Nancy Grant

Nancy Grant is a French-Québécois Canadian film producer. She was born in the small village of Petit-Matane on the Gaspé Peninsula in the north of Quebec, Canada. She has produced multiple projects with several Quebec filmmakers including Maxime Giroux, Xavier Dolan, Denis Côté, and Anne Émond. Some of her productions are Mommy (2014), Félix et Meira (2014), and Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) (2013), which have received numerous awards at institutions including the Toronto International Film Festival, Alfred Bauer Berlin International Film Festival, Academy Awards, and Cannes Film Festival. In 2014, she was awarded Best Motion Picture for Mommy at the Canadian Screen Awards.

Grant went to McGill University in Montreal, Canada in the early 2000s, studying psychology and international development. She graduated in 2005, and shortly after realized her true passion of cinema. With Sylvain Corbeil, she founded Metafilms in Montreal in 2003. She is attracted to filmmakers with an individual voice whom she can support in long-term and frequent collaborations, including directors Xavier Dolan and Maxime Giroux.

Nancy took the main stage when she collaborated with Xavier Dolan in 2012. They have created 3 films together since then. Their first project was Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) in 2013, a film based on the play by Michel Marc Bouchard. It was a part of the main screen competition at the 70th Venice International Film Festival, in the special presentation at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, and was a leading nominee for the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards. The psychological thriller follows Tom (played by Dolan himself), a man who has suddenly lost his lover Guillaume, to a remote country home for the funeral where Guillaume's family expects a woman in his place. He decides to keep his relations with Guillaume a secret, but finds himself in an unexpected game with Guillaume's aggressive and curious brother. The film was generally well received as a Hitchcockian Montreal psychological drama thriller; suspense and secrets with country landscapes. It was also criticized for Dolan as self-obsessed screenwriter, director, co-producer, editor and actor. The film was nominated for 8 awards at the Canadian Screen Awards, and for two at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the prestigious FIPRESCI Award.

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