
François Girard
Biography
François Girard (born January 12, 1963) is a French-Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Born in Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit. In 1990, he produced his first feature film, Cargo; he attained international recognition following his 1993 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, a series of vignettes about the life of piano prodigy Glenn Gould. In 1998, he wrote and directed The Red Violin, which follows the ownership of a red violin over several centuries. The Red Violin won an Academy Award for Best Original Soundtrack, thirteen Genie Awards and nine Jutra Awards.
He has also directed various works for the stage, including Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, Oedipus Rex and Novencento at the Edinburgh International Festival; Kafka's The Trial at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa; the oratorio Lost Objects at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Siegfried in Toronto; and The Lindbergh Flight and The Seven Deadly Sins, first in Lyon and then in Edinburgh. Girard has also produced a residency show for Cirque du Soleil, Zed , in Tokyo and Zarkana, which will open at Radio City Music Hall in New York in the summer of 2011.
His television credits include Le dortoir, Peter Gabriel's Secret World and The Sound of the Carceri, one of the six episodes of Yo Yo Ma Inspired by Bach.
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Acting (4 movies)
Directing (18 movies)

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
1993

The Red Violin
1998

Silk
2007
Le Dortoir
1991

Bach Cello Suite #2: The Sound of the Carceri
1998

Peter Gabriel: Secret World Live
1994

Cargo
1990

The Metropolitan Opera: Lohengrin
2023

Boychoir
2015

Parsifal
2013

Cirque du Soleil: Zarkana
2016

Souvenirs d'Othello
1995

Hochelaga, Land of Souls
2017

猟銃
2023

The Song of Names
2019

Le Train
1985

The Metropolitan Opera: The Flying Dutchman
2020

Cirque du Soleil: The Surreal World of Zarkana
2011
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Cargo | 1990 | Writer |
| Le Dortoir | 1991 | Writer |
| Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould | 1993 | Screenplay |
| Souvenirs d'Othello | 1995 | Writer |
| The Red Violin | 1998 | Writer |
| Silk | 2007 | Screenplay |
| Cirque du Soleil: Zed in Tokyo | 2013 | Writer |
| Cirque du Soleil: Zarkana | 2016 | Writer |
| Hochelaga, Land of Souls | 2017 | Writer |


