Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers

Director | Screentwriter | Actress

Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers holds a BFA in Film Production at Concordia University and an MFA in Acting at the Drama Center London (UAL). During her studies, she had the chance to perform at the Shakespeare Globe in London and The Vakthangov theatre in Moscow. She also studied Feature writing at L’INIS. Sandrine has performed music since primary school (cello and signing) and sometimes she composes scores for her films.

Sandrine wrote and directed over 15 short films that were screened in different festivals around the world. Aside from her personal projects, she had the chance to do an internship with Denis Villeneuve on Incendie and be Daniel Roby’s personal assistant on his film Louis Cyr. She also worked as a film mentor for the non-profit organization Wapikoni Mobile in different First Nation communities. Concordia University hired her to teach part-time « acting and directing for screens ». In between shootings, she offers her services as an intimacy coordinator.

Her short film Just me and you was awarded the Crystal Bear at the Berlinale, with the Grand Prix Canadien at Regard, the Grand Prize at the Hamptons Film Festival, and many more. Sandrine is currently dedicated to the release of her first feature film PAS DE CHICANE DANS MA CABANE, in theaters since June 10, 2022, and to the writing of the next LES ÉPHÉMÈRES and NOÉMIE LA NUIT.

Filmography

Pas d'chicane dans ma cabane

2022

Feature film
Director | Co-screenwriter with Maryse Latendresse
Production Forum Films

Noémie la nuit

In development

Feature film
Director | Screenwriter with Maryse Latendresse
*Recipient of the ARRQ start-up grant 2019

Soleil

In development

Feature film
Director | Screenwriter David Bouchet
Production Entract Film (Tim Ringuette)

Les éphémères (working title)

In development

Feature film
Screenwriter | Director
Production Lyla films

Carl, espion moderne

In development

Short film
Screenwriter | Director
*Finalist at SODEC Cours écrire ton cour

Fanmi

2021

Short film
Co-director with Carmine Pierre-Dufour (Screenwriter)
Production François Bonneau
*Tapped as Canada's foreign-language film contender #ForYourConsideration Best Live Action Short

Awards

Cours écrire ton court, SODEC
Candian Screen Awards 2022 - In Nomination
IRIS Quebec Cinema Awards 2022 - In Nomination
Talent Tout Court, 2021
TIFF 2021 - In Selection
Off-Courts Trouville, 2021
FNC 2021 - In Selection
Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA), 2021
Curta Cinema, 2021
Whistler Film Festival, 2021 *EDA AWARD FOR BEST FEMALE-DIRECTED SHORT FILM
Canada’s TOP 10, 2022
Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival, 2022
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, 2022
Festival Fondu au Noir, 2022
Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois et francophone (RVCQF), 2022
Aspen ShortFest, 2022
San Francisco International Film Festival, 2022
Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, 2022
International Film Festival of Ottawa, 2022

Juste moi et toi

2019

Short film
Director
Scriptwriter Luis Molinié
Production Camera obscura (Joannie Deschambault)
*Canadian Screen Awards 2020 Best Live Action Short Drama Class

Awards

Canadian Screen Awards 2020 - Best Live Action Short Drama Class
UDA Award for best male interpretation, Florin Peltea | Jury’s mention for the next generation, youths Mention du jury pour la relève, jeunes qui crèvent l’écran avec leur naturel (Émilie Bierre), Dalia Binzari – 16e Gala Prends Ça Court, 2020Class Jury Awards – Festival FILEM’ON, Belgium, 2019
Nominated for Best Narrative Short – MIAMI short FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2019
Best Editing – SAPPORO International Short Flim Festival and Market, Japon, 2019
Jury Selection for Best Narrative Short – Hamptons International Film Festival, USA, 2019
Grand Prize « Flickers International Vision Award » Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival 2019
Crystal Bear for the for the Best Short Film - Berlin International Film Festival 2019
Canadian Grand Prize - 23rd Regard Festival, Chicoutimi, 2019
FESTIVALS
Chicago International Children's Film Festival, USA, november 2019
MIAMI short FILM FESTIVAL, USA, november 2019
Sapporo Short Film International Festival, Japan, october 2019
Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece, october 2019
Cinemagic Film Festival, Ireland, october 2019
Filem’On – International Film Festival for Young Audiences, Belgium, october 2019
Festival de Cinéma de la ville de Québec, september 2019
Off-Courts Trouville, France, september 2019
울주세계산악영화제 Ulju Mountain Film Festival, South Korea, september 2019
BUSTER Film Festival, Denmark, september 2019
Les Percéides, Festival international de cinema et d’art de percé, Gaspésie, august 2019
Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA, august 2019
OFF Odense International Film Festival, Denmark, august 2019
Presented in Montreal premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival, july 28, 2019
Palm Springs Film Festival, USA, july 2019
Plymouth Rebel Film Festival, UK, july 2019
Festival Regard, Chicoutimi, march 2019

