Phil Comeau

Phil Comeau

Phil Comeau, CM is a Canadian film and television director, born in Saulnierville, Nova Scotia. He lives in Moncton.

Biography

Phil Comeau is a film and television director and scriptwriter, born in Nova Scotia and based in Moncton (New Brunswick) and Montreal (Quebec). He has directed numerous award-winning drama and documentary films and television series in over 20 countries. His films and TV episodes have been broadcast on over 70 networks worldwide.

His recent films include the award-winning feature-length documentaries Secretariat's Jockey, Ron Turcotte and The Nature of Frederic Back. His popular adult drama series Tribu.com (I & II) received viewer ratings of 1.3 million in Quebec. Other popular drama series include the remakes of Lassie and La Sagouine). Other series include Emily of New Moon, Pit Pony, Les couleurs de mon accent, World Legends and Mayday which has been translated in 26 languages and broadcast worldwide. He also directed and wrote a Canadian Acadian feature film Jerome's Secret and two TV movies Crash of the Century in France, and Teen Knight in Romania and the USA.

A globetrotter, Phil has travelled on all continents and visited over 50 countries. As an author, he has also published poetry in two books Plumes d'ictte and Éloizes, a published script Les Gossipeuses, an Acadian dictionary Le parler Acadjonne, and in 2014 acted as editor and co-director of Acadie Then and Now, a 500-page collective essaie containing both history and contemporary chapters on the Acadian world diaspora.

Comeau has also directed and wrote numerous films about his Acadian culture. Among them, the first independent Acadian feature film Jerome's Secret in 1994, the first Acadian comedy The Gossips, the first Acadian children's film The Hooked Rug of Grand-Pré and a popular series remake La Sagouine shot entirely by an Acadian crew for Radio-Canada.

Film awards and honours

His films and TV series have received over 40 awards at festivals in North America and Europe. Phil Comeau was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2011; the Order of New Brunswick and the Ordre de la Pléiade in 2016; he received the rank of "Chevalier" of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France in 2006; received the honorary distinction of the Ordre des francophones d'Amérique at the National Assembly in Quebec in 2007; two Honorary Doctorats in Arts from the Université de Moncton, N.B. (2013) and from Université Sainte-Anne, N.S. (2007); the Prix Meritas of the Federation acadienne du Quebec in 1999; the Grand-Pre Award from the Minister of Culture of Nova Scotia in 1997, and the Prix Champion in Ottawa in 1995. [1]

Filmography

as Director

as Writer

as Producer or coproducer

Awards and nominations

Honors

Film Awards

Film Nominations

- Official selection at Shanghai International film Festival, China.

- Official selection at Annecy International Animated Film Festival, France

References

  1. ↑ Governor General announces 74 new appointments to the Order of Canada
  2. ↑ Wolski, Tom (20 June 2013). "Finally, a movie about Secretariat's jockey". Vancouver Province. Retrieved 21 June 2013.

External links

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Order of Canada *

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