{{Short description|Canadian film director and screenwriter}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox person | name = Marquise Lepage | image = Marquise Lepage (2018).jpg | caption =Marquise Lepage at the [[cinémathèque québécoise]] in 2018 | birth_name = Marquise Lepage | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|09|06}} | birth_place = Chénéville, Quebec, Canada | occupation = Screenwriter, director, producer | years_active = 1983–present | children = 2 }}
'''Marquise Lepage''' (born September 6, 1959, in [[Chénéville, Quebec|Chénéville]], [[Quebec]]),<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/205206/Marquise-Lepage/biography|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160309092046/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/205206/Marquise-Lepage/biography|url-status = dead|archive-date = 2016-03-09|department = Movies & TV Dept.|work = [[The New York Times]]|date = 2016|title = Marquise Lepage - Biography - Movies & TV - NYTimes.com|access-date = 2016-03-02}}</ref> is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] ([[French-speaking Quebecer|Québécoise]]) producer, screenwriter, and film and television director. She is best known for her 1987 feature ''[[Marie in the City]] (Marie s'en va-t-en ville)'',<ref>"Impressive debut". ''[[Vancouver Sun]]'', October 22, 1987.</ref> for which she received a nomination for Best Director at the 9th [[Genie Awards]] in 1988.<ref>"Night Zoo thriller sets Genie record; Lauzon film wins 14 nominations". ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'', February 17, 1988.</ref> She was also a nominee for [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama|Best Live Action Short Drama]] at the [[14th Genie Awards]] in 1993 for ''[[Your Country, My Country]] (Dans ton pays)''. She was hired by the [[National Film Board]] (NFB) as a filmmaker in 1991.<ref>"Film board hires 6". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', May 31, 1991.</ref> One of her first major projects for the NFB was ''[[The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché]]'', a documentary about female cinema pioneer [[Alice Guy-Blaché]].<ref>"Documentary honors first female filmmaker". ''[[Kingston Whig-Standard]].'' March 2, 1995.</ref>
Her other credits have included the documentary films ''Un soleil entre deux nuages'',<ref>"Drop everything tonight to tune in: Un soleil entre deux nuages". ''[[Montreal Gazette]].'' March 10, 1989.</ref> ''Of Hopscotch and Little Girls'',<ref>"Two film solitudes?: Producer pulls films from Genies in favour of new Jutras". ''[[Montreal Gazette]].'' November 23, 1998.</ref> ''Ma vie, c'est le théâtre'' and ''Martha of the North'', the feature films ''La fête des rois''<ref>"Where are the new Claude Jutras?" ''[[The Globe and Mail]].'' February 9, 1995.</ref> and ''Ce qu'il ne faut pas dire'',<ref>"Dark drama, refined comedy; Love is a four-letter word for protagonist who has been burned by the concept in the past". ''[[Montreal Gazette]].'' May 29, 2015.</ref> and episodes of the television documentary series ''[[Canada: A People's History]]''.
Lepage is known for directing fiction films and documentaries with a social twist. In an interview in 2015, she declared herself a [[Feminism|feminist]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lesmeconnus.net/ce-quil-ne-faut-pas-dire-rencontre-avec-marquise-lepage/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150601040153/http://www.lesmeconnus.net/ce-quil-ne-faut-pas-dire-rencontre-avec-marquise-lepage/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=June 1, 2015|title=Ce qu'il ne faut pas dire : rencontre avec Marquise Lepage|website=Les Méconnus|date=May 28, 2015|language=fr-FR|access-date=2016-03-29}}</ref>
Lepage presided Quebec's film directors' association and Réalisatrices Équitables, a militant organization advocating equality between female and male filmmakers.
In 2008, she created her own production company, Les Productions du Cerf-Volant. The first fiction film she directed and produced for the company was '' [[One Night Stand: A Modern Love Story]] (Ce qu'il ne faut pas dire)'', which came out in theatres in May 2015.<ref name=":0" />
Her most recent film, ''[[Apapacho]]'', was released in 2019.
