[6] In 2023 he won a Young Directors Award for "Talk Away the Dark", a public service spot for suicide prevention.
[7] René-Lortie graduated from Montreal’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema with a degree in Film Production.
[8][1] After graduating, he began his career as director of narrative music videos.
His music videos La Nuée (2021) and Wrap Me Up (2021) were both nominated at for a Juno Award.
[9] In 2016, he co-founded the production company Telescope Films with partners Samuel Caron and Alexandre Nour.