Joëlle Desjardins Paquette

Joëlle Desjardins Paquette is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, who won the Borsos Competition award for Best Director of a Borsos Competition Film at the 2022 Whistler Film Festival for her 2022 film Rodeo (Rodéo).[1] The film was subsequently nominated for the John Dunning Best First Feature Award at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.[2]

She previously directed a number of short films, as well as television and webseries episodes. Her 2012 short Wintergreen (Paparmane) was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list in 2012.[3]

Filmography

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  • Timbré – 2007
  • Wintergreen (Paparmane) – 2012
  • Apnées – 2012
  • Voir le ciel – 2012
  • Sans dehors ni dedans – 2015
  • Beyond Blue Waves (Flots gris) – 2016
  • Rapkeb Allstarz – 2018
  • Une vue sous les étoiles – 2020[4]
  • Rosalie dans ta cuisine – 2021
  • Parfaitement imparfait – 2021[5]
  • Rodeo (Rodéo) – 2022[6]

References

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  1. ^ Pat Mullen, "River, Coyote Top Whistler Film Festival Awards Winners". Point of View, December 4, 2022.
  2. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Écrans canadiens – Viking,13 nominations". Films du Québec, February 22, 2023.
  3. ^ "Rebelle, Goon, Cosmopolis among Canada's Top Ten: Honoured film titles will be shown at Lightbox from Jan. 4 to 13". Toronto Star, December 5, 2012.
  4. ^ Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy, "«Une vue sous les étoiles»: rêves à l'auto". Le Devoir, May 29, 2020.
  5. ^ "Une websérie documentaire où 20 personnalités et 20 jeunes parlent de santé mentale". Journal L'Horizon, February 25, 2021.
  6. ^ Pierre-Marc Durivage, "Premier coup d’œil au film Rodéo". La Presse, October 5, 2022.
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