Bio
Ian Lagarde grew up on film sets as a child actor, but made an early transition to photography and screenwriting.
After majoring in film production at Concordia University in Montreal, he wrote and directed American Savannah, a feature-length documentary about America's quirky obsession with lush green lawns. The movie opened The Nature Of Things' summer season two years in a row and won a Special Jury prize at RIDM 2008.
He then went on to write and direct six short fiction films which hit the international film festival circuit: Voeux Pieux, Board, Solar Wind (Best Direction prize "Regard sur le court-métrage au Saguenay" 2012), Daybreak (Best Narrative Short Film at Slamdance 2014), Tentacules 8 (Best International Short at the Tubigen/Stuttgart French film festival 2015) and Grimaces (2016), which is starting its festival career.
He also worked as a cinematographer on numerous ads, music videos, shorts, features and tv series. In 2012, he was Denis Côté's cinematographer for Vic+Flo Saw A Bear (Alfred Bauer Silver Bear at the 63rd Berlinale 2013). In the summer of 2015, he shot two seasons of Blue Moon (Yves-Christian Fournier, 2015) and in 2016, the first season of Fatale Station (Rafaël Ouellet, 2016).
All You Can Eat Buddha, his first feature-length fiction film as a writer-director, has been shot in Cuba and is now in post-production.