LIKE THE ONES I USED TO KNOW
A FILM BY ANNIE ST-PIERRE
SHORTLISTED AT THE 94th OSCARS CEREMONY – BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM CATEGORY
Short Film – Quebec – 2020 – 18 min
Color | French with English subtitles | 16:9 | 5.1
SYNOPSIS
December 24, 1983, 10:50 p.m.; Julie and her cousins ate too much sugar, Santa Claus is late and Denis, alone in his car, is anxious about the idea of setting foot in his ex-in-law’s house to pick up his children. Les grandes claques is an early coming-of-age that is as squeaky as it is poetic.
Cast
Steve Laplante, Lilou Roy-Lanouette, Larissa Corriveau, Amélie Grenier, Jérémie Jacob and Laurent Lemaire
Crew
DIRECTION AND SCREENPLAY : Annie St-Pierre
PRODUCTION : Fanny Drew and Sarah Mannering (Colonelle Films)
CINEMATOGRAPHER : Etienne Roussy
SOUND : Marie-Pierre Grenier
EDITING: Myriam Magassouba
A STORY BY : Annie St-Pierre and Daniel Schachter
“AN EMOTIONAL GUT PUNCH”
— INDIEWIRE
“a charming coming-of-age drama full of laughter (and tears)”
— Ubiquarian
DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY
Annie St-Pierre was born in St-Pascal-de-Kamouraska and studied film at the Université du Quebec at Montreal. A documentary filmmaker fascinated by the parallel worlds that populate ordinary life, she has directed Migration amoureuse, a co-production with France and Belgium that won the Pierre Perrault Best Documentary Hope Award, and Fermières, a feature film presented at the closing of the RIDM and widely distributed in Quebec theatres. Her first short fiction film 让-马克-瓦雷 won the Best French-language screenplay award at the Regard Festival. An apostle of independent cinema, she also collaborates as a script advisor, casting director, actress or producer with directors who inspire her, including Matthew Rankin, Denis Côté and Monia Chokri.
FILMOGRAPHY
WILCOX | 2019, 60 min
Producer, fiction, directed by Denis Côté
让-⻢克·瓦雷 (JEAN-MARC VALLEE) | 2015, 5 min
Writer and director
Competition Regard Festival, 2016
THE OTHER GUIBORD OF THE CAMERA | 2015, 43 min
Writer, director and photography
FARMER | 2013 , 83 min
Writer and director
MY NAME IS GABRIELLE TOO | 2013, 46 min
Writer, director and photography, line producer
RVCQ 2014
IT’S ME I PROMISE | 2008, 23 min
Writer, director, photography and line producer
COMMUTING FOR LOVE | 2007, 52 min
Writer, director and photography
JEAN-PIERRE RONFARD : EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECT | 2003, 59 min
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Sundance Film Festival, 2021
Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival, 2021 – Québec en Courts
Tampere Film Festival, 2021
SXSW Film Festival, 2021 *SPECIAL JURY MENTION – BEST DIRECTING FOR A SHORT FILM *SPECIAL JURY MENTION – MAILCHIMP SUPPORT THE SHORTS AWARD
Annapolis Film Festival, 2021 *AUDIENCE AWARD – BEST SHORT FILM
Aspen Short Fest, 2021
Florida Film Festival, 2021
Seattle International Film Festival, 2021
Gala Prends ça Court!, 2021*COUPE DU COURT MELS * BEST ACTOR FOR STEVE LAPLANTE *SPECIAL JURY MENTION FOR CHRISTOPHE LAMARCHE-LEDOUX * KO24 AWARD
San Diego International ShortFest, 2021
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, 2021
Brussels Short Film Festival, 2021
REGARD Film Festival, 2021 – CANADIAN GRAND PRIZE Oscar-qualifying Award
Krakow Film Festival, 2021
Boulder International Film Festival, 2021
Filem On Brussels, 2021
Palm Springs International ShortFest, 2021
LA Shorts, 2021 *BEST COMEDY AWARD
Indy Shorts, 2021* GRAND PRIZE Oscar-qualifying Award
Galway Film, 2021
Cordillera International Film Festival, 2021*BEST OF THE FEST – SHORT FILM *BEST DIRECTOR OF A SHORT
Fantasia, 2021 *MATV MONTRÉAL AWARD *ASSOCIATION DES RÉALISATEURS ET RÉALISATRICES DU QUÉBEC (ARRQ) AWARD – BEST DIRECTION
Concorto Film Festival, 2021
Encounters Film Festival, 2021
Long week-end du court, 2021
Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2021
Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, 2021 *INTERNATIONAL JURY’S FAVOURITE PRIZE
Off-Courts Trouville, 2021
Les Percéides, Septembre 2021
Courts d’un Soir, Septembre 2021
Miami Short Film Festival, Novembre 2021
Indie Street Film Festival, septembre 2021
Calgary International Film Festival, 2021 *GRAND JURY PRIZE FOR BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
Nevada City Film Festival, 2021
Miami Short Film Festival, 2021
Guanajuato Short Film Festival, 2021 *SIGNIS AWARD + SPECIAL JURY MENTION – BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Nashville Film Festival, 2021 (Tennessee, USA) *NARRATIVE SHORT COMPETITION WINNER Oscar-qualifying Award
