Jeffrey St. Jules is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, who won the Claude Jutra Award in 2015 for his debut feature film Bang Bang Baby."Academy Names Claude Jutra Award Winner" . Broadcaster, February 3, 2015. The film also won the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival."‘The Imitation Game’ Wins Toronto Audience Award". The Wrap, September 14, 2014.
Career Originally from Fall River, Nova Scotia,"TIFF 2014: Jeffrey St. Jules, Canada’s master of the surreal short film, tries on long form for size". The Globe and Mail, September 4, 2014. St. Jules studied creative writing and film at Concordia University. Prior to making Bang Bang Baby, St. Jules wrote and directed a number of short films, including The Sadness of Johnson Joe Jangles, The Tragic Story of Nling, The Long Autumn,"Inferno lights up Cinema of Sleep" by Lauren Malyk at playbackonline.ca Let the Daylight Into the Swamp and a music video for Apostle of Hustle's "National Anthem of Nowhere".
He won the Jackson-Triggs Award for Best Emerging Canadian Filmmaker at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival in 2005 for Joe Jangles,"Short film festival long on prizes". National Post, June 21, 2005. and in the same year became the first Canadian film director ever admitted to the Cannes Film Festival's residency program for emerging filmmakers."His big Bang theories". National Post, September 6, 2014. The Tragic Story of Nling was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 28th Genie Awards. Let the Daylight into the Swamp, an experimental documentary film about his grandparents,"Into the swamp of family memory: Filmmaker uses poetry, humour to recount relatives' hurtful history". Toronto Star, September 13, 2012. was a shortlisted nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards.
His second full-length feature film, Cinema of Sleep, was released in 2021.Andy Howell, "Cinema of Sleep". Film Threat, April 13, 2021. St. Jules received a nomination for the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film.Kelly Townsend, "All My Puny Sorrows leads film nominees for 2021 DGC Awards". Playback, September 24, 2021.
Filmography The Sadness of Johnson Joe Jangles - 2004 The Tragic Story of Nling - 2006 Let the Daylight Into the Swamp - 2012 Bang Bang Baby - 2014 The Rarebit Fiend - 2015 Cinema of Sleep - 2021 The Silent Planet - 2024
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