== Early life and education == Born in 1959, Lepage is the seventh child of a family of nine.<ref name=":8">Cloutier, Mario. "Femme de coeur." ''[[La Presse (Canadian newspaper)|La Presse]]'' (in French). 5 January 1995.</ref> The first film she saw as a child was [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]]’s ''[[Bambi]]''.<ref name=":8" /> After high school, she went on to study social sciences at [[Cégep de Saint-Jérôme]].<ref name=":3" /> She had no family members working in the film business and had only basic knowledge of cinema when she decided to pursue her post-secondary studies in Communications at the [[Université du Québec à Montréal]] (UQÀM): ''"I knew nothing about the industry or anyone who had anything to do with cinema ... I walked into it with great naivety. But it served me. If I had seen the big picture and all that it takes to succeed, I might have been scared!"'' <ref>{{Cite book|title=40 ans de vues rêvées: L'imaginaire des cinéastes québécoises depuis 1972|last1=Lupien|first1=Anna|last2=Navarro|first2=Pascale|publisher=Éditions Somme toute|year=2014|isbn=978-2-924283-06-6|location=Montreal|pages=178}}</ref> She went on to complete a Masters in Film Studies at [[Université de Montréal]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/#!marquise-lepage/mpvle|title=Marquise Lepage|website=Les Productions du Cerf-Volant|access-date=March 8, 2016|archive-date=September 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160905231749/http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/#!marquise-lepage/mpvle|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=40 ans de vues rêvées|last1=Lupien|last2=Navarro|pages=177}}</ref>
== Personal life == Lepage has two children, twins Alice and Jérémie, born in 1995.<ref name=":9" /> She named her daughter after [[Alice Guy-Blaché]], about whom she made the documentary ''[[The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché|The Lost Garden]] ([[Le Jardin oublié]]'') in 1995.<ref name=":9">Roberge, Huguette. "Le Jardin oublié." ''[[La Presse (Canadian newspaper)|La Presse]]'' (in French). 21 October 1995.</ref> Marquise has been living in the [[Villeray, Montreal|Villeray]] neighborhood of [[Montreal]] for over 20 years. In 2015, in order to finance the post-production of her latest feature film ''Ce qu’il ne faut pas dire'' (''[[One Night Stand: A Modern Love Story]]''), she decided to sell the house where she raised her children.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/cinema-quebecois/201505/23/01-4871979-ce-quil-ne-faut-pas-dire-le-poids-des-mots-et-la-legerete-de-letre.php|title=Ce qu'il ne faut pas dire: le poids des mots et la légèreté de l'être {{!}} Sylvie St-Jacques {{!}} Cinéma québécois|website=La Presse|date=May 24, 2015|language=fr-CA|access-date=2016-03-09|last1=St-Jacques |first1=Sylvie }}</ref>
== Career == Lepage’s career began in 1983, when she became an associate for production company Les Productions du Lundi matin,<ref name=":3" /> which had notable Quebec film producer [[Marcel Simard]] at its head. Simard gave Lepage her first break when she directed ''[[Marie s’en va-t-en ville]],'' her first feature film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/cinema/284635/marcel-simard-1945-2010-je-suis-en-deuil-et-en-colere|title=Marcel Simard, 1945-2010 - Je suis en deuil... et en colère!|website=Le Devoir| date=March 10, 2010 |access-date=2016-03-14}}</ref> The movie is about a love story between Marie, a thirteen year-old runaway, and Sarah, a prostitute in her forties.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Soucy|first=Linda|date=1987|title=Marie s'en va-t-en ville: Vérités et mensonges|url=https://www.erudit.org/culture/images1058019/images1076731/22198ac.pdf|journal=24 Images|access-date=13 March 2016}}</ref> Lepage stayed with the Les Productions du Lundi matin until 1991.<ref name=":3" />
