Jeffrey St. Jules is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, who won the Claude Jutra Award in 2015 for his debut feature film Bang Bang Baby.
[2] Originally from Fall River, Nova Scotia,[3] St. Jules studied creative writing and film at Concordia University.
[3] Prior to making Bang Bang Baby, St. Jules wrote and directed a number of short films, including The Sadness of Johnson Joe Jangles, The Tragic Story of Nling, The Long Autumn,[4] Let the Daylight Into the Swamp and a music video for Apostle of Hustle's "National Anthem of Nowhere".
He won the Jackson-Triggs Award for Best Emerging Canadian Filmmaker at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival in 2005 for Joe Jangles,[5] and in the same year became the first Canadian film director ever admitted to the Cannes Film Festival's residency program for emerging filmmakers.
[8] St. Jules received a nomination for the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film.