Michel La Veaux (born January 21, 1955, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian cinematographer and documentary filmmaker.[1] He is most noted for his work on the films The Dismantling (Le Démantèlement), for which he won the Jutra Award for Best Cinematography at the 16th Jutra Awards,[2] and The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles), for which he won the Borsos Competition award for best cinematography in a Canadian film at the 2018 Whistler Film Festival.[3]
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La Veaux has also been a Jutra/Iris nominee at the 13th Jutra Awards in 2011 for Mourning for Anna (Trois temps après la mort d'Anna),[4] at the 14th Jutra Awards in 2012 for For the Love of God (Pour l'amour de Dieu)[5] and at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018 for Iqaluit,[6] and a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for Meetings with a Young Poet.[7]
La Veaux has also directed a number of documentary films, including Hôtel La Louisiane (2015) and Labrecque, une caméra pour la mémoire (2016).[8]
References
edit- ^ Chantal Guy, "École de cinéma: une semaine avec Michel La Veaux". La Presse, May 27, 2018.
- ^ Manon Dumais, "Jutra 2014: Le triomphe de Louis Cyr". Voir, March 23, 2014.
- ^ Adrian Mack, "Québécois film A Colony sweeps Whistler Film Fest awards". The Georgia Straight, December 3, 2018.
- ^ Marc Cassivi, "Soirée des Jutra: Incendies, favori d'un cru relevé". La Presse, February 9, 2011.
- ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Prix Jutra 2012: voilà les nominations". Films du Québec, January 31, 2012.
- ^ André Duchesne, "Iris: Le problème d'infiltration et Hochelaga en tête des nominations". La Presse, April 10, 2018.
- ^ Ryan Lattanzio, "Canadian Academy Awards Nominate ‘Mommy,’ ‘Maps to the Stars’". IndieWire, January 13, 2015.
- ^ François Lévesque, "Mise en lumière". Le Devoir, September 21, 2016.