Léa Pool
| Léa Pool | |
|---|---|
| Born |
8 September 1950 Soglio, Switzerland |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1978–present |
Léa Pool (born 8 September 1950) is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who has also teaches film at UQAM. She has directed several feature films, including Anne Trister (1986) and Emporte-moi (1999), both of which screened at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival, where the latter won the Special Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.
Pool was born in Soglio, Switzerland, and raised there, in Lausanne. Her father was Jewish, and was a Holocaust survivor from Poland; her mother's family was Christian and Swiss.
Her film À corps perdu (1988) was selected for official competition in the Venice Film Festival and her film Desire in Motion (Mouvements du désir) (1994) was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. She has been nominated 3 times for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction for her films La Femme de l'hôtel (1984), Desire in Motion (Mouvements du désir) (1994), and Emporte-moi (1999).
In 2006 she was awarded the Prix Albert-Tessier. In 2011, Pool completed the National Film Board of Canada documentary film Pink Ribbons, Inc., partly based on the 2006 book Pink Ribbons, Inc: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy, which is premiering at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
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