FRANÇOIS SÉGUIN
Production Designer / Art Director / Set Decorator
A member of the Director’s Guild of Canada (DGC) >
François Séguin studied set design at Collège Lionel Groulx in Montreal from 1971–1974 and began his professional theatre career working for François Barbeau and other leading lights of the Montreal theatre scene at prominent companies such as the Théâtre du Rideau Vert, La Nouvelle Compagnie Théâtrale (NCT), Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and the Théâtre de Quat’Sous. His first assignment as a set designer came in 1976.
He went on to work on a variety of movie, television, theatre and opera projects as well as three circus productions in Canada and abroad. He has worked with writer and director François Girard many times, designing the sets for such epic films as Le violon rouge / The Red Violin, Silk, and most recently Hochelaga, Terre des Âmes. They also worked together on several theatre and opera productions including critically acclaimed En attendant Godot, the oratorio called Lost Objects, for New York’s Bang on the Can, and a double bill staging of Bertolt Brecht’s The Lindberg Flight/The Flight Over the Ocean and The Seven Deadly Sins, which played in Edinburgh and Wellington, New Zealand. Their project Le Fusil de chasse received the prestigious prix Yumiuri in 2011. In 2015 the film Brooklyn, directed by John Crowley, was nominated for Picture of the Year.
Some people would say that when I’m designing a movie I’m theatrical and when I’m designing a theatre set it’s more cinematic
It’s true, sometimes I make a very emotional set for a movie but when I do stage I’m trying not to be so emotional.
François Séguin
He has many other notable film and television credits including the TV series Carnival Row (2019), The Borgias (2010), and Million Dollar Babies (1996) as well as the films The Song of Names (2019), The Karate Kid (2010), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005), Les Invasions Barbares (The Barbarian Invasions) (2003), Afterglow (1997), Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994), Love & Human Remains (1993), Léolo (1992) and Jésus de Montréal (Jesus of Montreal) (1989).
“Portrait de François Séguin” La Presse 2007
Representation Online:
Cinematheque Quebeçois: Online Collection
book excerpt: Inside the Historical Film – By Bruno Ramirez
Films du Québec
Association coopérative de productions audio-visuelles
lesgens du cinema
Danish Film Institute
www.gomolo.com
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