Eric Piccoli
Director | Screenwriter
Eric Piccoli is a director-screenwriter known and awarded for the series Temps Mort (Time Dead) (International Emmy Awards), Écrivain Public (Public Writer) (Gémeaux Award for Best Director) and Wipe Me Away (4 Gémeaux Prizes, Canneseries). Eric offers a social, sensitive and naturalist cinema in which he is interested in the left behind and the flaws of the system. Still in collaboration with Florence Lafond, Éric is developing several series including Le Royal Snowdon, an adaptation of the novel La canicule des pauvres, and L’Équipe (The Team), a basketball story set in Montreal North.
In March 2023, the long-awaited second season of Wipe Me Away is finally available.
Filmography
Le Royal Snowdon
In development
TV series | based on the novel La Canicule des Pauvres by Jean-Simon DesRochers
Director | Co-written with Florence Lafond & Jean-Simon DesRochers
Production Babel films
The Team (L'Équipe)
In development
TV series | 8 x 60 minutes
Director | Co-screenwriter with Florence Lafond & Jonathan St-Armand
Avenue Productions
Wipe me away (Je voudrais qu’on m’efface)
2021
TV mini-series | 8 x 20 minutes | based on the novel by Anaïs Barbeau Lavalette
Director | Co-written with Florence Lafond
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36 Awards & 34 Official Selections
NUMIX AWARDS 2022 - Nomination Best Webseries Fiction.
Buenos Aires International Film Festival BUEIFF Webserie 2022– 2 Awards Best Director (Eric Piccoli) & Best Series
Festival Internacional De Cine De Medellín FESTMEDALLO, Colombie 2022 – Best Webseries Award
Festival de Luchon, France 2022 - Prix du Programme Court | Prix du Meilleur
Scénario (Florence Lafond, Eric Piccoli) | Prix de la Fiction Francophone Étrangère | Prix « spécial » sans drône
Gala Dynastie 2022 – Nominations Malik Gervais-Aubourg (Eddy) Best Actor & Schelby Jean-Baptiste (Louise) Best Actress
Rio Web Fest, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2021 - Nominations Best Series Drama, Best Director (Eric Piccoli) Best Casting, Best performance for a young actress Charlee-Ann Paul.
Rome International Movie Awards 2021 – 5 Awards Best Series (Babel films), Best Director (Eric Piccoli), Best supporting role (Sarah-Maxine Racicot), Best Young Actress (Charlee-Ann Paul) | Best Young Actor (Malik Gervais-Aubourg).
Marseille Series Stories 2021 – Prix du Jury de la Meilleure série adaptée d’une œuvre littéraire | Prix du public.
Official selection at Canneseries, 2021
Winner of the Dior Revelation Award (Malik Gervais-Aubourg) - Canneseries, 2021
Best Webseries Award - Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, 2021
4 Awards at th NYC Web Fest includinf Best Screenplay (Eric Piccoli and Florence Lafond)
Winner of 4 Gémeaux Awards: series, direction, screenplay and actor (Jean-Nicolas Verreault), 36th Gémeaux Awards, 2021
Winner of the "Coup de coeur" award at the Festival du Cinéma International en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, 2021
FESTIVALS
NYC Webfest - Official Selection, 2021
Marseille Series stories - Official Selection, 2021
Seriesland - Official Selection, 2021
Baltimore Next Media Webfest - Official Selection, 2021
The last felquist (Le dernier felquiste)
2020
TV Mini-Series documentary | 6 x 44 minutes
Co-direction with Flavie Payette-Renouf and Félix Rose
Production Babel films | Déferlantes pour Club illico / TVA
36e Prix Gémeaux - 4 Nominations, 2021
Public Writer (Écrivain public) (Season 3)
2020
TV Series | 5 x 26 minutes
Director and screenwriter
Production Babel films
35th Gémeaux Awards – 3 Awards including Best Production, Quebec 2020
Melbourne Webfest – Best production, Australia 2020
T.O Webfest – Best web programm : drama , Toronto 2020
Seoul Webfest - Best International Drama Series, South Korea 2020
FESTIVALS
New Zealand Webfest 2020
Ozark Webfest, USA 2020
Buffalo International Film Festival 2020
Bilbao Seriesland 2020
Sicily Webfest 2020
Austin Revolution Film Festival, USA 2021
International Online Web Festival, Londres 2021
Minnesota Webfest 2020
New Jersey Web Festival 2020
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma 2020
My father, Elvis (Mon père, Elvis
2020
Documentary short | 15 minutes
Director and writer
Production Babel Films
Festival REGARD – Best film in « Tourner à tout prix » category, Montréal 2020
Cinema on the Bayou- Special Jury Award Documentary Short, USA 2020
FESTIVALS
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma 2020
Illegal cannabis (Cannabis illégal)
2019
Documentary | 52 minutes
Director | Co-written with Simon Coutu
Vice - Télé Québec
Judith-Jasmin Award - Grand reportage
