film Gamma Rays (Les Rayons gamma) was released in 2023.[1]
Originally from Quebec City,[2] he made a number of short films as an independent filmmaker before co-directing the feature film West of Pluto (À l'ouest de Pluton) with Myriam Verreault in 2008.[3]
He subsequently moved to Montreal to study film at Concordia University,[2] and directed further short films, and television series episodes, before making Gamma Rays. He cast the film by approaching Georges-Vanier secondary school in the Montreal borough of Villeray to seek out students in the school's theatre program, and working with them to create a film that would depict stories drawn in part from their own experiences as members of racialized minority groups.[4]
Gamma Rays was a shortlisted finalist for the 2024 Prix collégial du cinéma québécois,[5] and Bernadet, Marie-Anne Sergerie and Victor Tremblay-Blouin received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Casting at the 26th Quebec Cinema Awards.[6]