My Name Is Victor Gazon

My Name Is Victor Gazon
FrenchMon nom est Victor Gazon
Directed byPatrick Gazé
Written byPatrick Gazé
Produced byAntonello Cozzolino
Marie-Josée Larocque
Annie Normandin
StarringClaudel Poirier
Jassen Charron
CinematographyNicolas Bolduc
Edited byPatrick Gazé
Production
company
Facteur 7
Distributed byDisk4t Distribution
Release date
  • 2008 (2008)
Running time
11 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

My Name Is Victor Gazon (French: Mon nom est Victor Gazon) is a Canadian short comedy-drama film, directed by Patrick Gazé and released in 2008.[1] The film stars Claudel Poirier as the titular Victor Gazon, a young boy enumerating the pros and cons of living for a suicide prevention project at school, soon after his own uncle has committed suicide.[2]

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2008.[3] It was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 29th Genie Awards,[4] and a Prix Jutra nominee for Best Short Film at the 11th Jutra Awards.[5]

  1. ^ "Mon nom est Victor Gazon". Le Quotidien, March 8, 2012.
  2. ^ "Short and sweet". The Varsity, January 29, 2009.
  3. ^ Glenn Sumi, "Feting the best of the year". Now, December 17, 2008.
  4. ^ Peter Knegt, "“Necessities of Life” Leads Genie Nods". IndieWire, February 10, 2009.
  5. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Jutra 2009: Ce qu’il faut pour vivre illumine la soirée". Films du Québec, April 2, 2009.