Pre-Drink is a Canadian dramatic short film by Marc-Antoine Lemire, which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.[1]
| Pre-Drink | |
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| Directed by | Marc-Antoine Lemire |
| Produced by | Maria Gracia Turgeon Marc-Antoine Lemire |
| Starring | Alex Trahan Pascale Drevillon |
| Cinematography | Léna Mill-Reuillard |
| Edited by | Anouk Deschênes |
Production companies | Les films de la Méduse Midi la Nuit |
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Running time | 23 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
The film stars Alex Trahan as Carl and Pascale Drevillon as Alexe, a gay man and a transgender woman whose longtime friendship is complicated when they drunkenly decide to have sex.[2]
In December, TIFF named the film to its annual Canada's Top Ten list of the ten best Canadian short films.[3] The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards,[4] and won the Prix Iris for Best Short Film at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri takes home TIFF's top honour". CBC News, September 17, 2017.
- ^ "Pre-Drink". Toronto International Film Festival.
- ^ "Canada's Top Ten has some glaring omissions" Archived 2017-12-07 at the Wayback Machine. Now, December 6, 2017.
- ^ "Finalistes des Prix Écrans canadiens 2018". Films du Québec, January 16, 2018.
- ^ "Les affamés et Robin Aubert triomphent au Gala Québec Cinéma". Ici Radio-Canada, June 3, 2018.
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