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Sara Montpetit is a Canadian actress and environmental activist from Quebec.[1] She is most noted for her performance in the 2021 film Maria Chapdelaine, for which she won the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards.[2]

Career

In 2021, she garnered acclaim for her performance in the film Maria Chapdelaine, winning the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards.[2] That year, she was also cast in Charlotte Le Bon's film Falcon Lake,[3] which later premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.[4]

Falcon Lake film was shot in mid-2021 in and around Gore, Quebec,[5] during COVID-19 pandemic.[6] The film debuted in the Director's Fortnight program at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2022.[7] It had its Canadian premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.[8]

In 2022, she was cast as Sasha, a teenage vampire who befriends Paul (Félix-Antoine Bénard), a boy with suicidal tendencies, in Ariane Louis-Seize's Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant), planned for release in 2023.[9] Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2023.[10] The film had its Canadian premiere in the Centrepiece program at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.[11]

Accolades

For her performance in the film Maria Chapdelaine, Montpetit won the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards.[2]

Montpetit received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Performance in a Film at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, for her performance in Falcon Lake.[12]

References

  1. ^ Jean Siag, "La militante Sara Montpetit incarnera Maria Chapdelaine". La Presse, February 17, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Lévesque, François (2022-06-06). "24th Quebec Cinema Awards". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  3. ^ Marie-Catherine Goudreau, "Falcon Lake : Le premier long-métrage de Charlotte Le Bon". Journal Accès, August 10, 2021.
  4. ^ "Le premier film de Charlotte Le Bon, Falcon Lake, sélectionné à Cannes". Ici Radio-Canada, April 19, 2022.
  5. ^ Marie-Catherine Goudreau, "Falcon Lake : Le premier long-métrage de Charlotte Le Bon". Journal Accès, August 10, 2021.
  6. ^ "The eco-friendly filming of Falcon Lake". On Tourne Vert / Rolling Green. 2 February 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  7. ^ "Le premier film de Charlotte Le Bon, Falcon Lake, sélectionné à Cannes". Ici Radio-Canada, April 19, 2022.
  8. ^ Pat Mullen, "TIFF Announces Canadian Films for 2022 Festival". That Shelf, August 10, 2022.
  9. ^ Éric Lavallée, "Bloodsuckers: Sara Montpetit Toplines Ariane Louis-Seize’s 'Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant'". Ion Cinema, October 25, 2022.
  10. ^ "Vampire dramedy, tribute to late Jean-Marc Vallée set for Venice film sidebar". Toronto Star, July 27, 2023.
  11. ^ Hazelton, John. "TIFF sets Centrepiece line-up of international cinema". Screen Daily. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  12. ^ Etan Vlessing, "Canadian Screen Awards: TV Drama ‘The Porter’ Leads With 19 Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter, February 22, 2023.
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