Film graduate is cinematographer on Incendies

André Turpin, a graduate of Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema (BFA 89 film production), worked as the cinematographer on the Denis Villeneuve critically acclaimed film Incendies.

Incendies, which is Canada's official foreign film nominee for 2011 Oscar consideration, has already won Best Canadian Feature Film at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.

Turpin is a renowned filmmaker in his own right and has been described as the country’s best cinematographer by eyeweekly.com. Born in Hull, he has been living in Montreal since his student days and is a seriously experimental risk-taking director of photography who also shot Denis Villeneuve's Maelstrom (2000) and Un 32 Aout sur terre (1998).

Turpin's other cinematography credits include Jean-Philippe Duval's Matron et mar (1999) Arto Paragamian's Because Why (1993) and Marc Andre Former's surrealistic autobiographical La Comtesse in Baton Rouge (1995). Produced by the indie company Jeux d'Ombres, Turpin's first try at directing a feature film was Zigrail followed by Une Crabe dans la tete.

Related links:
•    Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
•    Incendies