Jennifer Alleyn

Jennifer Alleyn

Jennifer Alleyn (born 1969) is a Canadian filmmaker, writer and photographer who lives and works in Montreal.[1]

The daughter of artist Edmund Alleyn,[2] she was born in Switzerland. She studied film at Concordia University. Alleyn worked as a journalist for the newspapers Le Devoir, Montreal Gazette and La Presse and for Elle Québec magazine. She travelled around the world while participating in the Radio-Canada television program Course destination monde.[1]

Alleyn wrote and directed a segment "Aurore et Crépuscule" of the 1996 film Cosmos;[3] Cosmos was included in the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes.[4] Her 2003 film Svanok was awarded the prize for best short fiction film by the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma.[5] In 2006, she made a film about her father L’atelier de mon père, sur les traces d’Edmund Alleyn; the film was named best Canadian film at the Festival international du film sur l'art in Montreal and also received a Prix Gémeaux. She directed the 2010 film Dix fois Dix about painter Otto Dix, which received the Prix Tremplin pour le monde ARTV.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Jennifer Alleyn & Nancy Huston – Cinéma et littérature". voir.ca (in French).
  2. ↑ "Change to Spare: Edmund Alleyn at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal". NGC Magazine. National Gallery of Canada. July 20, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Première du film «Cosmos»" (in French). University of Sherbrooke.
  4. ↑ "Cosmos". Cannes Festival.
  5. ↑ "Svanok". femfilm.ca (in French).
  6. ↑ "Jennifer Alleyn". VUCAVU (in French).

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