Comme une vague

Marie-Julie Dallaire is a director in film, television and advertising. She directed Big Giant Wave, an art documentary on the power of music, with Jean-Marc Vallée as executive producer. In 2020, during the pandemic, she directed the short film Jules’ impossible summer (NFB). In 2015, she directed the second unit on Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival. In 2009, she directed Un monde sans pitié, a television series nominated at Les Prix Gémeaux. She also wrote and directed three episodes of the television series Le Québec en 12 lieux. In 2007, Father / Notre père, her portrait of ​“Pops”, the founder of Montreal charitable organization Dans la rue, was nominated at the Jutra Awards, and won the Alex and Ruth Dworkin Foundation Award. Her documentary Marie-Antoinette sur fond vert was named Best Documentary, Culture, at Les Prix Gémeaux. In the 2000s, she contributed to the collective feature film Un cri au bonheur. She was one of the few women in Quebec at this time to direct television commercials. In 1996, she was one of the directors of the fiction feature Cosmos, which was awarded at the Directors’ Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival. She launched her career with Quebec television phenomenon La Course Destination Monde in the early nineties.

Biographical notes provided by the film production team

Selected films:
Jules’ Impossible Summer (2020)
Le Québec en 12 lieux (2009−2010)
Un monde sans pitié (2008−2009)
Un cri au bonheur (2008)
Notre père / Father (2006−2007)
Marie-Antoinette sur fond vert (2007)