My Name Is Victor Gazon

My Name Is Victor Gazon (French: Mon nom est Victor Gazon) is a Canadian short comedy-drama film, directed by Patrick Gazé and released in 2008.[1] The film stars Claudel Poirier as the titular Victor Gazon, a young boy enumerating the pros and cons of living for a suicide prevention project at school, soon after his own uncle has committed suicide.[2]

My Name Is Victor Gazon
Mon nom est Victor Gazon
Directed byPatrick Gazé
Produced byAntonello Cozzolino
Marie-Josée Larocque
Annie Normandin
Written byPatrick Gazé
StarringClaudel Poirier
Jassen Charron
CinematographyNicolas Bolduc
Edited byPatrick Gazé
Production
company
Facteur 7
Distributed byDisk4t Distribution
Release date
2008
Running time
11 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2008.[3] It was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 29th Genie Awards,[4] and a Prix Jutra nominee for Best Short Film at the 11th Jutra Awards.[5]

References

  1. "Mon nom est Victor Gazon". Le Quotidien, March 8, 2012.
  2. "Short and sweet". The Varsity, January 29, 2009.
  3. Glenn Sumi, "Feting the best of the year". Now, December 17, 2008.
  4. Peter Knegt, "“Necessities of Life” Leads Genie Nods". IndieWire, February 10, 2009.
  5. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Jutra 2009: Ce qu’il faut pour vivre illumine la soirée". Films du Québec, April 2, 2009.


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