French Canadian director and screenwriter
François Girard OC [ 1] (born January 12, 1963) is a French Canadian director and screenwriter from Montreal . Born in Saint-Félicien, Quebec , Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit. In 1990, he produced his first feature film, Cargo ; he attained international recognition following his 1993 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould , a series of vignettes about the life of piano prodigy Glenn Gould . In 1998, he wrote and directed The Red Violin , which follows the ownership of a red violin over several centuries. The Red Violin won an Academy Award for Best Original Score , thirteen Genie Awards and nine Jutra Awards .
He has also directed various works for the stage, including Stravinsky 's Symphony of Psalms , Oedipus Rex , and Alessandro Baricco 's Novecento at the Edinburgh International Festival ; Kafka 's The Trial , adapted for the stage by Serge Lamothe at the National Arts Centre , Ottawa; the oratorio Lost Objects at the Brooklyn Academy of Music ; Siegfried in Toronto; and The Lindbergh Flight and The Seven Deadly Sins , first in Lyon and then in Edinburgh. Girard has also produced a residency show for Cirque du Soleil , Zed , in Tokyo and Zarkana , which opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York in the summer of 2011.[ 2]
In 2013, the Metropolitan Opera in New York opened a new production of Richard Wagner's Parsifal directed by Girard.[ 3] The production received near universal acclaim from critics and audiences alike.[ 3] [ 4]
His television credits include Le dortoir , Peter Gabriel 's Secret World and The Sound of the Carceri , one of the six episodes of Yo Yo Ma Inspired by Bach .
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