Rafaël Ouellet
Rafaël Ouellet is a Canadian screenwriter and film director from Dégelis, Quebec. He launched his career as a cameraman, editor and director for MusiquePlus from 1998 to 2004. He received a Juno Award nomination for Music DVD of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2004, for his work on Our Lady Peace's concert DVD Our Lady Peace Live in Alberta.
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Rafaël Ouellet
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- 1974 · Matagami.
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- Canada
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- film director · screenwriter
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Television
Television
• Le Groulx Luxe - 2003 • Canadian Case Files - 2005 • The Phoenix Sessions - 2006 • Pendant ce temps, devant la télé - 2007 • La vie nous arrive - 2012 • Nouvelle adresse - 2014 • Blue Moon - 2018 • Cheval Serpent - 2018 • Ruptures - 2018 • Virage - 2023
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Music DVDs
• Our Lady Peace: Live in Alberta - 2003 • Our Lady Peace: Decade - 2006 • Loose: The Concert (Nelly Furtado) - 2007
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1974
Rafaël Ouellet born at Matagami.
Film
He then directed episodes of the television series Le Groulx Luxe and Canadian Case Files, and was the editor of Denis Côté's 2005 film Drifting States (Les États nordiques), before releasing his debut feature film, Mona's Daughters (Le cèdre penché), in 2007. He firstly became widely known for his 2012 film Camion, for which he received Jutra Award nominations for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editing at the 15th Jutra Awards in 2013. His newest film, Family Game (Arsenault et fils), entered the production process in 2020. It was shot in Ouellet's hometown, and was released in 2022. The film received eight Prix Iris nominations at the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2023, including nods for Ouellet in both Best Director and Best Screenplay. In 2025, Productions Casablanca announced that Ouellet will write and direct a forthcoming adaptation of Alex Viens's novel Les pénitences. In the same year he entered production on Haunted (Hantée), a fantasy comedy written by India Desjardins about a teenage girl who befriends the ghost haunting her family home.
• Mona's Daughters (Le Cèdre penché) - 2007 • Behind Me (Derrière moi) - 2008 • New Denmark - 2009 • Camion - 2012 • Finissant(e)s - 2013 • Gurov and Anna (Gurov et Anna) - 2015 • Family Game (Arsenault et fils) - 2022 • Haunted (Hantée) - 2026 • Les pénitences - TBA
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- 1.Helen Faradji, "Rafaël Ouellet : le pamphlétaire prudent". Ici Radio-Canada, April 17, 2017.
- 2.Rafaël Ouellet, "L’âge de Bruce Lee". La Presse, February 15, 2019.
- 3."Rafaël Ouellet présente son tout dernier film à Dégelis". CIMT-DT, April 20, 2015.
- 4.Kevin Laforest, "Le Cèdre penché : Là, maintenant". Voir, June 12, 2008.
- 5.Stephen Dalton. Camion: Karlovy Vary Film Review. The Hollywood Reporter. July 2, 2012.
- 6."Spotlight shines on Quebec cinema at the Jutra awards". CBC News Montreal, March 17, 2013.
- 7.Andréanne Lebel, "Arsenault et fils : un retour aux sources pour Rafaël Ouellet". Infodimanche, May 30, 2010.
- 8."Le nouveau film de Rafaël Ouellet tourné en partie à Dégelis". Ici Radio-Canada Première, May 13, 2021.
- 9.Charles-Henri Ramond, "Arsenault et fils – Film de Rafaël Ouellet". Films du Québec, June 13, 2022.
- 10.Maxime Demers, "Gala Québec Cinéma: le film «Viking» en tête des nominations". Le Journal de Montréal, November 14, 2023.
- 11.Maxime Demers, "Le cinéaste Rafaël Ouellet adaptera au cinéma le roman «Les pénitences», d’Alex Viens". Le Journal de Montréal, February 4, 2025.
- 12.Charles-Henri Ramond, "Rafaël Ouellet tourne Hantée". Films du Québec, September 23, 2025.
- 13.Charles-Henri Ramond, "Derrière moi – Film de Rafaël Ouellet". Films du Québec, December 23, 2008.
- 14.Charles-Henri Ramond, "New Denmark – Film de Rafaël Ouellet". Films du Québec, March 16, 2010.
- 15.André Duchesne, "Rafaël Ouellet s'intéresse aux Finissant(e)s". La Presse, August 7, 2012.
- 16.Etan Vlessing, "Rafael Ouellet shooting fifth feature, Gurov & Anna". Playback, March 24, 2014.
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