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Jason Lapeyre

Jason Lapeyre

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Biography

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+.

Known For

Restless Virgins
5.6

A highly fictionalized dramatization of the sex scandal that shook Massachusetts prep school Milton Academy in the 2004-05 school year.

Restless Virgins

2013
The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story
5.3

The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story delves into the experiences of six unknown young actors placed into the Hollywood spotlight, exposing the challenges of growing up under public scrutiny.

The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story

2014
Cold Blooded
5.1

A female police officer has to keep a prisoner from escaping a nearly abandoned hospital unit at the same time his violent partners come looking for him.

Cold Blooded

2012
Who Killed JonBenét?
6.3

The disturbing true story of JonBenet Ramsey, the six-year-old beauty queen whose murder in her Colorado home remains unsolved.

Who Killed JonBenét?

2016
I Declare War
6.1

Summer war games between the neighborhood kids turns deadly serious when jealousy and betrayal enter the mix, in this alternately hilarious and horrifying black comedy that mixes equal parts Lord of the Flies and Roald Dahl.

I Declare War

2012
The Captured Bird
5.4

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.

The Captured Bird

2012
The Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot
5.2

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.

The Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot

2024
Cold Deck
5.4

When a poker player hits rock bottom he enlists his best friend to pull off a high-stakes heist.

Cold Deck

2015
A Small Fortune
4.9

Kevin is an Irish Moss farmer committed to his traditional way of doing things at the expense of a more lucrative life for himself and his pregnant wife. When he finds a bag of money washed up on the shores of Prince Edward Island, his decision to keep it secret turns his quaint fishing village into a growing crime scene as the money’s owners come calling. Adapted from Adam Perry's award-winning short film A Blessing from the Sea.

A Small Fortune

2021
Monkey on a Stick
7.7

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.

Monkey on a Stick

2024
The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer
4.2

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.

The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer

2014
The Lockpicker
5.8

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

The Lockpicker

2018
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Memento Mori is a morbidly beautiful journey into the world of alternative post mortem arrangements and an illuminating meditation on death, dying and our relationship with our bodies once they are no longer ours.

How We Die

Self Portrait
5.0

In the process of taking off her make-up, a young woman reveals her true face.

Self Portrait

2012
Faceless
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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.

Faceless

2012
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10.0

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.

Portrait as a Random Act of Violence

2013
Murder & Madness: A Cult Conspiracy
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Murder & Madness: A Cult Conspiracy is a feature-length documentary exposé of the criminal activity that took place in and around the Hare Krishna movement in America in the 1970s and '80s, adapted from the New York Times bestselling book.

Murder & Madness: A Cult Conspiracy