Brigitte Poupart
NOMINATED: Best Acting Performance Female
MOVIE: Les Salopes or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin
BIOGRAFIA:
She is a multidisciplinary artist. She has played in numerous theatrical productions for both mainstream and alternative productions. On the big screen, she was featured in Philippe Falardeau’s Oscar® nominated M. Lazhar and was the lead role in Robin Aubert’s feature film Les Affamés, which won the Best Canadian Feature Film at TIFF 2017. As director, she is known for creating large-scale musicals. In 2016, she directed Cirque du Soleil’s Luzia. She directed the feature documentary Over my dead body, which was selected as part of the “The Contenders 2012”, a prestigious selection of the best films of the year, chosen by the film department of the Museum of Modern Arts (MoMA) in New York. In May 2017 in Cannes, she presented her virtual reality project Ma réserve, a fiction film shot using a 360-degree camera she developed with Normal Studio.
