Pascal Plante

Pascal Plante is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec,[1] whose debut feature film, Fake Tattoos (Les faux tatouages), premiered in 2017.[2]

He won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Canadian Screenplay at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017,[3] and the film's lead actress Rose-Marie Perreault received a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018,[4] and a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.[5]

His second feature film Nadia, Butterfly was announced as an official selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.[6]

Plante is a former competitive swimmer who tried out, but did not qualify, to represent Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics,[6] and subsequently studied film at Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.[7]

He has also directed the short films La fleur de l'âge, Je suis un château de sable qui attend la mer, Baby Blues, Drum de marde!, Blue-Eyed Blonde, Nonna and Blast Beat, and has worked as a sound mixer and editor on other film projects.

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