Sylvain Guy is a Canadian screenwriter and film director from Quebec. He is most noted for the 2004 film Machine Gun Molly (Monica la mitraille), for which he and Luc Dionne won the Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 25th Genie Awards in 2005.[1] He was also previously nominated in the same category for Black List (Liste noire) at the 16th Genie Awards in 1996,[2] and subsequently at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for Confessions of a Hitman (Confessions).[3]
His first film as a director, the short film Zie 37 Stagen, was a Genie nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 18th Genie Awards in 1997.[4] His feature film debut, The List, was an English-language remake of Liste noire.[5]
He subsequently directed the feature films Detour (2009)[6] and The Ultimate Pranx Case (2012), and wrote the screenplays for the films Louis Cyr,[7] Mafia Inc.,[8] Confessions of a Hitman[9] and Victoire (La Cordonnière).[10]
In 2020 he was announced as the writer of a forthcoming biopic of Quebec singer Diane Dufresne.[11]
References
edit- ^ John McKay, "French-language cinema big winner at Genie Awards". Peterborough Examiner, March 22, 2005.
- ^ "Nominees for the 1995 Genie Awards". Canadian Press, November 7, 1995.
- ^ Brent Furdyk, "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack". ET Canada, February 15, 2022.
- ^ Doug Saunders, "Egoyan film leads Genie race: The Sweet Hereafter picks up nominations for Canada's film awards". The Globe and Mail, November 5, 1997.
- ^ Matthew Hays, "English remake casts stars: Quebec screenwriter directs new version". The Globe and Mail, July 30, 1999.
- ^ Valérie Lessard, "Détour, ou le retour à l'état sauvage". Le Droit, September 18, 2009.
- ^ Brendan Kelly, "No one man should have all that power; Antoine Bertrand carries the new biopic of strongman Louis Cyr, but he wouldn't have had to if other characters were stronger". Montreal Gazette, July 12, 2013.
- ^ Alex Rose, "Mafia Inc. digs into the rich criminal history of Montreal". Cult MTL, February 13, 2020.
- ^ André Duchesne, "Premières images du film Confessions". La Presse, February 19, 2021.
- ^ Maxime Demers, "Critique de «La cordonnière»: un film réussi sur le plan technique, mais...". Le Journal de Montréal, March 16, 2023.
- ^ "Diane Dufresne aura droit à sa biographie au cinéma". Canadian Press, November 19, 2020.
- ^ Guillaume Picard, "«Mégantic»: une œuvre chorale profondément humaine et touchante". Le Journal de Québec, February 7, 2023.
External links
edit- Sylvain Guy at IMDb