Incarnat — Piano-Film

Charles Grenier was born somewhere between Christmas and New Year’s Day 1988. Aside from being stuck between two holidays, Charles is a director and editor.

After completing a bachelor’s degree in film production and a minor in philosophy at Concordia University in 2010, he edited more than a dozen short films including Amen by Marie-Hélène Viens and Philippe Lupien (Regard sur le court-métrage) and Mon Boy by Sarah Pellerin (TIFF). For the web, he edited the first season of Écrivain public, directed by Hervé Baillargeon, and won the best editing award at the Marseille Web Fest for Féminin Féminin by Chloé Robichaud.

As a director, his work, whether comedic or dramatic, relies on the unspoken and on evocative and meaningful images. Whether he is exploring escapism (Étanche, 2013, Edinburgh Int. Film Festival), coming-of-age (Chelem, 2015, Raindance & Seattle Int. Film Festival), or the awakening of sexuality (Slurpee, 2016, Dresden & Palm Springs), his vision remains honest and sensitive. His most recent short film, Le ver, 2018 (FNC & FCIAT), combines fantasy storytelling with a reflection on the mysteries of filiation and heritage.

He recently signed on to direct the web series Georges est mort online at télé-québec.tv, and is working with Sarah Pellerin to develop the second season.

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Le ver (2018) ; Slurpee (2016) ; Chelem (2015) ; La Canadienne française (2014 ; Étanche (2013).

Philippe Cyr holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from the École supérieure de théâtre de l’UQAM. He made his debut at Théâtre Prospero, where he directed his first plays. In 2012, he founded the theater company L’Homme allumette, with which he created at the Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui an adaptation of the poetic text Les cendres bleues by Jean-Paul Daoust, Selfie by Sarah Berthiaume and Le brasier by David Paquet. With Gilles Poulin-Denis, he created Ce qu’on attend de moi, a co-production of his company and 2PAR4 presented in Montreal (Théâtre Aux Écuries and Usine C), Ottawa (La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardins, by the NAC French Theatre and the Théâtre du Trillium) and Vancouver (Théâtre La Seizième). He also works with other companies for which he directs Le iShow (Les petites cellules chaudes), Unité modèle by Guillaume Corbeil (La Seizième) and Prouesses et épouvantables digestions du redouté Pantagruel, a text by Gabriel Plante after the work of Rabelais (Théâtre Denise-Pelletier). For the documentary theater company Porte Parole, directed by Annabel Soutar, he is directing Christine Beaulieu’s acclaimed saga J’aime Hydro (presented at the NAC in November 2019).Philippe Cyr is also an associate artist at Usine C.

Biographies have been provided by third parties.