Chloé Leriche is a Canadian film director from Montreal, Quebec.[1] Her debut feature film, Before the Streets (Avant les rues), received six Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, including Best Picture and a nod for Leriche as Best Director.[2]

Leriche, a largely self-taught filmmaker,[1] made a number of short films and worked as an educator with film and video training programs for homeless youth and First Nations,[3] before writing and directing Before the Streets.[4] Her most noted short film, The Schoolyard (Les Grands), was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual Canada's Top Ten list for short films in 2007.[5]

Before the Streets won the Borsos Competition award for best picture, and Leriche won the award for best director, at the 2016 Whistler Film Festival.[6] At the 2016 Directors Guild of Canada awards, Leriche won the DGC Discovery Award.[7]

Her second feature film, Atikamekw Suns (Soleils Atikamekw), premiered at the 2023 Festival du nouveau cinéma,[8] and was shortlisted for the 2023 DGC Discovery Award.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Chloé Leriche à la Berlinale avec un film en langue attikamekw". Voir, January 13, 2016.
  2. ↑ "The Canadian Screen Awards nominations are out!". Now, January 17, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Chloé Leriche: pour contrer l'indifférence". La Presse, April 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Berlinale 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chloé Leriche – ‘Before the Streets’". Indiewire, February 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Cronenberg, Arcand make Hogtown film festival's top Canadian movies list". Daily Gleaner, December 12, 2007.
  6. ↑ "Before the Streets wins big in Whistler". Playback, December 5, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Paul Gross takes top film honours at Directors Guild of Canada Awards". The Globe and Mail, October 22, 2016.
  8. ↑ Charles-Henri Ramond, "FNC 2023: la sélection québécoise". Films du Québec, September 20, 2023.
  9. ↑ Taimur Sikander Mirza, "Women Talking leads film nominees for 2023 DGC Awards". Playback, September 20, 2023.


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