Summary
Jeffrey St. Jules is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, who won the Claude Jutra Award in 2015 for his debut feature film Bang Bang Baby.[1] The film also won the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.[2]
Jeffrey St. Jules | |
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| Born | Fall River, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 2000s-present |
| Known for | Bang Bang Baby |
Career edit
Originally from Fall River, Nova Scotia,[3] St. Jules studied creative writing and film at Concordia University.[3] Prior to making Bang Bang Baby, St. Jules wrote and directed a number of short films, including The Sadness of Johnson Joe Jangles, The Tragic Story of Nling, The Long Autumn,[4] Let the Daylight Into the Swamp and a music video for Apostle of Hustle's "National Anthem of Nowhere".
He won the Jackson-Triggs Award for Best Emerging Canadian Filmmaker at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival in 2005 for Joe Jangles,[5] and in the same year became the first Canadian film director ever admitted to the Cannes Film Festival's residency program for emerging filmmakers.[6] The Tragic Story of Nling was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 28th Genie Awards. Let the Daylight into the Swamp, an experimental documentary film about his grandparents,[7] was a shortlisted nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards.
His second full-length feature film, Cinema of Sleep,[4] was released in 2021.[8] St. Jules received a nomination for the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film.[9]
References edit
- ^ "Academy Names Claude Jutra Award Winner" Archived 2015-02-04 at the Wayback Machine. Broadcaster, February 3, 2015.
- ^ "‘The Imitation Game’ Wins Toronto Audience Award". The Wrap, September 14, 2014.
- ^ a b "TIFF 2014: Jeffrey St. Jules, Canada’s master of the surreal short film, tries on long form for size". The Globe and Mail, September 4, 2014.
- ^ a b "Inferno lights up Cinema of Sleep" by Lauren Malyk at playbackonline.ca
- ^ "Short film festival long on prizes". National Post, June 21, 2005.
- ^ "His big Bang theories". National Post, September 6, 2014.
- ^ "Into the swamp of family memory: Filmmaker uses poetry, humour to recount relatives' hurtful history". Toronto Star, September 13, 2012.
- ^ Andy Howell, "Cinema of Sleep". Film Threat, April 13, 2021.
- ^ Kelly Townsend, "All My Puny Sorrows leads film nominees for 2021 DGC Awards". Playback, September 24, 2021.
External links edit
- Jeffrey St. Jules at IMDb