Jason Lapeyre

Jason Lapeyre

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Jason Lapeyre is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. His first feature, Cold Blooded, won Best Canadian Film at the Fantasia film festival, and his second feature, I Declare War, was an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival and won the Audience Award for Best Film at Fantastic Fest. It was released theatrically by Drafthouse Films. He also directed the documentary film Faceless, about an inpatient psychiatry unit. Most recently he directed the digital series Warigami, a samurai drama which premiered at Canneseries.

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Jason Lapeyre

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The Lockpicker
Producer
A teenage thief tries to leave town to escape the violence that threatens him and he people he loves.
¿Quién mató a Jonbenet?
Director
Basada en hechos reales. Jonbenet es una niña famosa por ser siempre la ganadora de los concursos de belleza norteamericanos y con tan solo 6 años se ha convertido en una estrella mediática de la televisión. El 26 de diciembre de 1996, cuando su madre va a despertarla, Joanbenet ha desaparecido. En la escalera hallan una nota de rescate exigiendo 118.000 dólares. La policía se presenta en el domicilio para iniciar la investigación pero el trasiego de amigos y familiares contaminan el escenario. Transcurridas ocho horas desde su secuestro, el padre descubre el cadáver de su hija en el sótano de su casa.
Cold Deck
Writer
When a poker player hits rock bottom he enlists his best friend to pull off a high-stakes heist.
The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer
Production Consultant
This short animation presents the haunting story of two brothers who share the scars, though not the memories, of an untold history that has driven them to existential extremes.
Salvados por la campana: Detrás de las cámaras
Director
The Noauthorized Saved by the Bell Story profundiza en las experiencias de seis actores jóvenes desconocidos puestos en el punto de mira de Hollywood, exponiendo los desafíos de crecer bajo el escrutinio público
Portrait as a Random Act of Violence
Producer
Evoking themes of protest, destruction, and resurrection, this beguiling new work from visual artist Randall Okita transposes three-dimensional kinetic sculptures to the cinema screen.
Vírgenes inquietas
Director
Emily es una estudiante que descubre un video sexual donde aparecen cinco miembros del equipo de lacrosse. Cuando Emily saca a la luz el video, se convierte en un escándalo en todo el país que lleva a la expulsión de varios estudiantes.
Faceless
Producer
Faceless is a documentary film about the workings of an inpatient psychiatry unit, seen through the eyes of both the patients trying to get well and the staff trying to help them.
Faceless
Director
Faceless is a documentary film about the workings of an inpatient psychiatry unit, seen through the eyes of both the patients trying to get well and the staff trying to help them.
Self Portrait
Cinematography
In the process of taking off her make-up, a young woman reveals her true face.
Cold Blooded
Writer
A female police officer has to keep a prisoner from escaping a nearly abandoned hospital unit at the same time his violent partners come looking for him.
Cold Blooded
Director
A female police officer has to keep a prisoner from escaping a nearly abandoned hospital unit at the same time his violent partners come looking for him.
The Captured Bird
Producer
A darkly poetic fable that begins with a little girl drawing figures of people with chalk on the cement of a playground. She takes notice of an unusual crack in the pavement that is seeping a mysterious black fluid, which she follows to an ominous building. Inside, she encounters several bizarre phenomena, including walls that bleed black and tentacles that emerge from the ceiling to touch her. She then witnesses the birth of five terrifying supernatural beings that threaten the existence of her world.
Yo declaro la guerra
Screenplay
Todos los días después de clases, dos grupos de niños juegan a la guerra en el bosque, con armas hechas con palos, juguetes viejos, y cualquier cosa que puedan encontrar. Juegan para divertirse hasta que los lideres de cada grupo empiezan a comportarse como adultos, lo que provoca una espiral de violencia y muerte, convirtiendo lo que es un juego en una autentica guerra.
Yo declaro la guerra
Director
Todos los días después de clases, dos grupos de niños juegan a la guerra en el bosque, con armas hechas con palos, juguetes viejos, y cualquier cosa que puedan encontrar. Juegan para divertirse hasta que los lideres de cada grupo empiezan a comportarse como adultos, lo que provoca una espiral de violencia y muerte, convirtiendo lo que es un juego en una autentica guerra.
How We Die
Writer
Memento Mori is a morbidly beautiful journey into the world of alternative post mortem arrangements and an illuminating meditation on death, dying and our relationship with our bodies once they are no longer ours.