Pedro Pires (born 1969 in Nantes, France) is a Canadian film director.
His short film Danse Macabre won the award for Best Canadian Short
Film at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and the Genie
Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 30th Genie Awards, his
short film Hope was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short
Drama at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012, and he was a Canadian Screen
Award nominee for Best Director at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in
2014 for Triptych, which he co-directed with Robert Lepage.His most
recent film, the documentary Alexander Odyssey (Alexandre le fou),
received three Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 8th Canadian
Screen Awards in 2020, for Best Feature Length Documentary, Best
Cinematography in a Documentary (Pires) and Best Editing in a
Documentary (Pires, Sophie Leblond and Sylvia de Angelis).He is also a
visual effects technician and art director, whose credits have
included several of Lepage's other films and the television series
Charlie Jade.
His short film Danse Macabre won the award for Best Canadian Short
Film at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and the Genie
Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 30th Genie Awards, his
short film Hope was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short
Drama at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012, and he was a Canadian Screen
Award nominee for Best Director at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in
2014 for Triptych, which he co-directed with Robert Lepage.His most
recent film, the documentary Alexander Odyssey (Alexandre le fou),
received three Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 8th Canadian
Screen Awards in 2020, for Best Feature Length Documentary, Best
Cinematography in a Documentary (Pires) and Best Editing in a
Documentary (Pires, Sophie Leblond and Sylvia de Angelis).He is also a
visual effects technician and art director, whose credits have
included several of Lepage's other films and the television series
Charlie Jade.
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