Ariel Méthot / Cinematographer
FEATURE FILMS _______________________________________________________________________
- Une Splendeur de Vivre / 2025 / Feature film / In Post Production -
Director: Marianne Métivier
Production: Le Foyer Films - Geneviève Gosselin / Wilfredo Manalang (Philippines)
Festivals / Awards:
(Upcoming)
- OUTSTANDING / 2025 / Feature film / In Post Production -
Director: Mélanie Charbonneau
Production: GPA Films & January Production
Festivals / Awards:
(Upcoming)
- Simon et Marianne / 2024 / Documentary / 1h 11m -
Director: Martin Fournier & Pier-Luc Latulippe
Production: Cheval Films
Festivals / Awards:
Adelaide Film Festival 2024 - Winner Flinders University Documentary Award
Sheffield Doc Fest 2024 - International premiere
- VOUS N'ÊTES PAS SEULS (You are Not Alone) / 2024 / Feature film / 1h 45m -
Director: Marie Hélène Viens & Philippe Lupien.
Production: La Boite à Fanny: Fanny Laure Malo & Annie-Claude Quirion
Festivals / Awards:
TIFF 2024 - Winner Best Canadian Discovery Award - Honourable Mention
TIFF 2024 - DGC Discovery Award
- Fanon / 2024 / Feature film / 1h 50m -
Director: Jean-Claude Barny.
Production: Special Touch Studios / Paul Thiltges Distribution / Périphéria
Festivals / Awards:
The Marrakech International Film Festival 2024 - International Premiere
- Les Jours Heureux (Days Of Happiness) / 2023 / Feature film / 118 min -
Director: Chloé Robicheau
Production: Item 7 - Pierre Even
Festivals / Awards:
TIFF 2023 - International Premiere
TIFF 2023 - 2023 Nominee Outstanding Directorial Achievement
Miami Film Festival 2024 - 2024 Nominee Knight Marimbas Award
Gotenborg Film Festival 2024 - 2024 Nominee Dragon Award
Gala Quebec Cinema 2024 - Nominee best actress - (Sophie Desmarais)
Gala Quebec Cinema 2024 - Nominee Best Sound (Sylvain Bellemare, Luc Boudrias, Stephen de Oliveira, François Goupil)
- Dehors Serge Dehors / 2021 / Documentary / 68 min -
Director: Martin Fournier & Pier-Luc Latulippe
Production: Cheval Films
Festivals / Awards:
RIDM - Official selection 2021
Gala Iris - Quebec Cinema - Nominé Meilleur Direction de la Photographie - Film Documentaire 2021
Gala Iris - Quebec Cinema - Nominé Meilleur Montage - Film Documentaire 2021
Gala Iris - Quebec Cinema - Nominé Meilleur Film Documentaire 2021
- Like a House on Fire / 2020 / Feature film / 84min -
Director: Jesse Noah Klein
Production: Colonelle Films
Festivals / Awards:
TIFF 2020 - Official Selection 2020
- Fabuleuses / 2018 / Feature film / 110 min -
Director: Mélanie Charbonneau
Production: Go Films
Festivals / Awards:
Busan Bank Award – Audience Award, South Korea 2020
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma - Nomination, 2020
Gala Québec Cinéma - 5 Nominations, 2020
- Tadoussac / 2016 / Feature film / 120 min -
Director : Martin Laroche
Production: Les Films de l’Autre
Festivals / Awards:
Best Canadian Film , Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie,2017
Special Jury Award and Prize "Espoir du cinéma canadien" presented by theDieppe Dean Lions Club France, 2017
Golden Bayard for the best femal actress Camille Mongeau - Festivalinternational du film francophone de Namur
Golden Goblet - Shanghai International Film Festival, 2018FESTIVALS
Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue – Officialcompetition, Canada 2017
Cinémania – Official selection, Canada 2017
TV SERIES __________________________________________________________________________
- Le temps de framboises / 2022 / TV series / 10 Episodes -
Director: Philipe Falardeau
Production: Trio Orange
Festivals Awards:
Première mondiale à la Berlinale Series, 2022
Prix de la Meilleure mini série du Seoul International Drama Awards 2022
Reflet d’Or de la meilleure série au Geneva International Film 2022
Panorama International, Séries Mania, 2022
Gémeaux 2022 du Meilleur premier rôle féminin : série dramatique (Sandrine Bisson)
SHORT FILMS __________________________________________________________________________
- Joie de vivre / 2023 / Short film / 11 min -
Director: Dada
Production: SPORT
Format: S16mm
- Les Battues / 2022 / Short film / 15 min -
Director: Rafaël Beauchamp
Production: Colonelle Films - Léonie Hurtubise
Festivals / Awards:
Gala Prends Ça Court !, 2023
SXSW, 2023
Festival REGARD, 2023
- Celle qui porte la pluie / 2019 / Short film / 17 min -
Director: Marianne Métivier
Independent Production: Émile Lavoie & Clara l'heureux Garcia
Festivals / Awards / Selection:
Berlin International Film Festival - Shorts, 2020
Gala Prends ça court!, 2020 - Fragments Award
South European International Film Festival (Valencia edition), 2020 - Best filmand best foreign film
Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma, 2020Talent Tout Court – Cannes, 2019
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, 2019
Vancouver International Women in Film Festival,
2020 REGARD | Festival international du court métrage au Saguenay, 2020
- Goodbye Golovin / 2019 / Short film / 15 min -
Director: Mathieu Grimard
Independent Production: Mathieu Grimard & Simon Corriveau
