Jean-François Leduc is a film director born on November 11, 1972 in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec

Quebec

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, Canada

Canada

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. He has worked on various Canadian films but is mostly known for producing and directing Die Alive

Die Alive

Die Alive is a Canadian feature film directed by JF Leduc. It was shot on DV in 2000 and released on DVD in 2002.Die Alive is a comedy that tells the story of a no-budget film crew attempting to shoot a horror film in an abandoned hospital that turns out to be really haunted.According to director...

in 2001

2001 in film

The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...

, a low-budget feature film which obtained a Guinness World Record as "Least Expensive Feature Film".

In 2009, with the help and encouragements of Roger Corman

Roger Corman

Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...

, he co-founded Montreal Film Studio and is currently acting as its principal producer. Montreal Film Studio is best known for its "Fantastic Movie Trailers" DVD series.

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