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= hMarquise Lepage = Marquise Lepage (born September 6, 1959 in Chénéville, Quebec), is a Canadian (Québécoise) producer, screenwriter, and film director (...) for which she received a nomination for Best Director at the 9th Genie Awards in 1988.

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Lepage presided Quebec's film directors association, the ARRQ, and Réalisatrices Équitables, a militant organization advocating equality between female and male filmmakers. She created her own production company Les Productions du Cerf-Volant Inc. in 2008.

Early life and education
Born in 1959, Marquise Lepage was the seventh child of a family of nine. The first film she saw as a kid is Disney’s Bambi. She studied social sciences at Cégep de Saint-Jérôme. She had no family members who worked in the film business and had only basic knowledge of cinema when she decided to pursue her post-secondary studies in communications at UQÀM. She then completed a Masters in Film Studies at Université de Montréal.

Personal life
Marquise has been living in the Montreal neighborhood of Villeray for more than 20 years. In 2015, in order to finance the post-production of her latest feature film Ce qu’il ne faut pas dire (One Night Stand: A Modern Love Story), she decided to sell the house were she raised her children. Lepage has two kids, twins Alice and Jérémie, who were born in 1995. She named her daughter after Alice Guy-Blaché, about whom she made the documentary The Lost Garden (Le Jardin oublié) in 1995.

Career
Marquise Lepage’s career began around 1983, when she became an associate for the production company les Productions du Lundi matin, which had notable Quebec film producer Marcel Simard at its head. Simard was the first to give Lepage her chance and she directed her first feature film Marie s’en va-t-en ville with his help. She stayed with the company until 1991.

Following that, she was hired by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), where she worked until 1994. There, she directed Dans ton pays, a short film about two elementary school classmates from different racial groups who become friends. She also directed her second feature film at that time, a children’s movie titled La fête des rois, starring a young Marc-André Grondin.

Lepage was President of the Association des réalisateurs et réalisatrices du Québec (ARRQ) in 1990 and 1991.

From 2007 to 2012, she was President of Réalisatrices Équitables, “"a non-profit organization founded in 2007. Its members are Québec female professional film directors" which she initiated with a few other québécoises filmmakers.

Marie in the City (Marie s'en va-t-en ville)

The Lost Garden (Le Jardin oublié)

Of Hopscotch and Little Girls (Des marelles et des petites filles)

Martha of the North (Martha qui vient du froid)

One Night Stand: A Modern Love Story (Ce qu'il ne faut pas dire)

Apapacho

Distinctions
2009: Women of Distinction Award in Arts and culture, Women's Y Foundation

1999: Names Artiste pour la paix, Les Artistes pour la paix

1991: Woman of the Year in the field of Arts

1990: Invited to Hollywood for the event "A New Wave from Québec"

1988: Quebec representative at the Tokyo Film Festival

(Some References to use)
Lupien, Anna, Pascale Navarro, Elodie Francois, and Joelle Currat. 40 Ans De Vues Rêvées: L'imaginaire Des Cinéastes Québé́coises Depuis 1972. Comp. Marquise Lepage. Montréal: Réalisatrices Équitables/Éditions Somme Toute, 2014. Print.

Pallister, Janis L., and Ruth A. Hottell. French-speaking Women Documentarians: A Guide. New York: P. Lang, 2005. Print.

Pallister, Janis L., and Ruth A. Hottell. Noteworthy Francophone Women Directors: A Sequel. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2011. Print.

The Cinémathèque québécoise website:  http://collections.cinematheque.qc.ca/recherche/oeuvres/?operator%5B0%5D=+&q%5B0%5D=%22Marquise+Lepage%22&field%5B0%5D=Realisation_r

http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/205206/Marquise-Lepage/biography