Awards:
Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, 2019 * Special JuryMention
Berlin International Film Festival | Generation 14plus international Jury, 2020 *Special Jury Mention
Gala Prends ça court!, 2020 * Cup of the short MELS Shorts TV Award, AQCCAward, ARRQ Award et Special Jury Mention
Court d’un Soir, 2020 * Award for Best Quebec Work
Odessa International Film Festival, 2020 *Best ukranian film
Festival:
Torino Short Film Market, 2019
Québec en Court - Market Screening - Festival International de court-métrageà Clermont-Ferrand, 2020
REGARD | Festival international du court métrage au Saguenay, 2020
Taos Shortz Film Festival, 2020
Atlanta Film Festival, 2020
Cleveland International Film Festival
Mecal Pro – Barcelona International Short and Animation Film Festival, 2020
Red Sea International Film Festival – SOUK Market Video Library, 2020
Festival International de Courts de Lyon FILMORAMAX, 2020
Short Waves Festival, 2020
Curtas Vila do Conde, 2020
Palm Spring ShortFest, 2020
DC Shorts, 2020
Off-Courts Trouville, 2020
Berlin Short Film Festival, 2020
Thessaloniki Short Film Festival, 2020
Shorts Mexico, 2020
- Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous / 2018 / Short film / 15 min -
Direction: Mélanie Charbonneau
Independent Production: Hutte Films - Virginie Nolin & Mélanie Charbonneau
Format: S16mm
Festivals / Awards:
Locarno Film Festival, Suisse | 2018 | Official Competition
Regards sur courts, France | 2018 | *JURY’S SPECIAL MENTION*
Festival de Cinéma en Abitbi-Témiscamingue, Québec | 2018 | *WINNER PRIX TÉLÉ-QUÉBEC*
Pacific Meridian Vladivostok Film Festival, Russie | 2018 | Panorama section
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Québec | 2018 | Official Competition
Festival Int. Du Film Francophone de Namur, Belgique | 2018 | Les pépites du court section
Valladolid Int. Film Festival, Espagne | 2018 | Official Competition
FICFA, Moncton |2018| Official Competition
Torino Short Film Market, Italie | 2018 | Market Screening
Whistler Film Festival, Canada | 2018 | Official Competition
- Mon Boy / 2018 / Short film / 15 min -
Director: Sarah Pellerin
Production: La Boîte à Fanny
Awards:
Prix coup de coeur Coop Vidéo de Montréal - Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma,2019
Special mention – Grand Prize Fiction - Festival Courts d’un soir, 2019
Iris finalist (best fiction short film ) - Gala Québec Cinéma, 2019
Festivals:
TIFF 2018
Festival du nouveau cinéma 2018
Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue 2018Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2018
Torino Short Film Market 2018
Bogoshorts 2018
Verin International Short Film Festival 201
NexT Film Festival 2018
Vancouver International Women in Film Festival 2019Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma 2019
Festival REGARD 2019
Festival Courts d’un soir 2019
Newport Beach Film Festival 2019La Guarimba Film Festival 2019
- Dormir Désir / 2016 / Short film / 15 min -
Direction : Virginie Nolin
Production : La Créative Films
- Les jours sans fin / 2015 / Short film / 15 min -
Direction : Philippe Grenier
Independent Production : Philippe Grenier
Festivals / Awards:
(Cannes, 2016) Not Short on Talent/Talent tout court
(Saguenay, 2017) Regard, sélection 2017
(Montreal, 2017) Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québecois
(Montreal, 2017) Prends-ça court! (*Prix Post-Moderne)
(Washington, 2017) DC Shorts films Festival
(Rimouski, 2017) Carrousel International du film de Rimouski (*Prix André Melançon)
(Belfast UK, 2017) 28th Cinemagic Festival
(Panama, 2017) Torrecinos Film Festival
(North Carolina, 2017) North Carolina Film Award
(Brisbane, Australia, 2018) Colortape International Film Festival
(Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2018) Clujshorts International short Film Festival
(Pune, India) Global India International Film Festival 2018
(Vama Veche, Romania) The Black Sea film Festival (*Best Short / Best Soundtrack)
(Bucharest, Romania) Bucharest Short Film Festival (*Best Soundtrack)
ADVERTISING (Selection) ____________________________________________________________
Clients: POLENE / GIVENCHY / THE NORTH FACE / MC-DONALD'S / SUBWAY / RUFFLES / COCA-COLA / ROGERS /VACHON / STUSSY / DIME / BELL / DESJARDINS / FÉERIEN / LE LAIT /
Director: Mélanie Charbonneau / Maxime Giroux / Martin C. Pariseau / Jean Francois Asselin / Emmanuel Hoss / Emmanuel Mauries / Raphael Oulette / Amélie Hardy / Mathieu Grimard / Jérémie Saindon / Francois Jaros / Liam MacRea / Guillaume Lebel
EDUCATION __________________________________________________________________________
2008 - 2012 BFA Major in “Studio Art” / Concordia University / Montréal
2006 - 2008 DEC Visual Arts / Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf / Montréal
INTERNSHIPS _________________________________________________________________________
2014 Directing internship with André Turpin on the feature film Endorphine
2013 (February-June) Internship in photo direction with André Turpin