Laurent Gagliardi (born October 18, 1948, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian screenwriter and film director.[1] He is most noted as cowriter with Léa Pool and Michel Langlois of the screenplay for The Savage Woman (La Demoiselle sauvage), for which the trio received a Genie Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 12th Genie Awards in 1991,[2] and as the director of the films The Night of the Visitor (La Nuit du visiteur), which was a Genie nominee for Best Theatrical Short Film in the same year,[2] and When Love Is Gay (Quand l'amour est gai), the first documentary film on homosexuality ever released by the French division of the National Film Board of Canada.[3]