Sylvain Guy

Sylvain Guy is a Canadian screenwriter and film director from Quebec. He is most noted for the 2004 film Machine Gun Molly , for which he and Luc Dionne won the Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 25th [Genie Awards] in 2005. He was also previously nominated in the same category for Black [List (1995 film)|Black List] at the 16th Genie Awards in 1996, and subsequently at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for Confessions of a Hitman .
His first film as a director, the short film Zie 37 Stagen, was a Genie nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 18th Genie Awards in 1997. His feature film debut, The List, was an English-language remake of Liste noire.
He subsequently directed the feature films Detour and The Ultimate Pranx Case, and wrote the screenplays for the films Louis Cyr, Mafia Inc., Confessions of a Hitman and Victoire .
In 2020 he was announced as the writer of a forthcoming biopic of Quebec singer Diane Dufresne.
He wrote the 2023 television series Mégantic.