Larguer les amarres

2016

Short film
Screenwriter | Director
Production: Colonelle Films

Awards

울주세계산악영화제 Ulju Mountain Film Festival, Corée du Sud, septembre 2019
RVCQ, 2017
TIFF Kids, 2017
Aspen, 2017
Trouville, 2016
FNC, 2016
Festival du cinéma de la ville de Québec, 2016
Carrousel (Rimouski), 2016

Le truck

2015

Short film
Director | Producer

Awards

Regard sur le court-métrage – Gagnant prix Tourner à tout prix 2015
FESTIVALS
Fantasia International Film Festival, 2015
IFF Pacific Meridian in Vladivostok, Russie 2015
Encounters short Film and Animation Festival, Bristol, Angleterre 2015
Flicker, Rhodes Island Film Festival, 2015
Fantasia Film Festival, 2015
Festival de film de Québec, 2015
Festival des gens d’ici, 2015
Festival mural – court dans la rue, 2015
Mammoth film festival, 2016
Gässli, Suisse, 2016
SPASM, 2015
Ce l’ho Corto, Bologne, Italy, 2016
St-John’s International Women’s festival, 2016
Court mais trash, Belgium, 2016
Plein(s) Écran(s), 2016
TV/WEB : Pacific voice, Safax Canada

T’es pas game

2013

Short film, fiction
Writer | Director | Producer
Artistic Residency
Production: Vidéographe

Awards

Prends ça court - Gagnant prix vidéographe, 2015
FESTIVALS
Cannes Film Festival - Short Film Corner, section : Not Short on Talent
Festival du film de la relève, 2014
Fantastique weekend - Fantasia, 2014 (PRIX UDA : Best actress – Virginie Ranger-B.)
En compétition officielle – Off-Courts Trouville, 2014
Festival de Québec, 2014
Calgary film festival, 2014
Festival de Percé, 2014
Prends ça court - Gagnant prix vidéographe, 2015
LA film festival, 2015
Mammoth film festival, 2015
Festival des Rencontres du court-métrage de Bourg-en-Bresse, Public du Zoom, « Les Courts du Vendredi », 2016
TV/WEB : ARTE, TV5

Kaupunki etsii klovnia (A city hunts for a clown)

2013

Short film
Director | Producer
Co-production Canada-Finlande

Awards

One of the 5 international directors chosen to participate in the workshop RISE OF EUPHORIA
Presentation at Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & anarchy
Official Selection : Rendez-vous du cinéma Québécois, 2014
Festival du film de l’Outaouais - En compétition officielle & Sélection du jury – 2014
St-John’s women film festival

Avant demain

2013

Short film
Director | Producer
Screenwriter: Anne Castelain
As part of Réalisatrices, Tout court; In partnership with FCTNM, Kino, conseil des Arts de Montréal et la condition féminine.
Distribution: Appuie de Travelling distribution

Awards

Film screening at l’Ex Centris, 6 mai 2013
Festival du Cinéma de la Ville de Québec, 2013
Festival Parties de campagne, 2014
Seoul International Youth Film Festival, 2014

Thank god it’s the end of the world

2012

Short film
Writer | Director | Film made for Kino short film

Awards

Order for the Festival de la fin du monde, Dec. 2012
Presented at théâtre Rialto and at the National

La Nerd

2012

Short film
Writer | Director | Producer | Musical compositions
Distribution K Film Amerique

Awards

Fantasia International Film Festival 2013
Presented in theaters before the feature film GRAND CENTRAL (Rebecka Zlotowski), 2013

La Disparue

2012

Short film
Writer | Director | Producer | Musical compositions

Awards

Fantasia International Film Festival 2013

Post-it

2011

Short film
Credit Co-scénarisation et jeu
Production Émilie Ricard & INIS

Un Trou dans la mémoire

2010

Short film
Director | Co-producer | Musical compositions

Awards

Clips on the show « Pour Le Plaisir », Radio Canada
Official selection at Short Film Corner, Cannes
Finalist - Festival En Route, Air Canada
Official selection: The World Film Festival

