Mathieu Laverdière

Mathieu Laverdière is a Canadian cinematographer.^[1] He is a two-time winner at the Prix Iris, winning Best Cinematography at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021 for Underground (Souterrain),^[2] and Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 26th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2024 for Mother Saigon.^[3]

He is a two-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Cinematography, receiving nominations at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015 for Henri Henri^[4] and at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018 for We Are the Others (Nous sommes les autres),^[5] and received three prior Jutra/Iris nominations for Best Cinematography at the 15th Jutra Awards in 2013 for The Torrent (Le Torrent),^[6] at the 17th Jutra Awards in 2015 for Henri Henri,^[7] and at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020 for And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux).^[8]

Selected filmography

• Lost Song - 2008
• Men for Sale (Hommes à louer) - 2008
• Twice a Woman (Deux fois une femme) - 2010
• Nuit #1 - 2011
• Wintergreen (Paparmane) - 2012
• Gabrielle - 2013^[9]
• Love in the Time of Civil War (L'amour au temps de la guerre civile) - 2014^[10]
• Our Loved Ones (Les êtres chers) - 2015
• On My Mother's Side (L'Origine des espèces) - 2015
• Shambles (Maudite poutine) - 2016
• The Cyclotron - 2016
• Family First (Chien de garde) - 2018
• Before We Explode (Avant qu'on explose) - 2019
• The Acrobat (L'Acrobate) - 2019
• Laughter (Le Rire) - 2020
• Underground (Souterrain) - 2020
• A Revision (Une révision) - 2021
• Solo - 2023
• One Summer (Le temps d'un été) - 2023
• Mother Saigon - 2023