Louis Bélanger


Louis Bélanger is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has a degree in communications from UQAM. He is a close friend and collaborator of filmmaker Denis Chouinard; both men created several short films together before branching off into their own careers with feature films. His film Post Mortem won him Best Director at the Montreal [World Film Festival] and earned him two Genie Awards, for best new director and best screenplay.
He began making films and long-form videos while still a student. He shot videos for Télévision Suisse Romande in the late 1990s before turning to directing his first feature, the multi-award winning Post Mortem in 1999. His follow-up was Lauzon-Lauzone, a documentary about the late bad-boy director Jean-Claude Lauzon, and a second feature in 2003, the very assured and mature Gaz Bar Blues. Influenced by the man-of-the-people-docudrama style of John Cassavetes and Ken Loach, he has said that "there aren’t any new stories to tell; all that matters is the telling."

Filmography

Feature films