Ian Lagarde

Ian Lagarde grew up on film sets as a child actor, but made an early transition to photography and screenwriting. After majoring in film production at Concordia University in Montreal, he wrote and directed American Savannah, a feature-length documentary about America's quirky obsession with lush green lawns. The movie opened The Nature Of Things' summer season two years in a row and won a special jury prize at RIDM 2008. He then went on to write and direct six short fiction films which hit the international film festival circuit: Voeux Pieux, Board, Solar Wind (Best direction prize "Regard sur le court-métrage au Saguenay" 2012), Daybreak (Best narrative short Film at Slamdance 2014), Tentacules 8 (best international short at the Tubigen/Stuttgart french film festival 2015) and Grimaces (2016), which is starting its festival career. He also worked as a cinematographer on numerous ads, music videos, shorts, features and tv series. In 2012, he was Denis Côté's cinematographer for Vic+Flo saw a bear (Alfred Bauer Silver bear at the 63rd Berlinale 2013). In the summer of 2015, he shot two seasons of Blue Moon (Yves-Christian Fournier, 2015) and in 2016, the first season of Fatale Station (Rafaël Ouellet, 2016). He is gearing up for a return to feature film cinematography with Les Chaouins (Yan Giroux, 2018). All You Can Eat Buddha, his first feature-length fiction film as a writer-director, has been shot in Cuba and will have its world premiere at TIFF 2017.