Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Félix Dufour-Laperrière (born 1981) is a Canadian animator, film director and screenwriter from Chicoutimi, Quebec. He is most noted for his 2021 film Archipelago (Archipel), which was the winner of the Prix Luc-Perreault from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma at the 2022 Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma.
Félix Dufour-Laperrière | |
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| Born | 1981 (age 42–43) Chicoutimi, Quebec |
| Occupation(s) | film director, animator |
| Years active | 2000s-present |
| Notable work | Ville Neuve, Archipelago |
He also received two Prix Iris nominations for the film at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022, for Best Documentary Film and Best Editing in a Documentary.
Dufour made a number of short films before releasing his debut feature documentary film, Transatlantic (Transatlantique), in 2014. He was a four-time Jutra Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film, receiving nods at the 6th Jutra Awards in 2004 for Black Ink on Blue Sky (Encre noire sur fond d'azur), the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009 for Rosa Rosa, the 12th Jutra Awards in 2010 for M, and the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014 for The Day Is Listening (Le jour nous écoute).
His narrative feature debut, Ville Neuve, was a nominee for the DGC Discovery Award in 2018.
He is the brother of producer Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière, with whom he cofounded the studio Embuscade Films.