Sophie Bédard Marcotte is a Canadian film director from Montreal, Quebec,[1] whose films explore the boundaries between documentary and fiction storytelling.[2]
She had a number of sound credits on films before releasing her debut documentary film, I've Gone Backwards or Something (J'ai comme reculé, on dirait), in 2017.[3]
Her second feature but first narrative fiction film, Winter Claire (Claire l'hiver), premiered at the 2017 Festival du nouveau cinéma before going into commercial release in 2018,[4] and was shortlisted for the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois in 2019.[5] Despite not considering herself an actress, she appeared in the film as its lead character, as she felt that could not afford to pay a professional actress.[6]
She followed up in 2019 with L.A. Tea Time, a semi-fictionalized documentary about her own road trip across the United States with friend and colleague Isabelle Stachtchenko.[7] The film was longlisted for the 2019 DGC Discovery Award.[8]
References
edit- ^ Olivier Thibodeau, "Entrevue avec Sophie Bédard Marcotte". Panorama-Cinéma, March 29, 2018.
- ^ Helen Faradji, "Sophie Bédard Marcotte : le cinéma comme exploration des possibles". Ici Radio-Canada, January 15, 2020.
- ^ Jérôme Delgado, "Sophie Bédard Marcotte signe «Claire l'hiver», une première fiction audacieuse". Le Devoir, October 6, 2017.
- ^ Jérôme Delgado, "«Claire l’hiver»: traverser l’apathie". Le Devoir, March 30, 2018.
- ^ ""Happy Face" remporte le Prix collégial du cinéma québécois". Le Journal de Montréal (in French). March 30, 2019.
- ^ Justine Smith, "L.A. Tea Time is a road trip like no other". Cult MTL, January 17, 2020.
- ^ Helen Faradji, "La passionnante odyssée à hauteur de femmes de L.A. Tea Time". Ici Radio-Canada, May 13, 2022.
- ^ Connie Thiessen, "Ellen Page, Megan Wennberg among DGC Discovery Award nominees". Broadcast Dialogue, September 9, 2019.
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