The 15 Short Film Festival, 2021
24 FPS International Short Film Festival, 2021 *BRONZE MEDAL *BEST ACTOR-STEVE LAPLANTE *BEST SCREENPLAY
Indie Street Film Festival, 2021
Naples International Film Festival, 2021 *RISING STAR AWARD
Calgary International Film Festival, 2021 *GRAND JURY PRIZE FOR BEST NARRATIVE SHORT Oscar-qualifying Award
El Paso Film Festival, 2021
Nevada City Film Festival, 2021
Vancouver International Film Festival, 2021
Bolton Film Festival, 2021
Hamptons International Film Festival, 2021
Tirana International Film Festival, 2021
AfterImage Film Fest, 2021
Tacoma Film Festival, 2021
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival (SFIFF), 2021
Valladolid International Film Festival, 2021
Holidays 365 International Film Festival, 2021 *BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILM *BEST DIRECTOR SHORT FILM – ANNIE ST-PIERRE * BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY SHORT FILM – ÉTIENNE ROUSSY *BEST ACTRESS SHORT FILM – LILOU ROY-LANOUETTE
Pittsburgh Shorts & Script Competition, 2021
Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, 2021 *SPIRA AWARD
Festival SPASM, 2021 *GRAND JURY PRIZE
Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA), 2021*LA VAGUE AWARD – BEST CANADIAN SHORT FILM
Images en Vues, 2021*JURY AWARD – BEST QUEBEC SHORT FILM
New Orleans Film Festival, 2021
Leeds International Film Festival, 2021
Coronado Island Film Festival, 2021
St.Louis International Film Festival, 2021
Sulmona International Film Festival, 2021 *BEST DIRECTOR *BEST SCREENPLAY
South Western International Film Festival (SWIFF), 2021
Longue vue sur le court, 2021*SPIRA AWARD – BEST QUEBEC SHORT FILM *QUEBEC AUDIENCE AWARD
Anchorage International Film Festival, 2021*AUDIENCE AWARD – BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM – 3rd PLACE
24th Olympia International Film Festival, 2021 *BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Shorts that are not Pants, 2021
zmir International Short Film Festival, 2021
Itinerant Program of Guanajuato International Film Festival, 2021
Canada’s Top Ten, 2022
Big Water Film Festival, 2021
São Paulo Film Festival – Semi-Finalist, 2021
Festival un poing c’est court de Vaulx-en-Velin, 2022
Plein(s) Écran(s), 2022
Flickerfest International Short Film Festival, 2022 *BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM AWARD
Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival, 2022
Festival International du Film pour Enfants de Montréal (FIFEM), 2022
Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois et francophone (RVCQF), 2022
Prix Écrans Canadiens : Catégorie du meilleur court métrage de fiction, 2022
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, 2022
Reel 2 Reel international Film Festival for Youth, 2022
Beirut International Women Film Festival, 2022 *BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Vancouver International Women in Film Festival (VIWIFF), 2022
Festival International du Film Court d’Angoulême, 2022
Festival Tout Court, 2022
Journées du Cinéma Québécois en Italie, 2022
Fargo Film Festival, 2022 *HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
Americana Film Fest, 2022
International Short and Independent Film Festival – Dhaka, 2022
Cleveland International Film Festival, 2022
Cinemagic «On the Pulse» Short Film Festival, 2022
Rhode Island programme Ciné-Québec, 2022
International Film Festival of Ottawa, 2022
Mecal Pro – Barcelona International Short and Animation, 2022
Filmfest Dresden International Short Film Festival – Programme Focus Québec, 2022
Milwaukee Film Festival, 2022 *JURY PRIZE FOR BEST SHORT
Ennesimo Film Festival, 2022
IRIS GALA – BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM 2022
Festival of Tolerance Zagreb, 2022
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, 2022
Bucharest Short Film Festival, 2022
La Guarimba, 2022 *PRIX VITALIANO CAMARCA – AUDIENCE AWARD
Mostra de Curtmetratges, 2022
Desertscape International Film Festival, 2022
Boyne Valley International Film Festival, 2022
Postira Seaside Film Festival, 2022
18th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival, 2022 *BEST DRAMA AWARD
Festifilm de la Beauce, 2022
Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec (FCVQ), 2022
San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival, 2022
Le Cri du Court, 2022
Femme Filmmakers Festival, 2022 *BEST MALE PERFORMANCE FOR STEVE LAPLANTE
Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival, 2022 *TOP PRIZE
Reggio Film Festival, 2022