Jason Lapeyre

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Jason Lapeyre is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. His first feature, Cold Blooded, won Best Canadian Film at the Fantasia film festival, and his second feature, I Declare War, was an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival and won the Audience Award for Best Film at Fantastic Fest. It was released theatrically by Drafthouse Films. He also directed the documentary film Faceless, about an inpatient psychiatry unit. Most recently he directed the true crime documentary The Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot for Discovery+.

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The Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot

In 1991, Wanda Holloway was arrested for trying to hire a hit man to kill her daughter Shanna's cheerleading rival so that Shanna could get a place on the team. Now, Shanna reveals the truth behind what happened for the first time.

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2024

Monkey on a Stick

The story of the Hare Krishna movement in the West, contrasting the spiritual exploration of its devotees with the leadership's systemic, long-term cover-up of criminality, moral decay and abuse of power.

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2024

The Lockpicker

A teenage thief tries to leave town to escape the violence that threatens him and he people he loves.

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2018

The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer

This short animation presents the haunting story of two brothers who share the scars, though not the memories, of an untold history that has driven them to existential extremes.

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2014

Portrait as a Random Act of Violence

Evoking themes of protest, destruction, and resurrection, this beguiling new work from visual artist Randall Okita transposes three-dimensional kinetic sculptures to the cinema screen.

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2013

Faceless

Faceless is a documentary film about the workings of an inpatient psychiatry unit, seen through the eyes of both the patients trying to get well and the staff trying to help them.

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2012

The Captured Bird

A darkly poetic fable that begins with a little girl drawing figures of people with chalk on the cement of a playground. She takes notice of an unusual crack in the pavement that is seeping a mysterious black fluid, which she follows to an ominous building. Inside, she encounters several bizarre phenomena, including walls that bleed black and tentacles that emerge from the ceiling to touch her. She then witnesses the birth of five terrifying supernatural beings that threaten the existence of her world.

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2012