Myriam Verreault

Myriam Verreault
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Film director
screenwriter

Myriam Verreault is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.[1] She is most noted for her 2019 film Kuessipan, for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards,[2] and two Prix Iris nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards.[3]

Her other works have included the feature film West of Pluto (À l'ouest de Pluton), co-directed with Henry Bernadet,[1] and the web documentary My Tribe Is My Life (Ma tribu c'est ma vie),[4] as well as an editing credit on Olivier Higgins and Mélanie Carrier's 2013 documentary film Québékoisie.

In 2020 she was the patron and curator of the Festival Vues dans la tête de... film festival in Rivière-du-Loup.[5]

In 2024, Verreault was announced as directing a film adaptation of Emmanuelle Pierrot's award-winning 2023 novel La version qui n'intéresse personne.[6]

  1. ^ a b Éric Moreault, "Myriam Verreault: Construire un pont entre les nations". Le Soleil, September 27, 2019.
  2. ^ "Écrans canadiens : Song of Names, The Twentieth Century et Antigone en tête des nominations". Ici Radio-Canada, February 18, 2020.
  3. ^ "Les femmes brillent aux nominations du Gala Québec Cinéma". Ici Radio-Canada, April 23, 2020.
  4. ^ Désautels, Michel (February 9, 2011). "Ma tribu, c'est ma vie, un webdocumentaire sur les réseaux sociaux" (Radio interview). Première Chaîne (in French). Montreal. Retrieved April 7, 2011.
  5. ^ "Vues dans la tête de...Myriam Verreault". Ici Radio-Canada Bas-Saint-Laurent, February 8, 2020.
  6. ^ Brendan Christie, "Couronne Nord acquires rights to Emmanuelle Pierrot novel". Playback, May 7, 2024.