A Few Acres of Snow
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In 1837, in a Quebec village, Simon de Bellefeuille remains in his father's house, even though it has been requisitioned by an Englishman. He falls in love with Julie Lambert, a neighbor's daughter promised in marriage to a Montreal lawyer. Things get out of hand and Simon and Julie have to flee together.
Denis Héroux
Denis Héroux is a Quebecois producer, director, screenwriter, and editor, who has been honored with both the Order of Merit and the Order of Canada. He became a filmmaker while still a student at the Université de Montréal, persuading the student association to let him direct a film that would replace the traditional end-of-year comedic revue with an ironic portrayal of student life. Alongside Stéphane Venne and Denys Arcand, he began working on the feature film Seul ou avec d'autres (1962), bringing in three rising talents from the National Film Board: Michel Brault, Gilles Groulx, and Marcel Carrière. While waiting for a rare opportunity to make a living solely as a filmmaker, Héroux taught history until 1969. By the late 1960s, he had become one of the most prominent independent filmmakers in Quebec, with notable successes such as Valérie (1968) and L'initiation (1970). Eager to make a mark internationally, he took Quebec cinema beyond its borders, a step he had already made with Sept fois... par jour (1971). At the end of 1970, he founded the International Cinema Corporation with John Kemeny to focus on international film financing. With his wife Justine Héroux, he produced Les Plouffe (1981), the largest Quebec production of its time with a budget of over five million dollars. In 1985, he established Alliance Entertainment Corporation, later known as Alliance-Vivafilm, in partnership with Toronto's Robert Lantos. He eventually founded the Observatoire du cinéma au Québec with André Gaudreault in 2007, an academic center designed to foster collaboration between Quebec cinema practitioners and film scholars, while also supporting the next generation of filmmakers.
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