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ANAÏS BARBEAU-LAVALETTE
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Following a trip to Honduras, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette directed the feature documentary Les Petits princes des bidonvilles (2000) who won the Public Prize at Montreal’s Muestra Cultural Latinoamericana. While studying at INIS, she directed the shorts Sorcières comme les autres (2000) and Les Mots bleus (2001). She then co-directed the short documentary Buenos Aires, no llores, shot in Argentina and selected in many international film festivals.
In 2002, she represented Canada at United Nation’s Volunteers' Odyssey, which brought her to travel around the world and shoot 15 short documentaries. Afterwards, she directed more documentaries, including the features Les Mains du Monde (broadcast by Télé-Québec) and Si j'avais un chapeau (co-directed with Arnaud Bouquet) which gave a voice to children from Quebec, India, Tanzania and Palestine. The film won a Special Jury Mention at the festival Vues d'Afrique and two nominations at the Gemini Awards in 2006 for Best Social Issue Documentary and Best Research. In 2007, she directed the documentary feature Tap-Tap, a poetic portrait of Montreal’s Haitian community.
In 2008, her first fiction feature, Le Ring (The Fight), is released. Well received by critics, the film was part of the official selection in Pusan and Berlin’s film festivals that same year. It also won many international awards including the New Talent Grand Prize and the Golden Lion Award at Taipei Film Festival, the Best Director Award at Miradas Madrid Film Festival, and the Special Jury Award at Vladivostok Film Festival in Russia. In 2009, her documentary Les Petits Géants (co-directed with Émile Proulx-Cloutier) was chosen as the closing night film at Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois and was later theatrically released.
Anaïs is now putting the last touches to the script of her second feature length fiction, Inch'Allah, and will publish shortly her first novel, Boxing Day (Éditions Hurtubise).
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