François Girard

Directing·Jan 12, 1963·St-Felicien, Quebec, Canada

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François Girard (born January 12, 1963) is a French-Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Born in Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit. In 1990, he produced his first feature film, Cargo; he attained international recognition following his 1993 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, a series of vignettes about the life of piano prodigy Glenn Gould. In 1998, he wrote and directed The Red Violin, which follows the ownership of a red violin over several centuries. The Red Violin won an Academy Award for Best Original Soundtrack, thirteen Genie Awards and nine Jutra Awards. He has also directed various works for the stage, including Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, Oedipus Rex and Novencento at the Edinburgh International Festival; Kafka's The Trial at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa; the oratorio Lost Objects at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Siegfried in Toronto; and The Lindbergh Flight and The Seven Deadly Sins, first in Lyon and then in Edinburgh. Girard has also produced a residency show for Cirque du Soleil, Zed , in Tokyo and Zarkana, which will open at Radio City Music Hall in New York in the summer of 2011. His television credits include Le dortoir, Peter Gabriel's Secret World and The Sound of the Carceri, one of the six episodes of Yo Yo Ma Inspired by Bach. Description above from the Wikipedia article François Girard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Film	Credit
猟銃2023 · Director	Director
The Metropolitan Opera: Lohengrin2023 · Director	Director
The Metropolitan Opera: The Flying Dutchman2020 · Director	Director
The Song of Names2019 · Director	Director
Le cri du rhinocéros2018 · Self	Self
Hochelaga, Land of Souls2017 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Cirque du Soleil: Zarkana2016 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Le silence est d'or2016 · Actor	Actor
Boychoir2015 · Director	Director
Cirque du Soleil: Zed in Tokyo2013 · Himself, Writer	Himself, Writer
Parsifal2013 · Director	Director
Cirque du Soleil: The Surreal World of Zarkana2011 · Himself, Director	Himself, Director
Silk2007 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche2004 · elf	elf
The Red Violin1998 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Last Night1998 · Wild Guy #1	Wild Guy #1
Bach Cello Suite #2: The Sound of the Carceri1997 · Director	Director
Souvenirs d'Othello1995 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Peter Gabriel: Secret World Live1994 · Director	Director
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould1993 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
LLe Dortoir1991 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Cargo1990 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Le Train1985 · Director	Director