Nancy Grant

Nancy Grant

Nascimento : , Matane, Quebec, Canada

História

Nancy Grant is a French-Québécois Canadian film producer. She was born in the small village of Petit-Matane, on the Gaspé Peninsula in the north of Quebec, Canada. She has produced multiple projects with several Quebec filmmakers including Maxime Giroux, Xavier Dolan, Denis Côté, and Anne Émond. Her recent productions include Tom at the Farm (2013), Mommy (2014), and 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.

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Nancy Grant

Filmes

The Nature of Love
Producer
Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Sylvain is a carpenter in the Laurentians and must renovate their country house. When Sophia meets Sylvain for the first time, it’s love at first sight. Opposites attract, but can it last?
Falcon Lake
Producer
Bastien and Chloé spend the summer vacation with their families at a lake cabin in Quebec. Despite the age gap, the two teenagers form a singular bond. Ready to overcome his worst fears to earn a place in Chloé's heart, the holiday becomes a turbulent pivotal moment for the young boy.
III
Makeup Artist
By a hot summer day on the lakeshore, three siblings face death for the first time through their contact with nature.
III
Executive Producer
By a hot summer day on the lakeshore, three siblings face death for the first time through their contact with nature.
Charlotte
Executive Producer
A verdadeira história de Charlotte Salomon, uma jovem pintora judia alemã que atinge a maioridade em Berlim às vésperas da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Com uma imensa imaginação e um grandioso talento, ela sonha em se tornar uma artista. Quando políticas antissemitas se instauram e a violência aumenta, ela foge para o sul da França. Lá ela começa a pintar novamente e encontra um novo amor. Mas logo tem de parar novamente, desta vez por uma tragédia familiar que revela um segredo ainda mais sombrio. Então, em busca de um milagre, ela parte em uma aventura.
O Paraíso Deve Ser Aqui
American Producer
O diretor Elia Suleiman estrela seu próprio filme, uma saga cômica que investiga os significados do exílio e da busca por um lar. Palestino, Suleiman deixa seu país, à procura de uma nova vida. Mas aonde quer que ele vá, de Paris a Nova York, a Palestina parece segui-lo, pois algo sempre o faz lembrar de casa.
Matthias & Maxime
Producer
Matt e Max, dois melhores amigos de infância vão a uma festa para celebrar a partida de Max para uma viagem de dois anos. Um beijo inesperado porá tudo em causa.
A Brother’s Love
Producer
Sophia, a brilliant doctoral student, has always maintained a symbiotic relationship with her brother Karim. The arrival of a new lover in Karim’s life significantly alters their dynamic.
A Morte e Vida de John F. Donovan
Producer
John F. Donovan é um jovem ator americano de talento, que pretende conquistar uma grande carreira na indústria. Mas os seus sonhos começam a se desfazer quando uma revista de fofoca descobre que ele se corresponde com um garotinho britânico de 11 anos de idade. As acusações maliciosas sobre a relação entre Donovan e a criança criam uma tormenta na vida do ator.
The Great Darkened Days
Producer
While a world war rages, Philippe, a draft-dodger from Quebec, takes refuge in the American West, surviving by competing in Charlie Chaplin impersonation contests. As Philippe makes his long journey home, he encounters various characters under the sway of a destructive madness borne of the chaotic times. His voyage, both violent and fascinating, is a hallucinatory initiation to the darker side of the American dream.
Pisces
Producer
Two childhood friends, each held captive in time by a tragic moment, travel through the world of memory to find their respective path to freedom.
Lira's Forest
Producer
As the end of her life approaches, an old woman encounters a strange spirit from a nearby forest.
Shambles
Producer
A história de dois irmãos, Vincent e Michel, que estão novamente em contato, apesar dos problemas com o crime organizado.
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
Self
Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider and Melvil Poupaud discuss working with the young Canadian director Xavier Dolan, who has conquered the hearts of both cinema lovers and prestigious festival juries with his films. To French actress Nathalie Baye, he seems very experienced despite his young age, while Cannes Director Thierry Frémaux says he may be insolent, but everyone agrees he is passionate, creative, a perfectionist and... in a hurry.