In 1991, she was hired by the [[National Film Board of Canada]] (NFB) where she worked until 1994.<ref name=":3" /> There, she directed ''[[Your Country, My Country]] (Dans ton pays)'', a short film about two elementary-school classmates from different racial groups who become friends.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nfb.ca/film/dans_ton_pays/?__utma=210378314.1104660839.1457059272.1457490146.1457917872.7&__utmb=210378314.4.10.1457917872&__utmc=210378314&__utmx=-&__utmz=210378314.1457917872.7.5.utmcsr=google%7Cutmccn=(organic)%7Cutmcmd=organic%7Cutmctr=(not%2520provided)&__utmv=210378314.%7C1=Anonymous=Anonymous=1&__utmk=209445585|title=Dans ton pays|last=Canada|first=National Film Board of|website=NFB.ca|access-date=2016-03-14}}</ref> She also directed her second feature film, a children’s movie titled ''[[La fête des rois]]'', starring a young [[Marc-André Grondin]].<ref>[http://collections.cinematheque.qc.ca/recherche/en/oeuvres/fiche/8081-la-fete-des-rois "Cinematic Works | La fête des rois"].''Cinémathèque québécoise''. Retrieved 2016-03-14.</ref>
Lepage was president of the Association des réalisateurs et réalisatrices du Québec (ARRQ) for two years, from 1990 to 1991.<ref>{{Cite book|title=1974-2014: L'ARRQ, 40 ans d'occupation|last=Lupien|first=Lucette|publisher=Association des réalisateurs et réalisatrices du Québec|year=2014|location=Montreal|pages=37}}</ref>
From 2007 to 2012, she was president of Réalisatrices Équitables (RÉ), which she initiated with the help of other [[French-speaking Quebecer|québécoises]] filmmakers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://realisatrices-equitables.com/about-us/|title=About Us - Réalisatrices Équitables|website=Réalisatrices Équitables|language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-14}}</ref> RÉ is "a non-profit organization founded in 2007. Its members are Québec female professional film directors".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://realisatrices-equitables.com/history/|title=History - Réalisatrices Équitables|website=Réalisatrices Équitables|language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-14}}</ref>
Lepage founded Les Productions du Cerf-Volant in 2008. After producing several web projects and TV movies on her own, she wrote, directed, and produced ''[[One Night Stand: A Modern Love Story]],'' a mix between a romantic comedy and a drama. It tells the story a young filmmaker in her thirties (played by [[Annick Fontaine]]) who has a heavy secret which complicates her already unstable love life.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rmwfilmfest.org/films/one-night-stand-modern-love-story|title=One Night Stand, A Modern Love Story|website=Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival|access-date=29 March 2016}}</ref> The film was produced independently, without the help of Canadian funding institutions. Some of the funds were raised through a crowdfunding campaign on [[Indiegogo]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/201505/26/49-6825-ce-quil-ne-faut-pas-dire.php|title=Ce qu'il ne faut pas dire|website=La Presse|language=fr-CA|access-date=2016-03-29}}</ref> The initial goal was $15,000 but she raised $16,780 in two months.<ref>[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ce-qu-il-ne-faut-pas-dire/x/13333643#/story "Ce qu'il ne faut pas dire"]. ''Indiegogo'' (in French). Retrieved 2016-03-29.</ref> The film was released on May 29th, 2016 in two theatres, one in [[Montreal]] and another in [[Quebec City]]. It remained in theatres for two weeks and was ranked 18th among 32 other Quebec films in terms of admissions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmsquebec.com/entrees-en-salles-films-quebecois-2015/|title=Entrées en salles des films québécois de 2015|website=Films du Québec|access-date=2016-03-29}}</ref>
Marquise is currently working on a new fiction film, titled ''[[Apapacho]]'', a Spanish word meaning "cuddle". The project will be a co-production between [[Canada]] and [[Mexico]] and the filming will take place in [[Quebec]] and in a small village in Mexico. Lepage has already received some financing from institutions in both countries and she is currently working on the screenplay. The film will tell the story of two sisters who travel to Mexico together following their other sister's death. It is set to star Mexican actress [[Sofía Espinosa]] and three actresses from Quebec which have yet to be cast.<ref name=":5" />
