Pascal Plante
Pascal Plante is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, whose debut feature film, Fake Tattoos , premiered in 2017. His second film, Nadia, Butterfly, was released in 2020. His third feature film, Red Rooms, garnered widespread critical acclaim.
Career
Plante's first IMDb film credit was as a sound recordist in 2006. He continued to work in the sound department until the early 2010s, when he transitioned into directing and writing. He wrote and directed several short films before completing his first feature film, titled Fake Tattoos , in 2017. Plante won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Canadian Screenplay at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017, and the film's lead actress Rose-Marie Perreault received a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018, and a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.His second feature film Nadia, Butterfly was an official selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, before the festival was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Plante is a former competitive swimmer who tried out, but did not qualify, to represent Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and subsequently studied film at Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.
He has also directed the short films La fleur de l'âge, Je suis un château de sable qui attend la mer, Baby Blues, Drum de marde!, Blue-Eyed Blonde, Nonna and Blast Beat, and has worked as a sound mixer and editor on other film projects.
His third feature film, Red Rooms , premiered at the 2023 Karlovy Vary Film Festival. It subsequently had its Canadian premiere at the 2023 Fantasia Film Festival, where it won several awards including Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Score and Best Performance. The film received widespread critical acclaim upon release.
In 2024 he served as the programmer of the Festival Vues dans la tête de....