Pre-Drink

Pre-Drink is a Canadian dramatic short film by Marc-Antoine Lemire, which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.[1]

This article is about the film by Marc-Antoine Lemire. For the practice of getting drunk before going out socializing, see Pregaming.
Pre-Drink
Directed byMarc-Antoine Lemire
Produced byMaria Gracia Turgeon
Marc-Antoine Lemire
StarringAlex Trahan
Pascale Drevillon
CinematographyLéna Mill-Reuillard
Edited byAnouk Deschênes
Production
company
Les films de la Méduse
Midi la Nuit
Release date
  • September 17, 2017 (2017-09-17) (TIFF)
Running time
23 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The film stars Alex Trahan as Carl and Pascale Drevillon as Alexe, a gay man and a transgender woman whose longtime friendship is complicated when they decide to have sex.[2]

In December, TIFF named the film to its annual Canada's Top Ten list of the ten best Canadian short films.[3] The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards,[4] and won the Prix Iris for Best Short Film at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards.

References
  1. "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri takes home TIFF's top honour". CBC News, September 17, 2017.
  2. "Pre-Drink". Toronto International Film Festival.
  3. "Canada's Top Ten has some glaring omissions". Now, December 6, 2017.
  4. "Finalistes des Prix Écrans canadiens 2018". Films du Québec, January 16, 2018.


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