== Filmmaking style and work philosophy == Lepage has written, directed, and produced documentaries and fiction films in various formats (feature-length, shorts, etc.): "When asked why she does both (fiction and documentary), she answers jokingly that she still does not know what she will do when she grows up."<ref name=":6">{{Cite book|title=40 ans de vues rêvées|last1=Lupien|last2=Navarro|pages=180}}</ref>
Interviewed about her preference for screenwriting or directing, Lepage answers:<blockquote>''"These crafts are complementary but I like screenwriting because it is a painstaking task, which is done alone. On the other hand, directing is like a big party full of people. And filming is not always carried out in ideal conditions. We don't always have time to think."'' <ref>{{Cite journal|last=Madore|first=Édith|date=1987|title=Entretien avec Marquise Lepage|url=http://www.erudit.org/culture/cb1068900/cb1134068/34570ac.pdf|journal=Ciné-Bulles|volume=6|number=4|page=35|access-date=29 March 2016}}</ref></blockquote> Lepage says she loves working with the same collaborators over and over: "''From one time to the next, we learn to know each other, to understand each other, and often even to love each other. What happens on a film set is very special."'' <ref name=":6" />
A perpetual issue explored in Lepage's works, both documentaries and fictions, is childhood and injustices affecting children.<ref name=":7">{{Cite book|title=40 ans de vues rêvées|last1=Lupien|last2=Navarro|pages=181}}</ref> She received the [[Golden Sheaf Awards|Golden Sheaf Award]] for Best Social Documentary for ''[[Of Hopscotch and Little Girls]] (Des marelles et des petites filles)'' in 2000,<ref name=":4" /> a movie which tells the story of girls around the world who suffer from poverty, forced labour or sexual abuse.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nfb.ca/film/of_hopscotch_and_little_girls/?__utma=210378314.1104660839.1457059272.1457917872.1459212663.8&__utmb=210378314.1.10.1459212663&__utmc=210378314&__utmx=-&__utmz=210378314.1459212663.8.6.utmcsr=google%7Cutmccn=(organic)%7Cutmcmd=organic%7Cutmctr=(not%2520provided)&__utmv=210378314.%7C1=Anonymous=Anonymous=1&__utmk=251718346|title=Of Hopscotch and Little Girls...|last=Canada|first=National Film Board of|website=NFB.ca|access-date=2016-03-29}}</ref>
Lepage is preoccupied with discrimination made against women, but also with the underrepresentation of women in the film industry: "''The imagination and creativity of women are not exploited enough on screen. It seems to me that a gap that needs to be filled''."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Castiel|first=Élie|date=1994|title=Marquise Lepage: famille, je vous aime|url=http://www.erudit.org/culture/sequences1081634/sequences1154269/49864ac.pdf|journal=Séquences: La revue du cinéma|issue=172|page=13|access-date=29 March 2016}}</ref> Her concerns were at the basis of her documentary ''[[Alice Guy-Blaché|The Lost Garden]]'' (''Le Jardin oublié'') about French-American filmmaker [[Alice Guy-Blaché]] who lived from 1873 to 1968<ref name=":7" /> and directed over 1,000 films but was forgotten by history. The film won Best Auteur Documentary at the [[Prix Gémeaux|Gémeaux Awards]] in 1996.<ref name=":10" />
Lepage's preoccupation with social injustices was reflected in her 2009 feature documentary ''[[Martha of the North]]'' (''Martha qui vient du froid''). It tells the story of [[Martha Flaherty]], granddaughter of documentarian [[Robert J. Flaherty|Robert Flaherty]], who, along with her family and dozen other [[Inuit]], was "displaced by the Canadian government and left to their own devices in the Far North" in the 1950s as part of the [[High Arctic relocation]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.onf.ca/film/martha_of_the_north|title=Martha of the North|last=Canada|first=Office national du film du|website=ONF.ca|access-date=2016-03-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/201207/23/49-1449-martha-qui-vient-du-froid.php|title=Martha qui vient du froid|website=La Presse|language=fr-CA|access-date=2016-03-30}}</ref> It took over two years for Marquise to convince Martha to tell her story and it took more than six years of production before the film was released.