LÉA POOL

Léa Pool (Geneva, 8 September 1950) is a Canadian naturalized Swiss film director, screenwriter and producer.
Openly lesbian, Léa Pool was born in Switzerland and emigrated to Québec in 1975.
In 1978, he received a degree in communication for the University of Quebec in Montreal. Since then he has made numerous documentaries, short films and feature films, including for television.
Since the beginning of his career, Léa Pool film has followed a unique approach. In 1978, he co-directed Laurent Lamerre, portier and then wrote, directed and produced Café Strass, a 16mm short film, winning in four festivals, including that of Seals in France in 1981.
From 1980 to 1983, he directed for Radio-Québec (now Télé-Québec) ten episodes of the Planète series on cultural minorities and the following year, Éva en transit dedicated to the French singer Éva.
From 1978 to 1983 he taught at the University of Quebec in Montreal taking courses on film and video.
His 1986 film Anne Trister took part in the thirty-sixth Berlin International Film Festival. Thirteen years later still in Berlin his 1999 film Emporte-moi, with Karine Vanasse, Pascale Bussières and Miki Manojlović, won the Special Jury Prize at the forty-ninth edition of the Berlinale.
His film A Corpo Corps (À corps perdu) was selected in competition at the Venice International Film Festival in 1988 and his 1994 film Mouvements du désir was presented at the Sundance Film Festival.
In her career she was nominated three times for the Genie Award in the Best Achievement category in Direction for her films La Femme de l'hôtel (1984), Mouvements du désir (1994), and Emporte-moi (1999).