Sarah Fortin

Sarah Fortin is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, whose debut feature film Nouveau Québec was released in 2021.[1]

At the 2021 Whistler Film Festival, Fortin won both the Alliance of Women Film Journalists's EDA Award for best narrative feature directed by a woman,[2] and the Borsos Competition award for Best Screenplay for a Canadian film.[3]

A graduate of the Université du Québec à Montréal, she previously directed the short films Deux enfants qui fument (2004), Synthétiseur (2009) and Le fleuve à droite (2010), the documentary films Stephen Faulkner: J'm'en va r'viendre (2011) and Du hockey propre: petite histoire d'un film culte (2016), and episodes of the television documentary series Taverne (2013) and En marge du monde (2019).

References
  1. Véronik Picard, "Nouveau Québec : la rencontre des cultures dans une ville minière du Nord". Ici Radio-Canada Espaces Autochtones, October 9, 2021.
  2. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Sarah Fortin primée pour Nouveau-Québec". Films du Québec, December 16, 2021.
  3. Charlie Smith, "Cinema of Sleep wins Borsos award for best Canadian feature at Whistler Film Festival". The Georgia Straight, December 20, 2021.


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