L’enfant

2007

Short film
Director | Co-producer | Musical compositions | Editing

Awards

Special mention – Laval film festival
Sandra and Leo Kolber scholarship for creative imagination and exceptionnal team spirit

32 short Films about François Girard

2007

Short film
Director | Co-producer | Musical compositions | Editing

Awards

Special mention for direction and original music - Festival Intercollégial
Academic excellence and scolarship Jean-Pierre Mongeau (meilleur portfolio)

Portraits Intimes

2010

Multiplateform
Director | Producer | Musical compositions | Editing
6 short movies: La Nerds (with Sophie Cadieux), La nonne et le moine, L’itinérante (with Louise Bombardier), La disparue (with Audrey Lacasse), L’homme à la vague, La séductrice captive.

Awards

Participation at Zone Homa 2010

La perte des rêves à l’adolescence

2005

Documentary
Director | Editing | Musical compositions

Awards

International academic excellence - IBO (Genève)
Invited at: Forum Social Québécois 2007

Sandrine is a film director and actress based in Montreal. She also teaches acting and directing for screen at Concordia University.

With the professional concern to be at the same level as intimacy coordinators working in the USA (where the profession is now well established), she is currently completing her training with Intimacy coordinator Canada. Her mentor is Lindsay Somers. It is now with confidence that she offers her services as an intimacy scene coordinator.

Sandrine likes teamwork and is there primarily to help the vision of the director. Her role is, among other things, that of a liaison between the departments to ensure that the scenes of intimacy unfold smoothly, safely and without surprises. She also has the ability to support the director in setting up the choreography and/or to propose alternatives when this task is entreated to her.

T’es pas game

2013

Short film
Intimacy coordinator

CINEMA

Et au pire on se mariera | Blonde au party | Dir. Léa Pool | Prod: Lyla Films

La passion d’Augustine | Sœur Jeanne | Dir. Léa Pool | Prod: Lyla Films

TELEVISION

Policier criminel | Agente de filature | Dir. Stéphane Moukarzel | N12 Productions

Mensonge II | Magali | TVA

Proprio en otage | Locataire sous-sol | Dir. Stéphane

Moukarzel | Episode ‘’Roland’’

Science Ou Fiction | 1st Silent role | Point De Mire | Episode: Maigrir | Tv5

Graffiti | Chloé | Dir. Yvon Trudel | Radio-Québec

THEATRE

Hedda Gabler | Mrs. Thea Elvsted | Isben | Andrew Hawkins | Drama Centre London

The Warrant | Nadezhda | Nikolaï Erdmann | Oleg Mirochnikov | Drama Centre London

The Seagull | Masha | Anton Chekhov | Irina Pakhomova | Vakhtangov Theatre

Macbeth | Lady Macbeth | W. Shakespeare | Trevor Rawlings | Shakespeare’s Globe

Richard III | Lady Anne | W. Shakespeare | Paul Goodwin | Drama Centre London

The White Devil | Isabella | John Webster | Zoe Waites | Drama Centre London

Marriage à la mode | Philotis | John Dryden | Annie Tyson | Drama Centre London

Measure For Measure | Isabella | W. Shakespeare | Kate Bligh | Concordia

Crackwalker | Sandy | Judith Thompson | Kate Bligh | Concordia

Les Sept Portes | Femme Au Microphone | Botho Strauss | Anne Miller | Salle Brébeuf

Check, Please | Linda | Jonathan Rand | Farrell Kaufman | Concordia

Sorcière De Salem | Rebecca Nurse | Arthur Miller | Vincent Côté | Vaisseau D’or

SHORT FILMS

Shakespeare From Montreal | Lady Anne / Isabella | W. Shakespeare | Anik Salas | 400 Ans Mort De Shakespeare - Globe
Jennifer 3 | Jennifer | Mathieu Beauchemin
Ruby Pleine De Marde | Cousine Violoncelliste | Jean-G. Bastien | Jean-G. Bastien | Travelling
Le Pool | Réceptionniste | Benjamin Lussier | Benjamin Lussier | Travelling
Villeray | Judith | Mélanie St-Arnaud | Mélanie St-Arnaud | Indépendant
La Règle Du Futur C. | Alice 2 | Martine Cuillerier | Claudia Hébert | Ffm (Gagnant )
Dr. Bannantyne | Shelly | Mélanie St-Arnaud | Mélanie St-Arnaud | Concordia
Portraits Intimes | Séductrice & Nonne | S. B-Desrosiers | S.B-Desrosiers | Zone Homa
The Garden | Lover | Chelsea Owen | Chelsea Owen | Concordia
Un Peu, Beaucoup | Amoureuse | Vitalia Chukhovich | Vitalia Chukhovich | UQAM
Un Dimanche… | Fille D’anne Émond | Janie Cloutier | Janie Cloutier | Brebeuf

