Sophie Deraspe

One of the leading figures of new Canadian cinema, Sophie Deraspe fell in love with cinema through her Visual Arts and Literature studies. As both a filmmaker and cinematographer, she worked primarily within the realms of documentary before making her first feature, Rechercher Victor Pellerin/Missing Victor Pellerin (2006). Her second feature, Les signes vitaux/Vital Signs (2009), was in IFFR's Tiger Competition and she won the FIPRESCI award at Torino Film Festival for Les loups (2015). The documentary Le profil Amina/A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile (2015) was nominated in the World Cinema Documentary at Sundance and won the Special Jury Prize at Hot Docs. Antigone (2019) was chosen as Best Canadian Feature at the Toronto International Film Festival and Best Motion Picture at the Canadian Screen Awards. It also represented Canada at the Oscars 2020 in the race for best International Feature Films Nominated in 15 categories, her first TV series Bête Noire (2021) won four Gémeaux Awards, including Best TV Drama Series and Best Director (Drama series). The US, Australia, France and Norway bought the broadcasting rights and more countries will be added soon.