Joëlle Desjardins Paquette Explained

Joëlle Desjardins Paquette is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, who won the Borsos Competition award for Best Director of a Borsos Competition Film at the 2022 Whistler Film Festival for her 2022 film Rodeo (Rodéo).^[1] The film was subsequently nominated for the John Dunning Best First Feature Award at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.^[2]

She previously directed a number of short films, as well as television and webseries episodes. Her 2012 short Wintergreen (Paparmane) was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list in 2012.^[3]

Filmography

• Timbré – 2007
• Wintergreen (Paparmane) – 2012
• Apnées – 2012
• Voir le ciel – 2012
• Sans dehors ni dedans – 2015
• Beyond Blue Waves (Flots gris) – 2016
• Rapkeb Allstarz – 2018
• Une vue sous les étoiles – 2020^[4]
• Rosalie dans ta cuisine – 2021
• Parfaitement imparfait – 2021^[5]
• Rodeo (Rodéo) – 2022^[6]

Notes and References

1. Pat Mullen, "River, Coyote Top Whistler Film Festival Awards Winners". Point of View, December 4, 2022.
2. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Écrans canadiens – Viking,13 nominations". Films du Québec, February 22, 2023.
3. "Rebelle, Goon, Cosmopolis among Canada's Top Ten: Honoured film titles will be shown at Lightbox from Jan. 4 to 13". Toronto Star, December 5, 2012.
4. Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy, "«Une vue sous les étoiles»: rêves à l'auto". Le Devoir, May 29, 2020.
5. http://www.journalhorizon.com/une-webserie-documentaire-ou-20-personnalites-et-20-jeunes-parlent-de-sante-mentale/ "Une websérie documentaire où 20 personnalités et 20 jeunes parlent de santé mentale"
6. Pierre-Marc Durivage, "Premier coup d’œil au film Rodéo". La Presse, October 5, 2022.