Marquise Lepage

Marquise Lepage
Marquise Lepage at the cinémathèque québécoise in 2018
Born
Marquise Lepage

(1959-09-06) September 6, 1959 (age 65)
Chénéville, Quebec, Canada
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, director, producer
Years active1983–present
Children2

Marquise Lepage (born September 6, 1959, in Chénéville, Quebec),[1] is a Canadian (Québécoise) producer, screenwriter, and film and television director. She is best known for her 1987 feature Marie in the City (Marie s'en va-t-en ville),[2] for which she received a nomination for Best Director at the 9th Genie Awards in 1988.[3] She was also a nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 14th Genie Awards in 1993 for Your Country, My Country (Dans ton pays). She was hired by the National Film Board (NFB) as a filmmaker in 1991.[4] One of her first major projects for the NFB was The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché, a documentary about female cinema pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché.[5]

Her other credits have included the documentary films Un soleil entre deux nuages,[6] Of Hopscotch and Little Girls,[7] Ma vie, c'est le théâtre and Martha of the North, the feature films La fête des rois[8] and Ce qu'il ne faut pas dire,[9] and episodes of the television documentary series Canada: A People's History.

Lepage is known for directing fiction films and documentaries with a social twist. In an interview in 2015, she declared herself a feminist.[10]

Lepage presided Quebec's film directors' association and Réalisatrices Équitables, a militant organization advocating equality between female and male filmmakers.

In 2008, she created her own production company, Les Productions du Cerf-Volant. The first fiction film she directed and produced for the company was One Night Stand: A Modern Love Story (Ce qu'il ne faut pas dire), which came out in theatres in May 2015.[11]

Her most recent film, Apapacho, was released in 2019.

  1. ^ "Marquise Lepage - Biography - Movies & TV - NYTimes.com". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2016. Archived from the original on March 9, 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
  2. ^ "Impressive debut". Vancouver Sun, October 22, 1987.
  3. ^ "Night Zoo thriller sets Genie record; Lauzon film wins 14 nominations". Ottawa Citizen, February 17, 1988.
  4. ^ "Film board hires 6". The Globe and Mail, May 31, 1991.
  5. ^ "Documentary honors first female filmmaker". Kingston Whig-Standard. March 2, 1995.
  6. ^ "Drop everything tonight to tune in: Un soleil entre deux nuages". Montreal Gazette. March 10, 1989.
  7. ^ "Two film solitudes?: Producer pulls films from Genies in favour of new Jutras". Montreal Gazette. November 23, 1998.
  8. ^ "Where are the new Claude Jutras?" The Globe and Mail. February 9, 1995.
  9. ^ "Dark drama, refined comedy; Love is a four-letter word for protagonist who has been burned by the concept in the past". Montreal Gazette. May 29, 2015.
  10. ^ "Ce qu'il ne faut pas dire : rencontre avec Marquise Lepage". Les Méconnus (in French). May 28, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
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