Nancy Grant

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For the All My Children character, see Nancy Grant (All My Children).
Grant at the 2015 César Awards

Nancy Grant is a French-Québécois Canadian film producer. She was born in the small village of

Félix et Meira (2014), which have received numerous awards at institutions including the Toronto International Film Festival, Alfred Bauer Berlin International Film Festival, Academy Awards, and Cannes Film Festival
.

In 2014, she was awarded Best Motion Picture for Mommy at the Canadian Screen Awards.

Career

Grant studied psychology and international development at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and graduated in 2005.[1] She founded Metafilms in Montreal in 2003 with Sylvain Corbeil[2] and frequently collaborates with Xavier Dolan and Maxime Giroux.

Grant co-owns the production company Sons of Manual with director Xavier Dolan[3].[4][5]

Tom à la ferme

Grant took the main stage when she collaborated with

2014 Canadian Screen Awards.[8] The psychological thriller follows Tom (played by Dolan himself), a man who has suddenly lost his lover Guillaume, to a remote country home for the funeral where Guillaume's family expects a woman in his place. He decides to keep his relations with Guillaume a secret, but finds himself in an unexpected game with Guillaume's aggressive and curious brother. The film was generally well received as a Hitchcockian Montreal psychological drama thriller, especially in its use of suspense and secrets with country landscapes. Some criticized the film for what they saw as Dolan's self-obsession, as he held the roles of screenwriter, director, co-producer, editor and actor.[9] The film was nominated for 8 awards at the Canadian Screen Awards, and for two at the Venice Film Festival
where it won the FIPRESCI Award.

Mommy

Dolan and Grant continued to collaborate. Shortly after their first project, they produced College Boy, a music video for the French rock band

ADHD as they try to cope with their new life. A new neighbour offers her help as the family searches for hope and balance. 90% of both critics and audiences raved about the film and Dolan's authentic style; "Dolan loves close-ups and he gives his actors every chance to demonstrate their talent for ringing the emotional changes in a single take".[10] The film was shot in a square 1:1 ratio. Dolan said of the choice, "I just wanted to shoot portrait aspect ratio that would allow me to be very close to characters, avoid distractions to the left and right of the frame and have the audience look the characters right in the eye".[11] The film has received over 29 awards internationally.[12]

Grant and Dolan already have another project in progress, Dolan's first English-language film The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, a "showbiz satire with a big-name cast: Jessica Chastain, Kit Harington, Susan Sarandon, and Kathy Bates".[1]

Félix et Meira

While Grant was producing Mommy, she was also producing Felix and Meira, directed by Maxime Giroux. Inspired by a neighbourhood Giroux used to live in with a large Hasidic Jewish population, it is an unconventional romance between a young man mourning his dying father and a young Hasidic wife a few blocks away. It was selected to represent Canada as a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards.[13] Most critics and audiences praised the film for its sensitive depiction of the Hasidic community.[14] It was an authentic depiction of Giroux's former community, with English, French and Yiddish spoken onscreen. The actors were former Hasidic Jews that have left the community, a choice often viewed as courageous.[13] "I learned a lot about my city, the community I live in and [myself] also. And I think that's why I go to the cinema and I think that's why I live — to learn more about other people."[14] The film was produced in indie fashion; it did not have secure funding while filming but the crew still chose to work. "We were shooting it with $500,000, that's it, and we shot in Venice, Italy, and in Brooklyn", explains Grant about producing Félix et Meira at the same time as Mommy.[1][15] The film had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the prestigious Best Canadian Film award, beating Mommy among other films.

