Lyse Lafontaine
Born1942 (age 81–82)
NationalityFrench Canadian
Alma materUniversité de Montréal
OccupationFilm producer
AwardsPrix Iris Hommage

Lyse Lafontaine (born 1942[1]) is a Canadian film producer known for working with directors Jean-Claude Lauzon and Xavier Dolan.[2][3][4] She works at Lyla Films in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[2]

Early life

Born to La Presse reporter Gaston Lafontaine,[3] Lyse studied literature at the Université de Montréal and earned her degree.[5] She married Stéphane Venne and managed the rock band Offenbach in 1972. She became a stage manager on the 1974 film The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, and married her second husband, moving to The Bahamas for two years before returning to Canada.[3]

Career

In 1976, Lafontaine served as location manager for the film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, starring Jodie Foster.[6] Lafontaine met Lauzon when he was pitching his screenplay for Léolo (1992), which other producers had rejected.[2] It became the first film she produced,[4] with Aimée Danis, for which they were nominated for the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture. While in Italy during filming, Lauzon gave Lafontaine a letter thanking her for her ineptitude in business, which he considered necessary to make a film with feeling. She kept it as a cherished keepsake.[3]

Working with Dolan, she produced Laurence Anyways (2012) and served as an associate producer for Mommy (2014).[2] Dolan's Laurence Anyways was inspired by Lafontaine's ex-boyfriend Luc Baillairgé, the father of her son Mikaël, who had a small part in Léolo.[3] With Dolan, she personally traveled to London in 2017 to work on his The Death and Life of John F. Donovan.[4]

In 2015, Lafontaine produced La Passion d’Augustine with François Tremblay,[7] winning the Québec Cinéma Award for Best Film.[8] On 1 June 2017 at the 19th Quebec Cinema Awards, she was awarded the Iris Hommage for 30 years of contributions to Quebec cinema.[9]

Filmography

Her films include:[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Lyse Lafontaine". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on May 24, 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Dillon, Mark (9 March 2015). "Playback Canadian Film & TV Hall of Fame: Lyse Lafontaine". Playback. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Petrowski, Nathalie (1 June 2017). "Lyse Lafontaine: la missionnaire aventurière du cinéma". La Presse. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 Demers, Maxime (20 May 2017). "Un prix hommage pour Lyse Lafontaine". Le Journal de Montréal. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Le prix Iris Hommage décerné à la productrice Lyse Lafontaine". Le Devoir. 11 May 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane". American Film Institute. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  7. ↑ Simpson, Peter (20 August 2015). "Two very Canadian movie nights at Rideau Hall". The Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  8. ↑ Staff (21 March 2016). "La passion d'augustine wins big at Le gala du cinema Quebecois". Playback. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  9. ↑ The Canadian Press (1 June 2017). "Gala des artisans Québec Cinéma: Juste La Fin du monde obtient trois prix Iris". La Presse. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
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