Gémeaux Award 2019 – Best Documentary Research
Gémeaux Award (Nomination) 2019 – Best Documentary Script
Revenu
2018
Short film | 5 minutes
Direction
Production Babel Films
Asia Web Awards - Best Horror, South Korea 2018
FESTIVALS
Studio City International Film Festival, LA 2018
Trieste Science + Fiction Festival, Italy 2018
Festival Spasm, Montréal 2018
Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2018
New Zealand Webfest 2018
Lund Fantastisk Film Festival, Sweden 2018
Stuff MX Film Festival, Mexico 2018
Minnesota Webfest 2018
Bilbao Seriesland 2018
Fantasia International Film Festival, Montréal 2018
Public Writer (Écrivain Public)
2018
TV series | 5 x 23 minutes
Director | Co-screenwriter
Production Babel Films
T.O. Webfest – Best script (Michel Duchesne, Eric Piccoli), Toronto 2019
Hollyweb Festival – Best actor (Emmanuel Schwartz), Los Angeles 2019
Buenos Aires Webfest – Best international series – Best script (Michel Duchesne, Eric Piccoli), 2019
Asia Web Awards – Best script (Michel Duchesne, Eric Piccoli), South Korea 2018
NYC Web Fest - Best International Drama Series, NY 2018
IAWTV Awards 2018 - Best Ensemble Cast Drama, LA 2018
Gémeaux Awards 33ème, 3 nominations including Best text for a new media (Michel Duchesne, Eric Piccoli), Montréal 2018
FESTIVALS
New Jersey Webfest 2019
Melbourne Webfest 2019
Roma Webfest 2019
Sicily Webfest 2019
die Seriale, Germany 2019
Carballo International, Spain 2019
Apulia Webfest, Italy 2019
Bogotà Webfest 2019
Miami Webfest 2019
Roma Web Fest 2018
Studio City International Film Festival, LA 2018
London Short Series Festival 2018
ITVFest Manchester 2018
Buffalo International Film Festival 2018
Bilbao Seriesland 2018
Webfest Berlin 2018
Ozark Mountain Webfest, USA 2018
Copenhagen Webfest 2018
Wendie Webfest Hamburg 2018
Le miracle
2016
Short documentary | Essay | 3 minutes
Director
Production Babel Films | Kino
FESTIVALS
Fantasia International Film Festival, Montréal 2017
Architecture & Design Film Festival, LA 2017
Festival International au court métrage du Saguenay, Québec 2017
CineGlobe Film Festival at CERN, Switzerland 2017
Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois 2017
Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2016
International Short Film Festival of Cyprus 2016
Architecture & Design Film Festival, NY 2016
Festival du Cinéma de la Ville de Québec 2016
Duhok International Film Festival, Irak 2016
C’est Right Short, Canada 2016
Projet-M
2014
Webseries | 9 x 10 minutes & Feature film | 98 minutes
Director and co-screenwriter
Production Babel Films
Gémeaux Award - Best Original Series New Media, Montréal 2014
LA Webfest - Grand Prize : Best Science Fiction Series – Best Cinematography, Los Angeles 2014
Marseille Webfest- Best Production, France 2014
Melbourne Webfest – Best Cinematography, 2014
Festival Francophone de Websérie – Best art and photo direction, France 2014
Webfest Montréal - Best visual and sound design, 2015
Hamilton Film Festival – Winner : script, editing et music, Canada 2015
Raindance Web Fest – Best Cinematography – Nomination : direction, UK 2015
Banff World Media Festival – Best Francophone Award, Canada 2014
FESTIVALS
Imagine Film Festival, Netherlands 2016
Boston SciFi Film Festival 2016
Fantasporto - Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto, Portugal 2016
Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois 2015
San Diego Film Festival (SDFF) 2014
Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) 2014
Festival du Cinéma de la ville de Québec 2014
Festival Fantasia, Montréal 2014
Lone Star Film Festival, USA 2014
Bueno Aires Rojo Sangre Film Festival 2014
Time out : the community (Temps mort : la communauté) (season 3)
2012
Webseries | 13 x 11 minutes & Feature film | 143 minutes
Director and co-screenwriter
Production Marco Frascarelli | Babel Films
Gémeaux Award 2012 – Best Series
NUMIX Award 2012 - Nomination
International Digital Emmy Awards 2013 – Nomination
Time out : on the road (Temps mort : sur la route) (season 2)
2010
Webseries | 17 x 6 minutes & Feature film | 115 minutes
Director and co-screenwriter
Production Babel Films
Banff World Media Festival - Best Online Program, Canada 2011
International Digital Emmy Awards – Nomination, USA
Gémeaux Award – Nomination 2011
NUMIX Award – Nomination 2011
FESTIVALS
Web Program Festival, France 2011
Fantasia International Film Festival 2010
Simple coup du destin
2009
Short film | 9 minutes
Director | co-screenwriter with Alexandre Richard
Production Babel films
FESTIVALS
Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois 2010
Short film corner Cannes 2009
Fantasia International Film Festival 2009