Filmography

Year Film Director Credit
2006 One Last Dance Richard Lehun Production Manager
2006 Passage (short) Karl Lemieux Production Manager
2007 All That She Wants (Elle veut le chaos) Denis Côté Production Coordinator/Second Assistant Director
2007 L'appel du vide (short) Albéric Aurtenèche Production Coordinator
2007 Code 13 (short) Mathieu Denis Production Coordinator
2008 Les affluents volume III: la battue (short) Guy Édoin Line Producder
2008 Reviens-tu ce soir? (short) Geneviève Albert Producer
2010 Cinéma des aveugles (short) Daniel Canty Producer
2010 Félix et Malou (short) Sophie Dupuis Producer
2010 Opening Up (M'ouvrir) (short) Albéric Aurtenèche Producer
2010 Silence Lies (Tromper le silence) Julie Hivon Producer, Production Manager
2010 Curling Denis Côté Production Manager
2011 Nuit #1 Anne Émond Producer
2011 Laurentia (Laurentie) Mathieu Denis & Simon Lavoie Producer
2011 Plus rien ne vouloir (short) Anne Émond Producer
2012 Faillir (short) Sophie Dupuis Producer
2012 The Torrent (Le Torrent) Simon Lavoie Associate Producer and Production Manager
2013 La tête en bas (short) Maxime Giroux Producer
2013 Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) Xavier Dolan Executive Producer
2013 An Extraordinary Person (Quelqu'un d'extraordinaire) (short) Monia Chokri Producer
2013 Acrobat (short) Eduardo Menz Producer
2013 "College Boy" (Indochine) short Xavier Dolan Executive Producer
2013 Vic and Flo Saw a Bear (Vic + flo ont vu un ours) Denis Côté Associate Producer
2013 Diego Star Frédérick Pelletier Producer
2014 Felix and Meira (Félix et Meira) Maxime Giroux Producer
2014 Mommy Xavier Dolan Producer
2014 Joy of Man's Desiring (Que ta joie demeure) (documentary)[16] Denis Côté Producer
2015 Our Loved Ones (Les êtres chers) Anne Émond Producer (with Sylvain Corbeil)
2016 Shambles (Maudite poutine) Karl Lemieux Producer
2016 It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) Xavier Dolan Producer
2017
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
 		Xavier Dolan Producer
2022 Falcon Lake Charlotte Le Bon Producer
The Night Logan Woke Up (La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé) Xavier Dolan Producer
2021 Charlotte Éric Warin and Tahir Rana Executive producer[17]
2023 The Nature of Love (Simple comme Sylvain) Monia Chokri Producer
The Beast Bertrand Bonello Co-producer[18]

Awards and nominations

Grant won the Best Film award at the 17th Jutra Awards for her production of Mommy. The film was included in Canada's Top Ten feature films of 2014 selected by filmmakers and industry professionals at TIFF.[19] She was also awarded the 2014 CMPA Feature Film Producer's Award.[20]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e A rising star in Quebec film Archived May 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, McGill News, April 14, 2015.
  2. ^ "Metafilms". metafilms.ca. Archived from the original on May 1, 2019. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  3. ^ Lattanzio, Ryan (April 28, 2015). "Xavier Dolan Lands Dream Team for French-Language 'It's Only the End of the World'". Indiewire. Archived from the original on August 28, 2022. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  4. UniFrance. Archived
    from the original on August 28, 2022. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  5. ^ "Sons of Manual". Films du Québec (in French). Archived from the original on August 28, 2022. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  6. ^ "A rising star in Quebec film : McGill News". publications.mcgill.ca. Archived from the original on May 3, 2016. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  7. ^ "Venice film festival 2013: the full line-up". the Guardian. July 25, 2013. Archived from the original on June 20, 2018. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  8. ^ "Canadian Screen Awards: Orphan Black, Less Than Kind, Enemy nominated". www.cbc.ca. Archived from the original on March 31, 2018. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  9. ^ "Tom at the Farm: Venice Review". The Hollywood Reporter. September 2, 2013. Archived from the original on September 28, 2015. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
  10. ^ "Mommy". www.rottentomatoes.com. January 23, 2015. Archived from the original on October 26, 2015. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  11. ^ "Why Xavier Dolan's 'Mommy' Was Shot as a Perfect Square". The Hollywood Reporter. January 8, 2015. Archived from the original on April 12, 2015. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  12. ^ "Mommy - Awards- IMDb". IMDb. Archived from the original on May 3, 2015. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  13. ^ a b "Telefilm Canada announces that Félix et Meira is Canada's selection for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2016 - Telefilm Canada". www.telefilm.ca. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
  14. ^ a b "Félix et Meira tapped as Canada's Oscar foreign-language film contender". www.cbc.ca. Archived from the original on October 27, 2017. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  15. ^ Duchesne, André (October 25, 2013). "Tournage de Félix et Meira: un amour impossible | André Duchesne | Cinéma québécois". La Presse (in Canadian French). Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved October 13, 2015.
  16. ^ Nancy Grant CV Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved October 4, 2015.
  17. ^ Yuma, Jennifer (July 21, 2021). "Keira Knightley to Voice Toronto-Premiering Animated Drama 'Charlotte'". Variety. Archived from the original on July 21, 2021.
  18. ^ "La Bête". Ad Vitam (in French). Archived from the original on August 6, 2023. Retrieved August 5, 2023.
  19. ^ TIFF's Top Ten Film Festival: Spotlight on Canadian film Archived December 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine", Linda Barnard (1 December 2014). Toronto Star. Retrieved 04 October 2015.
  20. ^ Nancy Grant wins CMPA Producer's Award Archived May 30, 2015, at the Wayback Machine", Katie Bailey (September 5, 2014). Toronto Star. Retrieved October 4, 2015.

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