Sonia Bonspille Boileau

Online cinema

• Rustic Oracle
  

  • Fiction
  • Drame
  • 98 min
  • anglais
  • 2019

• Le dep
  

  • Fiction
  • Drame
  • 77 min
  • français
  • 2015

Filmography

• Rustic Oracle

  • Fiction
  • Drame
  • 98 min
  • anglais
  • 2019
  Rustic Oracle raconte l’histoire d’Ivy, une fillette de 8 ans, alors qu’elle accompagne sa mère (Susan) dans un « road trip » à la recherche de sa sœur ainée, Heather, disparue… Main theme: Autochtones, Secondary theme(s): Enfant-famille, Femmes.
  Distribution : Seventh Screen
  Diffusion : Vancouver International Film Festival, 2019 - American Indian Film Festival - Dunedin International Film Festival - Festival Filministes, 2020 - St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival - imagineNATIVE - Kingston Canadian Film Festival -

• Le dep

  • Fiction
  • Drame
  • 77 min
  • français
  • 2015
  Le dep est un drame psychologique qui raconte l’histoire de Lydia, une jeune femme innue, qui travaille au dépanneur de son père dans une petite communauté autochtone du Québec. Un… Main theme: Femmes, Secondary theme(s): Santé.
  Prix : Meilleur long métrage (fiction) – Sante Fe Independent Film Festival 2016
  Mention Honorable – Festival du Cinéma Québécois de Biscarrosse, France 2016
  Mention Honorable – Best First Feature – Vancouver International Film Festival 2015
  Nominations: meilleure réalisation, meilleur long métrage - American Indian Film Festival 2015
  Nominations – Meilleur premier long métrage - Raindance Film Festival (London) 2015
  
  
  Distribution : K Films
  Diffusion : Sélection officielle: En compétition – Forum of Independents - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2015 - Vancouver International Film Festival 2015 - Raindance Film Festival 2015 - ImagineNATIVE Film Festival 2015 - Available Light Film Festival 2016 - Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois 2016 - Maoriland New Zealand FF 2016 - Diffusion télé: APTN, Radio-Canada, Illico sur demande, Bell sur demande

BIOGRAPHY

Sonia is a bilingual Mohawk filmmaker who has been working for the past decade at bringing Indigenous content to the screen for viewers of all cultural backgrounds. In 2015 Sonia wrote and directed her first feature film Le Dep, which made the official selection of several prestigious festivals around the world. She also made a feature documentary about the impacts of the 1990 Oka Crisis called The Oka Legacy, which earned her a Golden Sheaf award at the 2016 Yorkton Film Festival. Beyond film and television Sonia is still very much involved in community-based and corporate productions that focus on the wellbeing of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Sonia is also the 2016 recipient of the APTN Award of Distinction given during the Montreal’s First Peoples Festival and is currently in production of her second dramatic feature film.

Date of birth : 21 August 1979

AREAS OF ACTIVITY

• Documentaire, Fiction
• Court métrage, Long métrage, Série, Interactif
• Film, Télévision