Dans La Rue – 25e

2013

Advertising
Director – TV ad, Métro
Conception: ZIP communication
Production: Colonelle Films

Soy - So good, parce que c’est bon

2013

Advertising
Director – TV ad
Conception: ZIP communication
Production: Colonelle Films

Oleanna, théâtre du Vaisseau d’Or - Théâtre Prospéro

2012-2013

Advertising
Director | Producer
Web advertising
Concept: Le Vaisseau d’Or

Promotional Web Clips for feature film Charlotte a du fun

2018

Director
Production : Amerique film (Martin Paul-Hus)

ARRQ – Hommage à la réalisatrice Anne Claire Poirier

2014

Corporative
Director | Musical score musicale

Ways of seeing

2013

Corporative
Director | Camera | Cinematography | Editing
Italia
Produced by LA FABRICA (United Colors of Benetton)

Louis Cyr: Assistant to the director

2012

Director Daniel Roby
Production Christal Films

Incendies: Directing intership

2009

Director Denis Villeneuve
Production micro_scope

Dresser: Canadian and american TV/films

2007-2014

Mauvais Karma, Toute la vérité, Warm Bodies, Les sœurs Elliot, Aveux, Les invincibles, and many more
Full list upon request

Concordia University

2016

Lecturer: Acting and directing for screen

Wapikoni mobile

2013-...

Tutor filmmaker in some First Nations communities

CÉGEP Marie-Victorin

2013

Guest director

Shakespeare globe

2010

Midsummer night’s dream, educational theatre

L’Épopée Imaginaire

2007-2012

Extra-curricular musicals
Acting coach | Singing professor | Musical Director – chamber orchestra | Cofounder – assistant to the producer
Employer: Jean-de-Brébeuf

Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf

2007-2010

Apparitor

INTIMACY COORDINATORS CANADA

2021

INTIMACY COORDINATORS CANADA is the leading collective of Certified Intimacy Coordinators in Canada.

INIS – Institut National de l’Image et du Son

2011-2012

Montreal
Profile: Writing Feature Film. Tutors: Benoit Guichard and Pierre Houle
In development: scenario Back To Paradise

University of Arts London

2010 - 2011

London/ Moscow
Master in « European Classical Acting » - Merit mention
Residency at Shakespeare Globe and at Vakhtangov Theatre
Full acting credits on request

Concordia University

2007 - 2010

Montréal
BAC – Specialization in Film Production - Merit mention
Sandra and Leo Kolber Scolarship – For creative imagination and exceptional team spirit (2008)
Financing assistance for the realization of: L’enfant (2008), Un Trou dans la Mémoire (2010)

Temenos Production

2009

Montreal
Laban et Grotowski

Guildhall School of Drama and Music

2008

London
Drama summer school – with Patsy Rodenburg

Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf & Vincent d’Indy

2005 - 2007

Montreal
Double DEC Arts, Lettres, Communication & Musique – Merit mention
Scholarship du millénaire, excellence scolaire, 2009
Scholarship Jean-Pierre Mongeau: Meilleur portfolio, 2007
Financing assistance for the realization of the short stories 32 shorts about François Girard
Full musical credits on request

Guest jury

Jury Main Film programme Tri(clycle) 2016-2017
Jury INIS au FIFEM 2012
Jury création au Festival international des scénaristes, à Valence (France), 2013
Jury CEGEP en spectacle, CEGEP Jean-de-Brébeuf, 2013

Associations

ARRQ | UDA | SARTEC

Special abilities and interests

Very good knowledge of: Cello, Classical singing, Opera, conductor, Composer of music (film / theater), Filmmaker (fiction, documentary), multidisciplinary performances, theatrical education, physical theater, traveler.

Interests: Acrobatics, Circus (trapeze), Mask, Dance (ballet, jazz rock), Fight (sword, street), horse riding, winter sports. Driver's license.