Marie-Hélène Cousineau is a Canadian film director and producer.
Originally from Quebec, she moved to Igloolik, Northwest Territories
(now in Nunavut) in 1991, where she became a co-founder of the
filmmaking collective Arnait Video Productions.Her most noted film,
Before Tomorrow (Le Jour avant le lendemain), was co-directed with
Madeline Ivalu and released in 2008. Cousineau and Ivalu were
shortlisted Genie Award nominees for Best Director, and alongside
co-writer Susan Avingaq for Best Adapted Screenplay, at the 30th Genie
Awards in 2010. Cousineau later collaborated with Ivalu on the film
Uvanga, and with Avingaq on the documentary film Sol. Sol is a feature
documentary, that explores the mysterious death of a young Inuit man,
Solomon Uyurasuk. As the documentary investigates the truth to
Solomon's death, it sheds light on the underlying social issues of
Canada's North that has resulted in this region claiming one of the
highest youth suicide rates in the world.More recently, Cousineau has
collaborated with Ivalu on an adaptation of Gabrielle Roy's
unpublished work La Rivière sans repos, previously translated and
published as Windflower.
Originally from Quebec, she moved to Igloolik, Northwest Territories
(now in Nunavut) in 1991, where she became a co-founder of the
filmmaking collective Arnait Video Productions.Her most noted film,
Before Tomorrow (Le Jour avant le lendemain), was co-directed with
Madeline Ivalu and released in 2008. Cousineau and Ivalu were
shortlisted Genie Award nominees for Best Director, and alongside
co-writer Susan Avingaq for Best Adapted Screenplay, at the 30th Genie
Awards in 2010. Cousineau later collaborated with Ivalu on the film
Uvanga, and with Avingaq on the documentary film Sol. Sol is a feature
documentary, that explores the mysterious death of a young Inuit man,
Solomon Uyurasuk. As the documentary investigates the truth to
Solomon's death, it sheds light on the underlying social issues of
Canada's North that has resulted in this region claiming one of the
highest youth suicide rates in the world.More recently, Cousineau has
collaborated with Ivalu on an adaptation of Gabrielle Roy's
unpublished work La Rivière sans repos, previously translated and
published as Windflower.
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