<ref>[http://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/nouvelles/201207/17/01-4552055-cinq-questions-a-marquise-lepage.php "Cinq questions à Marquise Lepage | Mario Cloutier | Nouvelles"]. ''La Presse'' (in French). Retrieved 2016-03-30</ref> The film was well received by critics and was nominated for Best Screenplay at the [[Prix Gémeaux|Gémeaux Awards]].<ref name=":11" /> On August 18, 2010, following its release, the Canadian [[Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs|Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development]], "issued an apology to Inuit relocatees, their families, and all Inuit, for relocating Inuit families to the High Arctic and for the hardship and suffering caused by the relocation."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://aptn.ca/reelinsights/more-insight/martha-of-the-north-2/|title=Reel Insights: Martha of the North|website=APTN|access-date=29 March 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411045707/http://aptn.ca/reelinsights/more-insight/martha-of-the-north-2/|archive-date=April 11, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
In ''[[Martha of the North]]'', as in many of her other films, Lepage uses conventions proper to both fiction and documentary: <blockquote>''"I believe a film should not suffer because parts of the story are poorly served from an iconographic point of view. The strength of fiction is that it allows us to enter in contact with the emotions more directly. Whether in fiction or documentary, it is important to feel for the real or fictitious characters. If people come out of the theatre and they haven't been touched by the film, we've missed our goal!"'' <ref>{{Cite book|title=40 ans de vues rêvées|last1=Lupien|last2=Navarro|pages=179}}</ref></blockquote>In 2013, as a sequel to ''Martha of the North'', Lepage released the documentary web series and educational website ''Iqqaumavara.'' The website presents 12 short films and some information about the [[High Arctic relocation]]. It is available in French, English and [[Inuktitut]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iqqaumavara.com/ |title=Home |website=iqqaumavara.com}}</ref>
In a 1987 interview, Marquise said her work was influenced, among others, by the Quebecois films ''[[Good Riddance (film)|Good Riddance]] (Les Bons débarras)'', ''[[Sonatine (1984 film)|Sonatine]]'', and ''[[It Can't Be Winter, We Haven't Had Summer Yet]] (Ça peut pas être l'hiver, on n'a même pas eu d'été)''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Madore|date=1987|title=Entretien avec Marquise Lepage|journal=Ciné-Bulles|pages=34–35}}</ref>
==Works==
===Films=== {| class="wikitable" !Year !Type !Title !Credit/Role !Note(s) !Ref. |- |1987 |Fiction |''[[Marie in the City]] (Marie s’en va-t-en ville)'' |Writer/director |Best Foreign Film at the Belfort Festival (France); Best actress at the [[Gijón International Film Festival]] (Spain);
4 nominations at the Canadian [[Gemini Awards]] |<ref>[http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/#!blank-3/as3s7 "Marie s'en va-t-en ville"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160905231749/http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/#!blank-3/as3s7 |date=September 5, 2016 }}. ''Productions du Cerf-Volant''. Retrieved 2016-03-09.</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Lepage|first=Marquise|title=Marie s'en va-t-en ville|date=2000-01-01|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093498/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_14|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref> |- |1989 |Documentary |''Un soleil entre deux nuages'' |Writer/director |[[Prix Gémeaux|Gémeaux Award]] for Best Editing (Canada) Ecumenical Prize at [[Visions du Réel]] in Nyon, Switzerland
Library Award at [[Cinéma du Réel]] festival (Paris). |<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cinemadureel.org/en/archives/award-lists-since-1979|title=Award list since 1979 — Cinéma du Réel|website=www.cinemadureel.org|access-date=2016-03-09|archive-date=February 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218054248/http://www.cinemadureel.org/en/archives/award-lists-since-1979|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/#!un-soleil-entre-deux-nuages/meqml "Un soleil entre deux nuages"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160905231749/http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/#!un-soleil-entre-deux-nuages/meqml |date=September 5, 2016 }}. ''Productions du Cerf-Volant''. Retrieved 2016-03-09.</ref>
