Pre-Drink Explained

Pre-Drink
Director:Marc-Antoine Lemire
Producer:Maria Gracia Turgeon
Marc-Antoine Lemire
Starring:Alex Trahan
Pascale Drevillon
Cinematography:Léna Mill-Reuillard
Editing:Anouk Deschênes
Studio:Les films de la Méduse
Midi la Nuit
Runtime:23 minutes
Country:Canada
Language:French

Pre-Drink is a Canadian dramatic short film by Marc-Antoine Lemire, which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.[1]

The film stars Alex Trahan as Carl and Pascale Drevillon as Alexe, a gay man and a transgender woman whose longtime friendship is complicated when they decide to have sex.[2]

In December, TIFF named the film to its annual Canada's Top Ten list of the ten best Canadian short films.[3] The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards,[4] and won the Prix Iris for Best Short Film at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards.[5]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tiff-2017-awards-1.4293440 "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri takes home TIFF's top honour"
  2. http://www.tiff.net/tiff/pre-drink/ "Pre-Drink"
  3. https://nowtoronto.com/movies/film-fests-and-screenings/canadas-top-ten-2017-has-glaring-omissions/ "Canada's Top Ten has some glaring omissions"
  4. http://www.filmsquebec.com/finalistes-prix-ecrans-canadiens-2018/ "Finalistes des Prix Écrans canadiens 2018"
  5. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1104762/gala-quebec-cinema-les-affames-robin-aubert-christian-begin-maude-guerin "Les affamés et Robin Aubert triomphent au Gala Québec Cinéma"