Jeffrey St. Jules is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, who
won the Claude Jutra Award in 2015 for his debut feature film Bang
Bang Baby. The film also won the award for Best Canadian First Feature
Film at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.Originally from
Fall River, Nova Scotia, St. Jules studied creative writing and film
at Concordia University. Prior to making Bang Bang Baby, St. Jules
wrote and directed a number of short films, including The Sadness of
Johnson Joe Jangles, The Tragic Story of Nling, The Long Autumn, Let
the Daylight Into the Swamp and a music video for Apostle of Hustle's
"National Anthem of Nowhere".He won the Jackson-Triggs Award for Best
Emerging Canadian Filmmaker at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival
in 2005 for Joe Jangles, and in the same year became the first
Canadian film director ever admitted to the Cannes Film Festival's
residency program for emerging filmmakers. The Tragic Story of Nling
was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 28th
Genie Awards. Let the Daylight into the Swamp, an experimental
documentary film about his grandparents, was a shortlisted nominee for
Best Short Documentary at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards.
won the Claude Jutra Award in 2015 for his debut feature film Bang
Bang Baby. The film also won the award for Best Canadian First Feature
Film at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.Originally from
Fall River, Nova Scotia, St. Jules studied creative writing and film
at Concordia University. Prior to making Bang Bang Baby, St. Jules
wrote and directed a number of short films, including The Sadness of
Johnson Joe Jangles, The Tragic Story of Nling, The Long Autumn, Let
the Daylight Into the Swamp and a music video for Apostle of Hustle's
"National Anthem of Nowhere".He won the Jackson-Triggs Award for Best
Emerging Canadian Filmmaker at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival
in 2005 for Joe Jangles, and in the same year became the first
Canadian film director ever admitted to the Cannes Film Festival's
residency program for emerging filmmakers. The Tragic Story of Nling
was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 28th
Genie Awards. Let the Daylight into the Swamp, an experimental
documentary film about his grandparents, was a shortlisted nominee for
Best Short Documentary at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards.
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