Eric K. Boulianne

Writer

March 19, 1985 (41 years)

La Malbaie, Québec, Canada

Biography

Éric K. Boulianne (born Damien-Éric Boulianne; March 19, 1985) is a Canadian screenwriter and actor from Québec. He is most noted as the writer of the film Before We Explode (Avant qu'on explose), for which he was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Screenplay at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019, and as cowriter with Stéphane Lafleur of the film Viking, for which they received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.

Filmography

4.7

Bon Cop, Bad Cop

David Bouchard and Martin Ward team up for an investigation that takes them across Canada after the band chief of an Indigenous community in Gaspésie mysteriously disappears. They're joined by a new cadre of cops who are just as unorthodox as they are: Gabrielle, David’s daughter, who has her father’s stubborn streak; Joe, an intrepid Micmac police officer from Gesgapegiag; and Kim, a Sureté du Québec lieutenant who is generally skeptical of David’s methods.

N/A

Web thérapie

Florence Champagne is a therapist who has very little patience for her patients. She’d had enough of listening to their problems for 50 interminable minutes at a stretch, so she invented a new kind of therapy: 3-minute online video sessions (where she usually ends up becoming the subject, by the way). If you choose her as your therapist, something’s definitely not right…

6.0

Entre deux draps

A sketch comedy presenting the daily life of four couples and two roommates of different ages and backgrounds. In a realistic tone, it explores in a raw and disarming way all facets of the couple, unfiltered in the privacy of the bedroom, one of the only places where one can truly be oneself.

6.5

Follies

After 16 years together, François and Julie open their relationship to explore sexual adventures and self-discovery. With two kids and their bond at stake, the path proves more complex than expected.

5.1

Natural Born Liar

Jerome, 35, is a yacht salesman in Nice. But if you listen to him, in his spare time Jerome is also an astronaut, a karate world champion and a close friend of Miss Universe. As a matter of fact Jerome is a compulsive liar: he lies to everyone about everything! No one believes him, but that doesn’t prevent him from accumulating more lies. But one day Jerome wakes up to find out that all his lies have come true... and it’s just the beginning of the troubles ...!

6.5

The Dishwasher

Montreal, Winter 2002. Stéphane, 19 years old, fan of Metal, student in graphic design, dreams of becoming an illustrator. But for months he has been caught in a threatening spiral: he is addicted to games. Indebted, without an apartment, avoiding his friends to whom he owes money, Stéphane takes a job as a dishwasher in a restaurant in a major Italian restaurant in Montreal in order to get by. There, he will meet Bébert, a cook who burns the candle at both ends, and Greg, a waiter with disreputable actions. Will Stéphane make it through this new job or will he fall into a downward spiral of bad choices?

5.5

Viking

Five people are recruited by the Viking Society to collaborate on the first manned mission to Mars. They were chosen because of the psychological similarities they share with the five astronauts who will travel to the red planet. These volunteers therefore form a B-team of alter egos who will experience the adventure in parallel, behind closed doors on Earth.

6.7

Compulsive Liar

Simon Aubert runs his entire life on lies. An executive at an aviation company, he lies about everything… Simon’s self-serving lies are so abundant that the universe (governed by a handful of Buddhist monks, it seems) decides to right a wrong by teaching him a lesson and making all of the lies reality on the eve of his company’s crucial meeting with a Russian businessman that Simon absolutely needs to impress in order to prevent the closure of the small-town plant where his twin brother Phil works.

6.4

Father and Guns 2

A few years after they infiltrated a therapy program for fathers and sons, Marc Laroche is having some issues with his girlfriend Alice and Jacques is experiencing intense denial towards the fact that he is growing older. An incredible opportunity arises when Martin Germain, the lieutenant of the Mafia’s leader, and his girlfriend sign up for a bootcamp for couples. As Marc and Alice sign up for the therapy, Jacques invites himself in by pretending to be the psychologist's assistant.

5.7

Compulsive Liar 2

Driven by the idea of making people around her happy, Virginie lies constantly. As her partner Phil fears, her many lies become reality and create multiverses that completely disrupt their lives and those around them.

6.5

Barbarians of the Bay

Always passionate about hockey, young Jean-Philippe Tanguay dreams of only one thing: becoming a player agent. He idolizes his cousin Yves Tanguay, a former NHL player, now playing with the Barbares de La Malbaie amateur hockey team. When the team advances to the Canadian championship, Yves convinces his young cousin to accompany him to Thunder Bay to attend the championship. The two cousins see this as a unique opportunity for their careers and will embark on a road trip that will lead them to discover the price to pay to make their dreams come true.

6.0

Little Brother

Antoine, 14-year old troublesome teenager, spends the day with his tutor, Julian. For one last time before the latter's departure to Russia, the two "brothers" mess around in the city streets.

6.7

Before We Explode

The Third World War is on the horizon. Despite attempts at nuclear deterrence, the threat of atomic bombings between North Korea and the United States is bringing the world's population back into a Cold War-like climate. In the small town of Baie-St-Paul (Québec, Canada), Pier-Luc is afraid: afraid of dying, of course, but, above all, afraid of dying before he could make love for the first time. With his buddies, Hubert and Samuel, he goes through "the summer of last chances" and takes drastic measures in order to lose his virginity... Before we explode.

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Ski-Doo

Ali, a teenage Inuit hip hop fan, lives in Ivujivik, a small Arctic village where nothing interests him. All of his problems seem to materialize in his father's old snowmobile, constantly breaking down. His only way out ? The famous Rich E. Murdoch, Ali’s favorite rapper.

6.5

Farador

Charles, Louis, and Guillaume are three friends who live together as roommates in the same house, where they spend all of their free time still playing the same Farador campaign they began as teenagers; their other friend Paul has recently moved out of the house and abandoned the game to live with his girlfriend. When Charles's sister Kim, who has recently broken up with her longtime Belgian boyfriend Tom after realizing that she might be a lesbian, moves into Paul's vacated room, her presence, and her determination to push her brother to finally take the plunge on his unrealized ambition to write and publish an erotic fantasy novel, upset the group dynamics and force them to make one last push to finally reach the Castle of Farador and end the game.

N/A

Le SNL de Magalie Lépine-Blondeau

The Quebec version of SNL is back for a TV special hosted by Magalie Lépine-Blondeau.

2.0

Heart Bomb

To follow the passion that makes his heart beat or to risk his integrity in order to reach the firmament. This is a man's ultimate dilemma when he finds himself at the edge of the precipice.

6.0

Prank

Stefie, an unremarkable teenage loner, is recruited by Martin, Jean-Sé and Lea to record their daily capers with his cellphone. The four pranksters decide to set up a stunt that go beyond anything they’ve done so far… But this time, who will be the victim? A funny and cruel coming-of-age story about love, friendship, peer pressure and loss of innocence.

N/A

Big Brother

Antoine and his former Big Brother reunite after the latter, now a father, moved to Russia several years previously. They roam the city to make up for lost time but quickly realize that their relationship is no longer the same.

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Les Royaumes de Kromaki

The first day of shooting of Realms of Kromaki, an epic medieval production shot entirely on green screen - Entirely.