François Girard(I)
- Director
- Writer
- Additional Crew
François Girard was born in Quebec in 1963. Best known for his movie
writing and directing (Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The
red Violin, Silk...), Girard also directed a number of plays and operas
including PARSIFAL at the Metropolitan Opera. He also wrote and
directed two Cirque du Soleil shows; Zed and Zarkana.
In 1993, his feature film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
would go on to garner international success including four top Genie
Awards. Five years later he directed The Red Violin which received an
Academy Award for best original score and enshrined Girard as an
important player on the international movie scene. The film also won
eight Genie Awards and nine Jutra Awards. SILK, which he directed, was
adapted from Alessandro Baricco's best-selling book, and was released
worldwide in 2007 and received four Jutra Awards.
Girard's 1994 concert film Peter Gabriel's Secret World became a best
selling film and earned him a Grammy Award. A few years later he
directed one of the six episodes of the internationally acclaimed
series Yo-yo Ma Inspired by Bach.
In 1997, François Girard made his opera directorial debut with Oedipus
rex / Symphony of Psalms by Stravinsky and Cocteau which received
numerous awards and was named by The Guardian "the best theatrical show
of the year. Other opera works include Lost Objects for the Brooklyn
Academy of Music; Wagner's Siegfried; the Flight of Lindbergh / Seven
deadly Sins from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht; as well as Kaija
Saariaho's Émilie. His most recent opera work is Parsifal which earned
him and the Metropolitan Opera Company a remarkable critical success.
For the stage, Girard also directed Alessandro Barrico's Novecento;
Kafka's Trial and Yasushi Inoue's Hunting Gun. He is currently working
on a new production of Waiting for Godot.
Girard is a three-time winner of the much-coveted Herald Angel Award
for Best Production at the Edinburgh Festival.
In recent years, Cirque du Soleil's commissioned Girard to write and
direct ZED, their first permanent show in Tokyo; and Zarkana which
opened at Radio City Music Hall, played at the Kremlin Theatre and has
become a resident show in Las Vegas.
writing and directing (Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The
red Violin, Silk...), Girard also directed a number of plays and operas
including PARSIFAL at the Metropolitan Opera. He also wrote and
directed two Cirque du Soleil shows; Zed and Zarkana.
In 1993, his feature film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
would go on to garner international success including four top Genie
Awards. Five years later he directed The Red Violin which received an
Academy Award for best original score and enshrined Girard as an
important player on the international movie scene. The film also won
eight Genie Awards and nine Jutra Awards. SILK, which he directed, was
adapted from Alessandro Baricco's best-selling book, and was released
worldwide in 2007 and received four Jutra Awards.
Girard's 1994 concert film Peter Gabriel's Secret World became a best
selling film and earned him a Grammy Award. A few years later he
directed one of the six episodes of the internationally acclaimed
series Yo-yo Ma Inspired by Bach.
In 1997, François Girard made his opera directorial debut with Oedipus
rex / Symphony of Psalms by Stravinsky and Cocteau which received
numerous awards and was named by The Guardian "the best theatrical show
of the year. Other opera works include Lost Objects for the Brooklyn
Academy of Music; Wagner's Siegfried; the Flight of Lindbergh / Seven
deadly Sins from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht; as well as Kaija
Saariaho's Émilie. His most recent opera work is Parsifal which earned
him and the Metropolitan Opera Company a remarkable critical success.
For the stage, Girard also directed Alessandro Barrico's Novecento;
Kafka's Trial and Yasushi Inoue's Hunting Gun. He is currently working
on a new production of Waiting for Godot.
Girard is a three-time winner of the much-coveted Herald Angel Award
for Best Production at the Edinburgh Festival.
In recent years, Cirque du Soleil's commissioned Girard to write and
direct ZED, their first permanent show in Tokyo; and Zarkana which
opened at Radio City Music Hall, played at the Kremlin Theatre and has
become a resident show in Las Vegas.