<ref>{{Citation|last=Lepage|first=Marquise|title=Un soleil entre deux nuages|date=2000-01-01|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0226562/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_13|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref> |- |1993 |Short film |''[[Your Country, My Country]] (Dans ton pays)'' |Writer/Co-director |Nominated for Best Live Action Short Drama at [[14th Gemini Awards]]. |<ref>[http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/#!dans-ton-pays/wzfj9 "Dans ton pays".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160905231749/http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/#!dans-ton-pays/wzfj9 |date=September 5, 2016 }} ''Productions du Cerf-Volant''. Retrieved 2016-03-09.</ref><ref>{{Citation|last1=Lepage|first1=Marquise|title=Dans ton pays...|date=2000-01-01|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216658/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_12|last2=Teufel|first2=Dagmar|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref> |- |1994 |Fiction |''La fête des rois'' |Writer/Director | |<ref>{{Citation|last=Lepage|first=Marquise|title=La fête des rois|date=2000-01-01|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109861/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_11|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref> |- |1995 |Documentary |''[[The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché|The Lost Garden]]: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché'' ''(Le'' ''Jardin oublié)'' |Co-writer/Director |[[Prix Gémeaux|Gémeaux Award]] for Best Auteur Documentary in 1996; Bronze Apple at National Educational Media Network Competition (Oakland, California);
Special Mention at [[Columbus International Film Festival]] (Ohio, US). |<ref name=":10">[http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/#!blank-2/q706j "Le Jardin oublié".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160905231749/http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/#!blank-2/q706j |date=September 5, 2016 }} ''Productions du Cerf-Volant''. Retrieved 2016-03-09.</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Lepage|first=Marquise|title=Le jardin oublié: La vie et l'oeuvre d'Alice Guy-Blaché|date=2000-01-01|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113692/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_10|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref> |- |2000 |Documentary |''[[Of Hopscotch and Little Girls]] (Des marelles et des petites filles)'' |Writer/Director |Bologna Film Festival, First Audience Award (2001); [[Prix Gémeaux|Gémeaux Awards]]: Best Documentary, Best Research, Best Editing;
[[Golden Sheaf Awards|Golden Sheaf Award]]: Best Social Documentary (Canada);
Grand Jury Prize, Communications and Society, Montréal (Canada);
Bronze Plaque, [[Columbus International Film Festival]] (Ohio, US);
Youth Award and Prix de l’État du Valais at Festival International Médias Nord-Sud (Geneva, Switzerland);
Special mention at [[Torino Film Festival|Turin Film Festival]] (Italy). |<ref name=":4">[http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/#!des-marelles-et-des-petites-filles/wl3k1 "Des marelles et des petites filles"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160905231749/http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/#!des-marelles-et-des-petites-filles/wl3k1 |date=September 5, 2016 }}.''Productions du Cerf-Volant''. Retrieved 2016-03-09.