FrameThrower · Actors · Pierre-Yves Cardinal
Pierre-Yves Cardinal
2 films · 121 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2009–2013
Born 24 July 1978 · Quebec, Canada
Pierre-Yves Cardinal is a Canadian film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Francis in Xavier Dolan's Tom at the Farm, for which he garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards and won a Jutra Award as Best Supporting Actor at the 17th Jutra Awards. He has also appeared in the films Polytechnique, Adrien (Le Garagiste) and Le Fils de Jean, and the television series Trauma, 19-2 and Les Jeunes loups.
How their films are shot
Measured across 121 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Pierre-Yves takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 55% of their frames are day — the look of the work Pierre-Yves takes.
Time of day
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 121 frames from Pierre-Yves Cardinal's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.