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)



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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 

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