Eric Canuel

Who is Eric Canuel?

Eric Canuel is a film director and actor from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Eric Canuel began his career in the mid-1980s making music videos for such artists as Paul Piché, Sass Jordan, Norman Iceberg, Vilain Pingouin and Sylvain Cossette. After shooting a number of TV commercials, several of them award-winners, he worked as a director on the television series Big Wolf on Campus, for the Fox network, and The Hunger, broadcast on Showtime and The Movie Network.

In 2000, his Imax film Hemingway: A Portrait won a Genie Award for best short documentary, as well as the Maximum Image Award for best 2D film at the Miami Aventura Imax Days. Canuel also directed Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher in 2000, Pigs Law in 2001, Nez Rouge in 2003, Last Tunnel - starring Michel Côté and Jean Lapointe - in 2004, The Outlander in 2005, and Bon Cop, Bad Cop in 2006; receiving numerous nominations and awards.

In 2010, Eric Canuel directed the episode 3x11 "Fa la Erica" of the TV series Being Erica.

Many of director Eric Canuel's productions contain a cameo appearance by Canuel.