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Sébastien Pilote (born 1973 in Saint-Ambroise, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards for his 2013 film The Dismantling (Le Démantèlement) .
Sébastien Pilote, né à Chicoutimi dans la région de Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean [1], est un réalisateur québécois de cinéma. En 2007, Dust Bowl Ha! Ha!, un court métrage, est sélectionné au Festival international du film de Locarno.
Sébastien Pilote. Director: The Salesman. Sébastien Pilote was born in Saint-Ambroise, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada. He is known for The Salesman (2011), The Auction (2013) and The Fireflies Are Gone (2018).
- Director, Writer, Actor
- Sébastien Pilote
Interview with Sébastien Pilote for The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles) - presented at the 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival.
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- IONCINEMA
- Adapting Hémon
- Casting Maria Chapdelaine
- François, Eutrope, and Lorenzo
- Respecting History
- The Poetry of Life
The film is the result of an eight-year production as Pilote began writing the screenplay during his work with 2013’s The Auction (Le démantèlement) and principle photography running through the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming resumed as the first major Canadian production to pick back up with protocols in place. Obviously, these are c...
Pilote’s sentiment about Maria’s sense of duty is a compliment because she reminds him of his mother. “My mother stopped going to school very early,” explains Pilote. “Her family lived very far from the nearest village, and had no electricity. I recognize my mother in Maria because she’s very free and she’s a fighter.” Casting the ideal Maria Chapd...
When it comes to casting the three younger male actors, Pilote says he took a different approach while pairing Montpetit with some of Quebec’s biggest stars. “I wondered if it was possible to put the actors in any of the three roles,” explains Pilote. “The three guys are the same.” François, Eutrope, and Lorenzo represent different value systems, y...
These themes often arise as François regales Maria with tales about his work as a woodsman. His stories tell of encounters and brotherly bonds he developed with the Indigenous tribes in the area. Maria Chapdelaineis a portrait of settler life in Quebec, but Pilote’s adaptation lets contemporary sensibilities subtly acknowledge the presence of Indig...
The striking realism of Maria Chapdelaine, especially as pertains to the tireless work ethic and remote living, evokes the poetry of daily life seen in the work of Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault, notably their canonical film Pour la suite du monde. The 1962 about the revival of a traditional fishing practice in a small village along the St. Lawr...
Sep 24, 2021 · Maria Chapdelaine: Directed by Sébastien Pilote. With Sara Montpetit, Sébastien Ricard, Hélène Florent, Antoine Olivier Pilon. Maria, teen of a pioneer family in Québec, is coming of age and a few young men show interest.
Le Démantèlement by Sébastien Pilote is an outing reminiscent of the great classics of American cinema, in which the changing colours of the landscape reflects the characters' emotions and the rhythm is echoed in a breath.