É Apenas o Fim do Mundo
Producer
Um escritor vai ao encontro de sua família após 12 anos para informá-los que irá morrer em breve. O passado ressurge de maneira implacável e a situação acaba saindo do controle.
Boris Without Beatrice
Producer
Living somewhere in present-day Quebec, Boris Malinowski has achieved all his goals. A freethinker, open-minded and proud, he also displays a certain arrogance when it comes to his successes. For some time now, his wife Béatrice, a Canadian government minister, has been bedridden, suffering from a mysterious depression. To escape from his wife’s agony, Boris begins a relationship with a colleague, Helga, and gets close to Klara, a young woman who works as a maid in Boris’s home. The sudden appearance of a stranger in his life forces Boris to come face-to-face with the world, with everything he takes for granted, with all his certainties.
Our Loved Ones
Producer
1978. In a small village in Bas-St-Laurent, Guy’s tragic death is a shock for the Leblanc family. For many years, the real cause of his death is kept hidden from some members of the family, including his son David. The latter in turn starts his own family with his wife Marie. He lovingly raises his children Laurence and Frédéric, but deep within him harbours a persistent melancholy.
Felix and Meira
Producer
A young married woman from Montreal's Orthodox Jewish community finds freedom from the strictures of her faith through her relationship with a young man who is mourning the death of his estranged father.
Mommy
Producer
Uma mãe solteira e viúva se vê sobrecarregada com a custódia em tempo integral de seu imprevisível filho de 15 anos com TDAH. À medida que lutam para conseguir dinheiro, Kyla, a nova vizinha do outro lado da rua, oferece sua ajuda. Juntos, eles encontram um novo equilíbrio e um pouco de esperança.
Tom na Fazenda
Executive Producer
O último trabalho do incansável, criativo e provocativo Xavier Dolan, canadense (“Eu Matei Minha Mãe” e “Laurence Anyways”) segue um homem aflito que visita os pais de seu amante morto – apenas para descobrir que eles não tinham conhecimento da orientação sexual de seu filho.
Jeu d’enfant
Producer
At dawn, Catherine follows her father in the wood. Under his command she works. Forced by the family heritage, she is tired by injustices. With immature mischiefs, she yells her misfortune to the face of an overwhelmed father. This little girl’s fierceness and bad temper will lead the discovery her true being. Thinking of herself as invincible, she will soon be alone, left at the mercy of her fears.
Joy of Man's Desiring
Producer
Que ta joie demeure is not a documentary about being a slave to the machine, alienation, dehumanisation or exploitation. Sound and image, editing and dramatic structure are merely employed to transpose workshops and factory floors into the cinematic space so as to explore the bizarre environments that workers adapt to and with which they skillfully interact, as if humanity had never done anything else since time immemorial.
Vic+Flo Viram um Urso
Associate Producer
Victoria Champagne (Pierrette Robitaille) é libertada da prisão. Instalada em uma cabana no meio da mata, ela deve informar suas atividades semanais ao agente da condicional (Marc-André Grondin). Florence Richemont (Valerie Donzelli), sua companheira de cela e de intimidade, é liberada mais tarde e se junta a Victoria na floresta. A partir disto, começa uma estranha dinâmica entre elas, que precisam se proteger dos fantasmas do passado.
An Extraordinary Person
Producer
A 30 year-old scholar, intelligent and beautiful yet socially crippled, is forced to attend a bachelorette party where her quest for authenticity leads to an unavoidable confrontation with old acquaintances.
Diego Star
Producer
A cargo ship is stuck on the Canadian Saint Lawrence River for repairs. Traoré, an Ivory Coast mechanic is unjustly accused of causing the damage.
La tête en bas
Producer
Head Down casts an atypical view on the solitude, melancholy and marginality in the daily life of three girls.
The Torrent
Associate Producer
It’s 1922 in the Quebec countryside, and Claudine Perreault has big plans for her son, François. He’ll enter the pries- thood so that God will forgive her for bearing a child out of wedlock. But 17-year-old François is dead set against joining the seminary. Enraged, Claudine strikes him so violently he goes deaf. After his mother’s death, François begins a different kind of relationship with a woman when he buys the wild and aloof young Amica from an Innu pedlar.