</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Lepage|first=Marquise|title=Of Hopscotch and Little Girls: Stolen Childhood|date=2000-01-01|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2271517/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_9|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref> |- |2007 |Documentary |''Des billes, dans ballons et des garçons'' |Writer/Director | | |- |2009 |Documentary |''[[Martha of the North]] (Martha qui vient du froid)'' |Co-writer/Director |Nominated at [[Prix Gémeaux|Gémeaux Awards]] for Best Screenplay. |<ref name=":11">[http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/#!martha-qui-vient-du-froid/b2med "Martha qui vient du froid"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160905231749/http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/#!martha-qui-vient-du-froid/b2med |date=September 5, 2016 }}.''Productions du Cerf-Volant''. Retrieved 2016-03-09.</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Lepage|first=Marquise|title=Martha of the North|date=2009-01-23|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2308825/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_5|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref> |- |2015 |Fiction |''[[One Night Stand: A Modern Love Story]] (Ce qu'il ne faut pas dire)'' |Write/Director/Producer |Funded through crowdfunding. |<ref>{{Citation|last=Lepage|first=Marquise|title=Ce qu'il ne faut pas dire|date=2015-05-29|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5171816/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref><ref>[http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/#!ce-quil-ne-faut-pas-dire/ju695 "Accueil - Productions du Cerf-Volant"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160905231749/http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/#!ce-quil-ne-faut-pas-dire/ju695 |date=September 5, 2016 }}. ''Productions du Cerf-Volant''. Retrieved 2016-03-09.</ref> |- |2019 |Fiction |''[[Apapacho]]'' |Writer/Director/Co-producer |Co-production between Canada and Mexico. |<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=http://www.qfq.com/recherche&srch=Marquise&srch=Lepage®ion=Canada&pos=1|title=Marquise Lepage développe une coproduction avec le Mexique|last=Baillargeon|first=Judith|date=March 3, 2016|website=Qui fait Quoi|access-date=March 8, 2016}}</ref> |}
=== Television === {| class="wikitable" !Year !Type !Title !Credit/Role !Note(s) !Ref. |- |1992 |Documentary |''Mon Amérique à moi'' |Director/writer |Co-produced by the [[National Film Board of Canada|NFB]]. |<ref>[http://collections.cinematheque.qc.ca/recherche/en/oeuvres/fiche/1843-mon-amerique-a-moi "Mon Amérique à moi"]. ''Cinematic Works.'' Cinémathèque québécoise. Retrieved 2016-03-09.</ref> |- |1997 |TV series |''Les aventures de la court échelle II'', 3 episodes (collective) |Director/writer |3 episodes: ''Les fleurs de Caroline'' (won Best Children Series at [[Prix Gémeaux|Gémeaux Awards]]), ''Une ville imaginaire'', ''Toute la beauté du monde'' |<ref name=":1" /> <ref>[http://collections.cinematheque.qc.ca/recherche/en/oeuvres/fiche/67219-les-aventures-de-la-courte-echelle-ii "Les aventures de la court échelle II"]. ''Cinematic Works''. Cinémathèque québécoise. Retrieved 2016-03-09.</ref> |- |2001 |Documentary |''[[Canada: A People's History|Canada: A People’s History]]'' |Director |2 episodes: ''Years of Hope and Anger'', ''Comfort and Fear'' (part two). For [[CBC Television|CBC]]. |<ref>{{Citation|last1=Lepage|first1=Marquise|title=Comfort and Fear 1946-1964|date=2001-11-04|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1948278/?ref_=ttep_ep6|last2=Teskey|first2=Susan|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Lepage|first=Marquise|title=Years of Hope and Anger 1964-1976|date=2001-11-11|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1948282/?ref_=ttep_ep7|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref>
