François Girard - Фильмы

Франсуа Жирар (born January 12, 1963) is a French-Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative фильм 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, Грузов; he attained international recognition following his 1993 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, a series of миниатюры about the life of piano prodigy Гленна Гульда. 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, тринадцать Genie Awards and nine Jutra Awards. He has also directed various works for the stage, including Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, царь эдип 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; Зигфрид 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 общежитие, Peter Gabriel's Secret World and The Sound of the Carceri, one of the six episodes of Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach.