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Marie-Hélène Turcotte (1971, Joliette, Quebec, Canada[1]) is a Canadian animation film director and artist. She studied architecture and produced two short animated films.[2]
In 2010, Turcotte directed a short film The Formation of Clouds. It was shown on a number of festivals including the 2010 Montreal Animation Film Festival[3] and won the prizes of the 2011 Filmfest Dresden as the best animation film[4] and of the 2011 International Film Festival for Youth in Vancouver as the Most Innovative Short Film.[5]
Her short film Red of the Yew Tree was aired in the Short Cuts program at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival,[6] at the Animafest Zagreb,[1] and at the 2017 GLAS Animation Film Festival.[7] For this film, Turcotte (jointly with Felix Dufour-Laperrière, the editor) was shortlisted for a 2017 Canadian Screen Award in the Best Animated Short category.[8] Turcotte herself said about the film that the red berries symbolize the blood loss of women and refers to offspring; the yew was recognized by Ancient Greeks and Romans as a symbol of life and death.[9]
Turcotte said in an interview that after completing Red of the Yew Tree she started to work on a new short film, MC, on a man living in a city.[9]
- The Formation of Clouds (French: La formation des nuages, 2010)[10]
- Red of the Yew Tree (French: If ou le rouge perdu, 2016)[2]
- M. Carreaux, (2020)
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