Léa Pool

Léa Pool (born 8 September 1950) is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who has also taught film at UQAM. Her 1986 film Anne Trister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.^[1] Her 1999 film Emporte-moi was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival^[2] where it won the Special Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.^[3]

Life and career

Pool was born in Soglio,^[4] Switzerland,^[5] and raised there, in Lausanne. Her father was Jewish, and was a Holocaust survivor from Poland. Her mother's family was Christian and Swiss.^[6][7]

Her film À corps perdu (1988) was selected for official competition in the Venice Film Festival and her film Mouvements du désir (1994) was screened at the Sundance Film Festival.^[8] She has been nominated 3 times for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction for her films La Femme de l'hôtel (1984), Mouvements du désir (1994), and Emporte-moi (1999).

In 2006 she was awarded the Prix Albert-Tessier. In 2011, Pool completed the National Film Board of Canada documentary film Pink Ribbons, Inc., partly based on the 2006 book Pink Ribbons, Inc: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy, which is premiering at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.^[9]

Pool is a lesbian.^[10]

Filmography

• Strass Cafè (1980)
• La Femme de l'hôtel (1984)
• Anne Trister (1986)
• À corps perdu (1988)
• Montréal vu par... (1991, segment "Rispondetemi")
• The Savage Woman (La Demoiselle sauvage) (1991)
• Mouvements du désir (1994)
• Emporte-moi (1999)
• Lost and Delirious (2001)
• The Blue Butterfly (2004)
• Maman est chez le coiffeur (TV movie, 2008)
• La dernière fugue (2010)
• Pink Ribbons, Inc. (2011)
• The Passion of Augustine (2015)

References

External links

• Léa Pool at the Internet Movie Database