LÉA POOL's highly personal and emotional vision has singled her out as one Canada's great filmmakers. In 1979, Strass Café launched a career that was to bring us great productions such as La femme de l'hôtel, Anne Trister, À corps perdu, La demoiselle sauvage, and Mouvements du désir which garnered eight Genie Award nominations. Emporte-moi won several awards including the Berlin Festival Ecumenical Jury Special Award; and Lost and Delirious was shown at many festivals. The Blue Butterfly (starring William Hurt) was LÉA POOL's first foray into making a family movie. More recently she directed Maman est chez le coiffeur with Céline Bonnier. She has also directed several documentaries for television such as Gabrielle Roy, winner of a Gémaux award for best documentary. LÉA POOL's impact on the seventh art can be measured by the many tributes and retrospectives of her work that have been held around the world since 1989.

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