<ref>[http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/productionsducerfvolant/marquise-lepage/filmographie-television/histoire-du-canada-une-histoire-populaire "Filmographie: Histoire du Canada, une histoire populaire"]. ''Productions du Cerf-Volant''. Retrieved 2016-03-09.</ref> |- |2004 |Documentary |''Ma vie c’est le théâtre'' |Director/writer |1 episode. For [[Télé-Québec]]. |<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.arrq.qc.ca/index.php?vSection=recherche&vOption=bottin&vAlpha=L&vCodePRS=510#|title=Marquise Lepage|website=Association des réalisateurs et réalisatrices du Québec|access-date=9 March 2016}}</ref> |- |2005 |Documentary series |''Les délateurs'' |Director/writer |3 episodes (45 minutes each). For [[TVA (Canada)|TVA]]. |<ref name=":1" /> |- |2005 |Documentary-fiction |''Le rouge et le noir au service du blanc: L’esclavage en Nouvelle-France'' |Director/writer |1 episode. For [[Télé-Québec]] and [[TV5 Québec Canada|TV5]]. |<ref name=":1" /> |- |2006 |Documentary |''Par tous les seins'' |Director/Writer |1 episode (45 minutes). For [[Canal Vie]]. |<ref name=":1" /> |- |2006 |Documentary |''Jacques Parizeau, l’homme derrière le complet'' |Director/writer |1 episode (120 minutes). For [[Ici Radio-Canada Télé|Radio-Canada]] (SRC). Nominated for Best Documentary (portrait) at [[Prix Gémeaux|Gémeaux Awards]]. |<ref name=":1" /> |- |2008 |Documentary |''Vive les fêtes!'' |Director |1 episode. |<ref name=":1" /> |- |2009 |Documentary |''[[Arctic Exile]]'' |Director/Writer |1episode. For [[CBC Television|CBC]]. |<ref name=":1" /> |- |2009-2010 |Documentary |''Sexe, tendresse, caresses… pour corps malade'' |Director/Writer/Co-producer |1 episode. |<ref name=":1" /> |- |2011-2012 |Documentary |''La troisième guerre mondiale'' |Director/writer |1 episode. For [[Ici RDI|RDI]]/[[Ici Radio-Canada Télé|Radio-Canada]]. |<ref name=":1" /> |}
=== Other === {| class="wikitable" !Year !Type !Title !Credit/Role !Note(s) !Ref. |- |2011 |Web series |''Les mots et les gestes qui soignent'' |Director/Writer/Producer |Website created to inform cancer patients and their family. |<ref name=":2">[http://www.productionsducerf-volant.ca/filmographie "Filmographie - Productions du Cerf-Volant"]. ''Productions du Cerf-Volant''. Retrieved 2016-03-09.</ref> |- |2012 |Short video capsule |''Jeanne Mance co-fondatrice de Montréal'' |Director/Writer |Created for the Town of Montreal. |<ref name=":2" /> |- |2012 |TV series short |''Les dames aux caméras'' |Director/Writer/Producer |Directed 1 episode. For [[TV5 Québec Canada|TV5]]. |<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Citation|title=Les dames aux caméras|date=2012-09-01|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2752398/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_2|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref> |- |2013 |Documentary webseries |''Iqqaumavara'' |Director/Writer/Producer |Multiple short documentaries/interviews. |<ref name=":1" /> |}
== Distinctions and awards == * 2009: Women of Distinction Award in Arts and culture, Women's Y Foundation<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ydesfemmesmtl.org/Fr/Qu_estce_quunefemmedmerite.html|title=Prix Femmes de mérite|website=www.ydesfemmesmtl.org|access-date=2016-03-14}}</ref> * 1999: Names Artiste pour la paix, Les Artistes pour la paix<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artistespourlapaix.org/?p=9485|title=Qui sera l'Artiste pour la Paix de l'année ? – Les Artistes pour la Paix|website=www.artistespourlapaix.org|access-date=2016-03-14}}</ref> * 1991: Woman of the Year in the field of Arts<ref name=":3" /> * 1990: Invited to Hollywood for the event "A New Wave from Québec"<ref name=":3" /> * 1988: Quebec representative at the Tokyo Film Festival<ref name=":3" />
== Various contributions == Source:<ref name=":3" /> * 2007-2009: Board Member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television * 2001-2003: Collaborator at the [[Institut national de l'image et du son]] (INIS) * 1999-2001: Hired as director for [[Ici Radio-Canada Télé|Radio-Canada]] * 1991-1994: Hired as director for the [[National Film Board of Canada]] (NFB) * 1990-1991: President of the Association of filmmakers and directors of Quebec (ARRQ) * 1983-1991: Associate and Board Member of les Productions du Lundi matin * 1997: Lecturer in Cinema department at [[Université du Québec à Montréal]] (UQÀM) * 1996: Lecturer in Cinema department at [[Université de Montréal]] (UdeM) * Jury member for national and international festivals. * Writer for various publications. * Mentor to young screenwriters and male and female filmmakers. * Volunteer for various organizations.
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
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