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Alexandre Franchi – Happy Face, The Wild Hunt Director - Alexandre Franchi is a Canadian film director from Quebec. He is most noted for his 2009 film The Wild Hunt, which won the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and was named to the annual Canada's Top Ten list of the year's best Canadian films in 2009. He previously directed the short films Chimère, Fata Morgana, Terminal Venus, Love Junket, and Troll Concerto. His second feature film, Happy Face, was released in 2018. You gotta watch Happy Face at On this BIDS ep, Pete and Alexandre talk about his movie Happy Face, the casting of ER Ruiz (who was planned as guest but had technical problems), Alex’s personal connection with the film, respectfully working with people with disfigurements, his stance on production vs perfection, his other project based on a hospital anecdote from his life and more. For the  of this episode head to Please support the Break It Down Show by doing a monthly subscription