White Skin
Filmmaker Daniel Roby (Funkytown, Louis Cyr) first directed a playful and inventive horror film that garnered him significant recognition, including the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). White Skin will be screened in the presence of the director and his collaborators.
Winner of the Best Canadian First Feature Film Award, TIFF 2004
In the presence of director Daniel Roby, actress Marianne Farley and the film crew.
Thierry has just met Claire and has fallen deeply in love even though she has the only characteristic he dislikes in a woman: very white skin. Claire tries to discourage his advances but they are only drawn closer together. He begins wasting away in the eyes of his best friend Henri but when he realises that it was Claire's sister who savagely attacked Henri in a hotel, Thierry understands how little he knows about her and her mysterious blood ties. Adaptation of Joël Champetier's novel.
Daniel Roby
Daniel Roby is a Quebecois director who has also worked as a cinematographer, producer, stage director, and editor. He graduated from Concordia University and the University of Southern California. His first feature film, White Skin (La peau blanche, 2004), was named Best Canadian First Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and was listed among the ten best Canadian films of the year. His second feature, Funkytown (2011), which premiered at TIFF, achieved the highest box office in Canada in 2011. With Louis Cyr (2013), he won 9 Jutra Awards, including Best Film. After a brief stint in television, he returned to the big screen with the films Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume, 2018) and Target Number One (Suspect numéro un, 2020). He is currently working on the biographical film Villeneuve: Rise of a Champion, which tells the story of the late race car driver Gilles Villeneuve. The film is set to be released in 2025.
