François Girard

François Girard (born January 12, 1963 in Saint-Félicien , Québec , Canada ) is a Canadian director and screenwriter .

Life and accomplishments

His grandfather was a musician. His older sister Doris Girard (* 1956) is a film producer. François Girard studied music and started his professional career with music videos . He assisted in the film Die Frau im Hotel (1984) directed by Léa Pool . In the mid-1980s he founded Zone Productions and created short and commercials. He worked with Peter Gabriel on the concert recording Secret World Live (1994) . From the 1990s Girard dared to make movies, for example 32 Variations on Glenn Gould (1993) with Colm Feore in the title role. The best known is his episode film The Red Violin , whose score was awarded an Oscar in 2000 by John Corigliano .

Girard has been honored at various awards, including the 1993 Genie Award for directing 32 variations on Glenn Gould and a special jury mention for the best Canadian feature film at the Toronto International Film Festival . This film was also nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 1995 Independent Spirit Awards . In 1996 Girard won the Grammy Award for Secret World Live for best music video along with others . In 1998 he received the Best Artistic Contribution Award for The Red Violin at the Tokyo International Film Festival . In 1999 he received two Genie Awards and twice the Prix ​​Jutra , each for best director and best screenplay for The Red Violin .

On stage, Girard worked as the opera director of the Psalm symphony ( Symphony of Psalms ) by Igor Stravinski and by Oedipus Rex von Stravinski and Jean Cocteau . In 2013, he also directed Richard Wagner's Parsifal at the MET.

Filmography

Director

• 1990: Cargo
• 1993: Le Jardin des ombres
• 1993: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (32 Variations on Glenn Gould )
• 1994: Secret World Live
• 1997: Bach Cello Suite # 2: The Sound of Carceri
• 1997: Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach (six-part television series)
• 1998: The red violin ( Le Violon rouge )
• 2007: Silk ( Silk )
• 2014: The Choir - Voices of the Heart ( Boychoir )
• 2019: The Song of Names

Screenwriter

• 1990: Cargo
• 1993: Le Jardin des ombres
• 1993: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (32 Variations on Glenn Gould )
• 1998: The red violin ( Le Violon rouge )
• 2007: Silk ( Silk )

actor

• 1998: The last night ( Last Night )
• 2019: From Watering the Lemon Tree (It Must Be Heaven)

Web links

• François Girard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography in the Canadian Encyclopedia (English)
• François Girard at filmreference (English)