Acrobat
Producer
The fixations and the consequences of our pursuit of instant communication and popular culture are exposed as a plotless panorama of our daily obsessions, desires and identities captures a sense of things slowly slipping out of control.
Struggle
Producer
Ariane Lives in Val-d'Or. She will soon stay in the big city. So she gets ready to leave everything behind and to say bye to her brother. But the sexual tension between them, that they always struggle with, seems to take all the place.
Night #1
Producer
Clara and Nikolai meet at a sweat-soaked rave and end their night at his apartment. The first part of the film is an erotic and candid portrait of their lovemaking. When Clara tries to sneak out without saying goodbye, this typical hookup takes an unexpected turn...
Laurentia
Producer
A young quebecer descends into alienation and depression.
Nothing Else
Producer
Silence Lies
Production Manager
Depuis une sérieuse dispute avec son frère Fred, qui lui servait de modèle, Viviane, photographe professionnelle, a mis en veilleuse ses ambitions artistiques. Or, le hasard lui fait rencontrer Guillaume, un jeune mécanicien dont la photogénie naturelle l'inspire. Réticent, ce dernier se laisse convaincre de poser pour Viviane qui, retrouvant son énergie créatrice, fait de lui le sujet d'un projet d'exposition. Bientôt, l'artiste constate que le jeune homme, qui vit toujours chez ses parents, porte les stigmates d'un douloureuse expérience familiale, qui le rend asocial et autodestructeur. Tout en cherchant à percer le mystère de Guillaume, Viviane tente un rapprochement avec son frère.
Silence Lies
Producer
Depuis une sérieuse dispute avec son frère Fred, qui lui servait de modèle, Viviane, photographe professionnelle, a mis en veilleuse ses ambitions artistiques. Or, le hasard lui fait rencontrer Guillaume, un jeune mécanicien dont la photogénie naturelle l'inspire. Réticent, ce dernier se laisse convaincre de poser pour Viviane qui, retrouvant son énergie créatrice, fait de lui le sujet d'un projet d'exposition. Bientôt, l'artiste constate que le jeune homme, qui vit toujours chez ses parents, porte les stigmates d'un douloureuse expérience familiale, qui le rend asocial et autodestructeur. Tout en cherchant à percer le mystère de Guillaume, Viviane tente un rapprochement avec son frère.
Curling
Production Manager
Set in a rural Québec village in the dead of winter, Jean-François, a single father, works at a deserted bowling alley at night and in a rundown motel during the day. His daughter, Julyvonne never leaves their home. Jean-François isolates her in fear that contact with the outside world will scar her the way it has him.
Cinema for the Blind
Producer
Driven by an image which will not leave him, Philémon takes a room at the Hôtel de la Mer. This unseemly boarding house contains a «cinema for the blind«, where the interior drama of the residents is secretly projected. Philémon slips, step by step, into a mute dream, where he attemps to lose sight of himself.
Opening Up
Producer
Gabrielle is 16. She inflicts pain to herself, cut herself. Her father doesn’t understand why. At the hospital she meet Étienne, who suffers from an accidental injury. With him, she doesn't have to explain anything.
Félix et Malou
Producer
Felix and Malou are two neighbors in a small village with large fields. Each family, each with its problems of adolescents of thirteen. But between the two houses, through their differences, Felix and Malou are found ... and survive.
Les Affluents - Volume III: La battue
Associate Producer
During a beating in the forest, a troubled young girl announces to her mother that she intends to leave the family home.
Passage
Production Manager
Exquisitely filmed in black-and-white, this experimental narrative follows four friends on a road trip as they discover the complicated arena of unseen desire that arises when ecstasy and sexuality mix.
Will You Be Home Tonight?
Producer
Suzanne is nearly fifty. She lives alone with Raphaëlle, her twenty year old daughter. Despairing that she will never again find love, Suzanne resolves to have plastic surgery done on her breasts. Raphaëlle is disturbed by her mother’s decision, while Suzanne worries about her daughter’s romantic life.
Joli Jour
Executive Producer
Not available.