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Marcel Beaulieu

Marcel Beaulieu is a Canadian screenwriter, of 35 years experience.

He has written or co-written some eighty screenplays, almost all for the big screen. He won the Best Swiss Movie of the Year prize for Séverine Cornamusaz’ “Coeur Animal”, the Best Screenplay Award at the Namur Film Festival for Francis Leclerc’s ‘Looking for Alexander’ and the Fespaco Best Screenplay Award in 2015 for Belkacem Hadjadj’s “Fadhma N’Soumer”.

The movies he has worked on have won more than 200 national or international prizes, including one Golden Globe, for Gerard Corbiau’s “Farinelli”. He has also given screenwriting workshops around the world, from Yaoundé to Algiers, in Burkina Faso, Mali, Switzerland, the Republic of Congo, Beirut, Cairo and Marrakesh.

He has been a consultant for Le Groupe Ouest in Brittany since 2007.