Talent Guide

Clement Virgo

  • Discipline:Director, Producer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2008

Bio

Clement Virgo is one of Canada’s foremost feature film directors. His latest feature, the boxing drama Poor Boy’s Game, premiered at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival, and was presented as a Special Selection at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. It won best film and audience choice awards at the Atlantic Film Festival and Calgary International Film Festival, 2007. Virgo’s Lie With Me caused a stir at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival for its artistically daring portrayal of explicit sexual themes. Starring Lauren Lee Smith (The L Word) and Eric Balfour (Six Feet Under), Lie With Me had its European premiere at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival.

Current Project

ENTER THE CIPHER (NARRATIVE FEATURE)

Logline

A sheltered white journalist befriends a Brooklyn gang member and aspiring rapper, and is drawn, moth-like, into the flames of his seductive and violent world.