My Friend Dino

My Friend Dino
Film poster
FrenchMon ami Dino
Directed byJimmy Larouche
Written byJimmy Larouche
Produced byJimmy Larouche
Renouf Williams
David-Olivier St-Denis
StarringDino Tavarone
Michel Côté
Sasha Migliarese
Manuel Tadros
CinematographyMathieu Chouinard
Edited byMathieu Demers
Jimmy Larouche
Music byManuel Gasse
Production
companies
Alma Films
GreenGround Productions
Distributed byMaison 4:3
Release date
  • August 1, 2016 (2016-08-01)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

My Friend Dino (French: Mon ami Dino) is a Canadian docufiction film, directed by Jimmy Larouche and released in 2016.[1] A fictionalized documentary about the life of Dino Tavarone, who spent four years in prison for drug trafficking before finding fame playing a mafia boss in the television series Omertà in the 1990s,[2] the film focuses on his life in his 70s as he battles a serious illness.[3]

The film's cast also includes Michel Côté, Manuel Tadros, Joëlle Morin and Sasha Migliarese. Côté, Tadros and Morin played versions of themselves, while Migliarese played Tavarone's daughter Meredith.[4]

Migliarese received a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 19th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2017.[5]

  1. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Mon ami Dino – Film de Jimmy Larouche". Films du Québec, July 5, 2016.
  2. ^ Hugo Meunier, "Mon ami Dino: le testament de Dino Tavarone". La Presse, August 5, 2016.
  3. ^ Helen Faradji, "Mon ami Dino et quelques autres pépites du faux documentaire". Ici Radio-Canada, October 1, 2019.
  4. ^ Brendan Kelly, "Mon ami Dino: Q&A with actor Dino Tavarone". Montreal Gazette, August 4, 2016.
  5. ^ Boutros, Magdaline (April 5, 2017). "Gala Québec cinéma: Juste la fin du monde et Two Lovers and a Bear en tête". La Presse. Retrieved August 17, 2020.