Jean-Claude Lauzon
Jean -Claude Lauzon ( born September 29, 1953 in Montréal, † August 10, 1997 near Kuujjuaq, Quebec ) was a Canadian film director.
Lauzon studied at a university in Montréal, where he also shot his first short film. Attracted attention was on him by his first feature film Night Zoo - Creatures of the Night ( Un zoo la nuit ), which caused a sensation at the Film Festival of Cannes and for 1988 he won two Genie Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay.
In 1992 he made his second feature film Leolo with which he was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes and, inter alia, Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay was awarded. The strongly autobiographical work of high poetic and at the same time surreal tells the story of a boy in the midst of a family that experienced the viewer gradually as getting crazier and before the boy can save himself only in his fantasy world: "Because I dream, I 'm not. "
While he was working on his third feature film, he died along with his girlfriend, actress Marie -Soleil Tougas, in a plane crash in a controlled his own Cessna.