Patrick Demers is a film director from Montreal, born in 1969 in Saint-Eustache, Quebec.
Following his graduation from film school at the age of 22, Demers traveled around the world alone over six months with a handheld camera for La Course destination monde (Radio-Canada Television) and started shooting.
After a few years working as a director in the television and advertising industries, his first short fiction film, Discharge (Décharge), won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the Toronto International Film Festival.[1] In 2003 he wrote and directed "Dans un spoutnik", an animated music video for Daniel Bélanger which won several awards in the ADISQ Gala[2] and at the MuchMusic Video Awards[3] that year. His next documentary, Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe, that he co-directed and edited, won Best Canadian Work at the Festival International du Film sur l'Art en 2004.[4]
Suspicions (Jaloux), his first feature film, was released in 2010.[5] The independent movie was produced by Productions Kinesis and was selected by the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival[6] and by the Toronto International Film Festival[7] while also opening the Canadian Front[8] at the Museum of Modern Art in 2011. Origami (2017) premiered at the Fantasia International Film Festival[9] where it won the Barry Convex Special Jury Prize for its deft direction, sophisticated visual aesthetic, strong performances, and the successful blending of genres in a complex story told in a refreshingly unconventional manner.[10]