Jeffrey St. Jules

Jeffrey St. Jules
Born Fall River, Nova Scotia
Nationality Canadian
Occupation film director, screenwriter
Years active 2000s-present
Known for Bang Bang Baby

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]

Career

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, 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,[4] and in the same year became the first Canadian film director ever admitted to the Cannes Film Festival's residency program for emerging filmmakers.[5] 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,[6] was a shortlisted nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards.

References

  1. ↑ "Academy Names Claude Jutra Award Winner". Broadcaster, February 3, 2015.
  2. ↑ "‘The Imitation Game’ Wins Toronto Audience Award". The Wrap, September 14, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "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.
  4. ↑ "Short film festival long on prizes". National Post, June 21, 2005.
  5. ↑ "His big Bang theories". National Post, September 6, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Into the swamp of family memory: Filmmaker uses poetry, humour to recount relatives' hurtful history". Toronto Star, September 13, 2012.

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