Léa Pool
| Léa Pool | |
|---|---|
| Born |
8 September 1950 Soglio, Switzerland |
| Occupation |
Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1978 - present |
Léa Pool (born 8 September 1950) is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who has also taught film at UQAM. Her 1986 film Anne Trister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.[1] Her 1999 film Emporte-moi was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival[2] where it won the Special Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.[3]
Life and career
Pool was born in Soglio,[4] Switzerland,[5] and raised there, in Lausanne. Her father was Jewish, and was a Holocaust survivor from Poland. Her mother's family was Christian and Swiss.[6][7]
Her film À corps perdu (1988) was selected for official competition in the Venice Film Festival and her film Mouvements du désir (1994) was screened at the Sundance Film Festival.[8] She has been nominated 3 times for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction for her films La Femme de l'hôtel (1984), Mouvements du désir (1994), and Emporte-moi (1999).
In 2006 she was awarded the Prix Albert-Tessier. In 2011, Pool completed the National Film Board of Canada documentary film Pink Ribbons, Inc., partly based on the 2006 book Pink Ribbons, Inc: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy, which is premiering at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.[9]
Filmography
- Strass Cafè (1980)
- La Femme de l'hôtel (1984)
- Anne Trister (1986)
- À corps perdu (1988)
- Montréal vu par... (1991, segment "Rispondetemi")
- The Savage Woman (La Demoiselle sauvage) (1991)
- Mouvements du désir (1994)
- Emporte-moi (1999)
- Lost and Delirious (2001)
- The Blue Butterfly (2004)
- Maman est chez le coiffeur (TV movie, 2008)
- La dernière fugue (2010)
- Pink Ribbons, Inc. (2011)
- The Passion of Augustine (2015)
References
- ↑ "Berlinale: 1986 Programme".
- ↑ "Berlinale: 1999 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
- ↑ "IMDb - Berlin International Film Festival (1999)".
- ↑ http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/030001-1262-e.html
- ↑ "Canadian Film Encyclopedia - Léa Pool".
- ↑ http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/article/lost_no_more_20010706/
- ↑ http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Lea+Pool%3A+no+frontiers.-a030138183
- ↑ "Léa Pool - Northern Stars".
- ↑ Barnard, Linda (30 August 2011). "TIFF reviews: 34 films and counting". Toronto Star. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
- ↑ Matthew Hays, The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers
External links
- Léa Pool at the Internet Movie Database