{"id":182311,"date":"2018-09-20T06:55:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=182311"},"modified":"2018-09-20T07:14:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T11:14:57","slug":"chien-de-garde-gets-canadas-oscar-nod-category-best-foreign-language-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/20\/chien-de-garde-gets-canadas-oscar-nod-category-best-foreign-language-film\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Chien de garde’ gets Canada’s Oscar nod in category of best foreign language film"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“It will maybe help them to . . . have their voice heard.” (Photo: CHIEN DE GARDE<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MONTREAL \u2014 A Quebec filmmaker whose first feature was selected Wednesday to represent\u00a0Canada\u00a0in the Oscars’ foreign-language film category says the choice should be a boost for the country’s female directors.<\/p>\n

“I’m very proud becasue I think there are a lot of young women directors with big talent who are now ready to shoot their first feature film,” Sophie Dupuis said after Telefilm\u00a0Canada’s announcement.<\/p>\n

“It will maybe help them to . . . have their voice heard.”<\/p>\n

Dupuis, a native of Val-d’Or who is in her early 30s, directed “Chien de Garde” (“Family First”) on a budget of about $1.5 million. It is a crime drama centred in Montreal’s Verdun neighbourhood about a young man involved in a drug cartel run by his uncle.<\/p>\n

Starring Jean-Simon Leduc, Theodore Pellerin, Maude Guerin, Paul Ahmarani and Claudel Laberge, it was considered a dark horse up against Canadian film legend Denys Arcand’s “The Fall of the American Empire.” Arcand is the only Canadian director to have won the best foreign film Oscar.<\/p>\n

Dupuis said she was on her way to the grocery store two hours before the official announcement when she received the call to say her film had been chosen.<\/p>\n

“I was sure it wasn’t going to be us,” she said. When she informed cast members, they first thought she was joking and then, “they were screaming.”<\/p>\n

Christa Dickenson, Telefilm’s executive director, said that at a time when “gender parity is on the tips of everybody’s tongues,” it was “exciting” to see a female director chosen.<\/p>\n

“Chien de Garde” will now compete with films from dozens of other countries for a spot on the list of official Oscar nominations.<\/p>\n

The ceremony is set for Feb. 24 in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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