Manon Briand

{{short description|Canadian film director and screenwriter|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| name = Manon Briand

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|01|01}}

| birth_place = Baie-Comeau, Quebec

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| nationality = Canadian

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| occupation = film director, screenwriter

| known_for = Cosmos, Liverpool

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Manon Briand (born January 1, 1964, in Baie-Comeau, Quebec)[http://tiff.net/CANADIANFILMENCYCLOPEDIA/content/bios/manon-briand Manon Briand] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108065456/http://tiff.net/CANADIANFILMENCYCLOPEDIA/content/bios/manon-briand |date=2014-01-08 }} at Toronto International Film Festival's Canadian Film Encyclopedia. is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. After graduating in film studies from Concordia University, Briand went to France to study screenwriting in 1987. Returning home, she co-founded an independent filmmakers’ group, Les Films de l’Autre, and soon began directing. Her films include Letters of Transit (Les Sauf-conduits), a segment in Cosmos, 2 Seconds, Chaos and Desire, Liverpool and the television film Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story.[https://archive.today/20140108054109/http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/09/11/manon-briands-liverpool-the-bigger-the-actors-the-bigger-the-port-you-need-to-hold-them/ "Manon Briand’s Liverpool: The bigger the actors, the bigger the port you need to hold them"]. National Post, September 11, 2012.

In 2023 she entered production on her latest feature film, All Stirred Up! (Tous toqués).Charles-Henri Ramond, [https://www.filmsquebec.com/ca-tourne-pour-manon-briand/ "Ça tourne pour Manon Briand"]. Films du Québec, September 14, 2023.