The top local film of the year is La Desse des mouches feu, a 90s Saguenay-set coming of age story that avoids the afterschool-special pitfalls of the genre its the story of a teenage freefall into hedonism, based on a novel by Genevive Pettersen. Its popularity with our readers pushed its director Anas Barbeau-Lavalette to #4 Best Filmmaker, a category topped once again by Denis Villeneuve, whose Dune adaptation has been a victim of COVID delays but will finally come out in theatres on Oct. 1. Not surprisingly, Old Montreals pimped out gallery\/Virtual Reality hub came out on top in the new Best Multidisciplinary Art Space category, while Best Visual Artist (also new) features multifaceted visual\/sound artist Marc Gagnon, graphic designer Pony, street artist Stikki Peaches as well as two artists whose work is currently on display at the MMFA, Caroline Monnet and Manuel Mathieu.<\/p>\n
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