Stéphane Lafleur


Stéphane Lafleur
is a French-Canadian film director, editor and musician.

Career

Lafleur attended the Université du Québec à Montréal. In 1999, he directed his first short film, Karaoke, which received an honorable mention for the Best Canadian Short Film award at the 1999 Toronto International Film Festival. He released his second short film, Snooze, in 2002.
In 2007, he directed his first feature film, Continental, a Film Without Guns , which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The film won the Jutra Award for direction and screenwriting as well as the Best Canadian First Feature at TIFF.
His second film, Familiar Grounds , was released in 2011. In the same year, he collaborated with musicians Andre Ethier, Mathieu Charbonneau and Rebecca Foon on Prince Albert, a short film released as part of the National Parks Project.
His third feature film, You're Sleeping, Nicole , premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
As an editor, he won the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Editing in 2011 for Monsieur Lazhar.
As a musician, he is a member of the folk-rock band Avec pas d'casque.

Filmography

As director