Eric K. Boulianne

Eric K. Boulianne is one of the most prolific Canadian screenwriters of his generation. He explores auteur cinema as much as mainstream cinema. He wrote or co-wrote, among others, the short film Little Brother (Petit Frère) (selected at the 53rd Cannes Critics’ Week and screened at more than 60 international festivals), the sequel to the popular success De Père En Flic (bigger Canadian box office in 2017) as well as PRANK (selected for the 31st Venice Film Festival Critics’ Week). Since 2019, no less than 6 feature films scripted or co-scripted by Eric K. Boulianne have been released: Before We Explode (Avant Qu’on Explose) (nominated in the best screenplay category at the Québec Cinéma 2019 gala), Compulsive Liar (Menteur) (biggest box office Canadian in 2019), Les Barbares de la Malbaie, Viking (in competition in the Platform section of TIFF 2022), Farador (in which he also plays the main role) and The Dishwasher (Le Plongeur) (nearly a million at the Quebec box office) . Recently, Making Babies (Faire Un Enfant), a short film he wrote and directed, had its international premiere at the Locarno Film Festival where it won the prize for Best Director in the Pardi di domani section.

Works

Happily Married

In 1974, in the quiet suburb of Sainte-Foy, two discontented couples bring their kids to summer camp. Once home, they must face the pitiful state their marriages are in. Unable to deal with their problems, they become the most infamous criminals in the history of organized crime in Quebec City.

Release Date2020-09-16

Charactersd Frère Lavoie

Episode Count3

Vote Count14

The Marina

By the summer of his 19th birthday, Charlie Hall, champion wakeboarder, doesn’t know if he’ll ever get back on a wakeboard following an injury. When he flees his anguish and uncertainty by going to his cousin Noah’s house in the town of Chambly, he meets Juliette, a young employee of the local marina. The chemistry clicks and the two youngsters develop a unique relationship that only has as obstacles the fear of their ambitions.

Release Date2020-08-27

Charactersd Coach (voice)

Peak Everything

Adam is a kind-hearted kennel-owner. Hypersensitive and borderline depressed, Adam orders a therapeutic solar lamp. Through the lamp’s supplier's technical support line, he meets Tina, a radiant woman with a voice that soothes all of his worries. This unexpected encounter changes everything: Earth trembles, and hearts explode… It's love!

Release Date2025-08-08

Charactersd Frank

Vote Count2

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.

Release Date2016-09-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd

Vote Count4

Follies

François and Julie, together for 16 years and parents of two children, can no longer connect intimately. They decide to open up their relationship in order to engage in sexual follies that will allow them to learn more about themselves.

Release Date2026-01-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd François

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.

Release Date2022-09-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Ami souper

Vote Count31

Haute démolition

Release Date2023-03-16

Charactersd Olivier

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

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.

Release Date2021-10-08

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Big Brother

Game(R)

Release Date2017-04-03

Charactersd FLUX

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

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.

Release Date2014-05-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd

Vote Count1

The Fall of Sparta

When we are young, we sometimes feel that the world is stacked against us. This is the case for 16 year-old Steeve Simard (Lévi Doré), who is entering his last year at Gaston-Miron High School in St-Lambert. A cynical intellectual with a critical view of himself and the world, he struggles to establish bonds with his parents and peers. He only has one friend: Virgil (Jonathan St-Armand). In order to evade his loneliness and fill a void in his imagination, he seeks refuge in his books and music. However, an incident with the star of the Spartans football team, will force Steeve to come out of his shell and face his destiny…

Release Date2018-06-01

Charactersd Professeur d'éduc - Frédérick

Vote Count18

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?

Release Date2023-08-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Christian

Vote Count12

Vile & Miserable

In a world where books and cars share a sales floor, a misanthropic and immortal bookselling demon is forced to team up with a young, enthusiastic human assistant to save his bookstore.

Release Date2025-02-07

Charactersd Denis

Vote Count3

L'Affaire Dumont

Michel Dumont is charged, judged and sentenced for a rape he denies ever having committed. While he serves his time in prison, Solange, who he fell in love with during his trial, embarks on the colossal task of proving his innocence and having the court rehabilitate him.

Release Date2012-09-12

Charactersd St-Arnaud

Vote Count13

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.

Release Date2023-04-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Charles / Farador

Vote Count8

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.

Release Date2019-07-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Technicien 2

Vote Count1

Making Babies

After many years together, a couple decides to have a baby. Throughout their relentless efforts, the partners try to maintain their love and unity. MAKING BABIES is a minimalist comedy drama that takes a bittersweet look at a couple’s life, with its doubts, its challenges and its resilience.

Release Date2023-10-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Lui

Vote Count1

Les brigands de l'hôtel bleu

Release Date2015-10-08

Charactersd Étienne / Stéphane

The Music Lesson

Seb, mariachi musician by night and guitar teacher by day, is by all accounts, a failed artist. Like a ghost wandering through his own life, Seb follows outside expectations and comically drifts further away from his dream of becoming a songwriter.

Release Date2021-01-01

Charactersd Eric

Les Royaumes de Kromaki

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

Release Date2012-02-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Réalisateur

Le plongeur : du livre à l’écran

Release Date2023-02-17

Charactersd Self

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 ...!

Release Date2022-07-13

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count230

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.

Release Date2021-01-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

Bon Cop, Bad Cop

Bon Cop, Bad Cop

Two officers team up for an investigation that takes them across Canada after the band chief of an Indigenous community disappears. Several other equally unorthodox cops join them on the search.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Web thérapie

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…

Release Date2016-06-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count44

La Guérite

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

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.

Release Date2022-03-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

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.

Release Date2025-07-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Fred a faim

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Compulsive Liar

A remake of the French-Canadian film of the same name

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

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.

Release Date2017-07-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count30

Monsieur Thibault

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

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.

Release Date2019-07-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count27

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.

Release Date2019-03-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

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.

Release Date2019-11-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

Le SNL de Magalie Lépine-Blondeau

Release Date2018-01-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Le Chevreuil

Release Date2012-06-06

Robeth

Beth is 31 and, since yesterday, single. She lives alone with an old cat found in her alleyway and barely makes a living working at her sister's café. Beth is also a robot. Beth is in a strange place, really.

Release Date2016-08-01

There Are No False Undertakings

Fiction bleeds into reality. Women declare themselves pregnant with the letter E! Denzel Washington plays himself in a popular sitcom. Chaos reigns and cops crave poetry. Mélusine Catafor abandons her identity in the city of Three-Rivers to seek a new one in Montreal where she hopes to learn English and where her best friend, Marie-Cobra Tremblay strives to birth an Odyssey. Rosaire, a melancholic pastor, organizes a major conference on Impossible Loves. Also, you'll meet La Renarde who hides a hole-punch in her coat. You'll learn the hole-punch is a formidable weapon used to pierce the ears of alley cats. As you can imagine, it's a comedy.

Release Date2020-10-07

Vote Count2