Louise Archambault is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter.
She is best known for her films Familia, which won the Claude Jutra Award in 2005, and Gabrielle, which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture in 2014.
Louise Archambault | |
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Born | Montreal |
Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation | Director |
Years active | 1990-present |
Archambault has directed numerous short films, including Atomic Saké, Lock, Petite Mort and Kluane. Her film Gabrielle was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, and won two Canadian Screen Awards at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards, for Best Picture and Best Actress for star Gabrielle Marion-Rivard.
Her third feature film And the Birds Rained Down, an adaptation of Jocelyne Saucier's novel Il pleuvait des oiseaux, was released in 2019. Her fourth film, Thanks for Everything (Merci pour tout), followed later the same year. and One Summer (Le temps d'un été) was released in 2023. In 2023 she also released Irena's Vow, her first English-language film. The feature tells a story of a former nurse who shelters a dozen Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Archambault is a graduate of Concordia University in Montreal (BFA 93, MFA 00).
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