Renée Beaulieu

Canadian film director and screenwriter

Renée Beaulieu is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, whose debut feature film Adrien (Le Garagiste) was released in 2015.^[1]

Originally from Trois-Pistoles, Quebec,^[2] Beaulieu worked as a pharmacist until deciding to leave her job and return to film school.^[2] She is now a professor of film studies at the Université de Montréal.^[1]

Her first screenplay, Le ring, was directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette in 2007.^[2] She also later wrote and directed the short films Qui, Coupable and Le Vide before making Le Garagiste, whose central theme of a man coming to terms with his mortality while suffering from kidney disease was inspired by one of her final clients as a pharmacist.^[3]

Beaulieu was also the editor of Le Garagiste. At the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016, she was a nominee for Best Editing.^[4]

Filmography

Adrien (Le Garagiste) - 2015
Les Salopes, or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin - 2018
Inès - 2021

References

^ ^a ^b "Renée Beaulieu et Le garagiste: la liberté à tout prix". La Presse, November 2, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Renée Beaulieu: de pharmacienne à Garagiste". La Presse, October 30, 2015.
^ "Un premier long métrage pour Renée Beaulieu". Le Journal de Chambly, September 29, 2015.
^ "2016 Canadian Screen Awards nominees: ‘Rookie Blue,’ ‘Vikings,’ ‘Big Brother Canada’ nominated". Global News, January 19, 2016.