LUC MONTPELLIER is an award‐winning Cinematographer whose
work has entertained and engaged feature film audiences, festival cinephiles and television
viewers alike since 1994. He is equally at home interpreting the perspective of avant‐garde directors such as Guy Maddin for The Saddest Music in the World, auteur directors such as Sarah
Polley, Ruba Nadda and Clement Virgo as well as seeking a broad commercial audience for Greg Spottiswood, Ken Finkleman. Luc’s many film credits including Sarah Polley’s Academy Award® nominated directorial debut, Away From Her (Lions Gate) which premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, as well as Polley’s Genie and ACTRA Award‐winning short film, I
Shout Love, Ruba Nadda’s Sabah and Cairo Time, which won Best Canadian Feature at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, as well as Nadda’s upcoming feature, Inescapable, the multiaward‐
winning Poor Boy’s Game for Clement Virgo, Jamie Thraves’ thriller, Cry of the Owl (BBC/Myriad/Sienna), Stephen Kay’s horror film, Cell 213 (Access), Paolo Barzman’s Emotional Arithmetic, for which Montpellier received a Cinematography nomination from the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, and Asghar Massombagi’s 2001 FIPRESCI Award winner, Khaled, which also earned Montpellier the Haskell Wexler Award. In 2000, Montpellier won a CSC Award for Best Cinematography for Phillip Barker’s Soul Cages. His television credits include such shows as “King,” the new police drama from Shaw Media, “Flashpoint,” (CTV/CBS), “Being Erica”
(Temple Street/BBC/CBC), Crash & Burn, (Showcase) Gary Burns’ “Northern Town,” (CBC/Foundry Films) for which he received a 2007 Genie nomination, “Hemingway vs. Callaghan,” (CBC) for which he won a 2003 Genie for Best Photography, the Ken Finkleman miniseries “At the Hotel” (CBC) and “Foreign Objects,” and “Dark Oracle” (Shaftesbury).