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Bernard Devlin (director)
Bernard Devlin (1923–1983) was a Canadian film director, producer and writer who played an important role in the development of French-language film production at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Biography Devlin was born and raised in Quebec City. After attending Loyola College, he joined the Royal Canadian Navy and saw action in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and North Africa. After the war, he moved to Ottawa and joined the NFB. He was one of the few French-Canadians there; he joined Vincent Paquette and Jean Palardy and, after the war, the NFB hired Roger Blais and Raymond Garceau, among others. This group made French films, but it also continued to make English films, and dub them for Quebec. In 1951, the NFB created a studio for the creation of French-language films. Devlin wasn't given a title, but he was put in charge of the unit and spent the next two years producing films about French-Canadian culture. While he was reportedly an anti-nationalist, he did ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec City
Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec, metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. It is the eleventhList of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, -largest city and the seventhList of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, -largest metropolitan area in Canada. It is also the List of towns in Quebec, second-largest city in the province after Montreal. It has a humid continental climate with warm summers coupled with cold and snowy winters. The Algonquian people had originally named the area , an Algonquin language, AlgonquinThe Algonquin language is a distinct language of the Algonquian languages, Algonquian language family, and is not a misspelling. word meaning "where the river narrows", because the Saint Lawrence River na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secondment
Secondment is the assignment of a member of one organisation to another organisation for a temporary period. Job rotation The employee typically retains their salary and other employment rights from their primary organization but they work closely within the other organization to provide training, a liaison between the two companies and the sharing of experience. Secondment is a more formal type of job rotation. This is not to be confused with temporary work. Secondment, sometimes referred to as employer of record (EoR) or professional employer organization (PEO), can also be used to help organizations hire during a headcount freeze. In the current day, some businesses use it as a solution to enter into new markets, bypassing the cost of opening their own business entity. Use For example, statisticians from the Government Statistical Service may be assigned to the Full Fact charity, to check statistics presented in political campaigns and the mass media. In the military, an e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Patry
Pierre Patry (November 2, 1933 – June 7, 2014) was a Canadian film director and screenwriter. Biography Born in Hull, Quebec, Patry began his career in the theatre as an actor and a playwright. He was a founding member of the Canadian Association of Amateur Theatre. He joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1957 as a writer on the ''Panoramique'' series. Patry was a major force in the beginning of the Quebec feature-film industry in the sixties. He directed three features, most notably '' Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête)'' in 1964. He left the NFB in 1963 to co-found the film cooperative Coopératio with Roger Blais and Jean-Claude Lord. Unfortunately, the company shut down after five years because of systemic problems in the financing and distribution of feature films. In 1981 he was a major player in the development of the French language educational television station Canal Savoir. Patri died on June 7, 2014. Filmography As director Fiction *''Louis-Hippolyte Laf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clément Perron
Clément Perron (July 3, 1929 – October 12, 1999) was a Canadian film director and screenwriter. Early life and education Perron was born in Quebec City, Quebec. After graduating from the University of Laval with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy Perron went to France to continue his studies with the goal of becoming a teacher. He studied linguistics at the Academie de Portier. Career After watching screenings at the Cinémathèque française in Paris, Perron became interested in cinema and on his return to Canada in 1957, he joined the NFB as a writer. In 1960, he began directing documentary shorts and in 1962, found critical success with his film '' Day After Day (Jour après jour)'', which won two Canadian Film Awards. Perron continued to work primarily on documentaries until the NFB decided to make an attempt at a more commercial cinema in the late sixties and early seventies. He directed three fiction feature-length films of moderate success during this time period but hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Promised Land (miniseries)
''The Promised Land'' (french: Les Brûlés) is a Canadian historical drama television miniseries by the National Film Board of Canada. It was first broadcast in 1957 on Radio-Canada, then dubbed into English and adapted for broadcast by CBC Television as a four-part series in 1962. The NFB now classifies it as a feature film. Premise The series was adapted from the Hervé Biron novel ''Nuages sur les brûlés'' concerning the 1930s settlement of Quebec's Abitibi district and the workers who toiled to develop the area during the Great Depression. Episodes included music and appearances by folk musician Félix Leclerc Félix Leclerc, (August 2, 1914 – August 8, 1988) was a French-Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and '' Québécois'' political activist. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 20, 1968. Leclerc was posth .... It was broadcast on Radio-Canada as an eight-part series for the network's ''Panoramique'' anthology. The $144, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Jutra
Claude Jutra (; March 11, 1930 – November 5, 1986) was a Canadian actor, film director, and screenwriter."Claude Jutra" at . The , and the 's , were named in h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Leboursier
Raymond Leboursier (22 May 1917 – 26 July 1987) was a French film editor, film director, actor, and screenwriter. Filmography Actor * 1930: ''Le Réquisitoire'' (first title of the film: ''Homicide'') by Dimitri Buchowetzki * 1931: ''The Devil's Holiday'' by Alberto Cavalcanti: Monk McConnell * 1931: ''À mi-chemin du ciel'' by Alberto Cavalcanti * 1932: ' by Fred Ellis and Max Neufeld * 1934: ' by Serge de Poligny * 1934: '' Château de rêve'' by Géza von Bolváry and Henri-Georges Clouzot Director * 1942: ' * 1945: '' Naïs'', directed with Marcel Pagnol * 1949: ' * 1949: ' * 1951: '' La vie est un jeu'' * 1952: ' * 1959: ''Henri Gagnon organiste'' * 1960: ''Le Prix de la science'' (short film) * 1961: ''Dubois et fils'' (documentary), codirected with Bernard Devlin * 1969: ' Assistant director * 1948: ''Les Parents terribles'' by Jean Cocteau Film editor * 1936: ' de Jean Dréville * 1937: ' de Jean Dréville * 1937: ' de Willy Rozier * 1938: ''His Uncle fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léonard Forest
Léonard Forest (born 1928) is an Acadian filmmaker, poet and essayist. He was born in Massachusetts, United States, and grew up in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. He has worked at the National Film Board from 1953 to 1980 and was involved in about 130 films, either as director, producer, script-writer. Filmography As director * '' La femme de ménage'' (1954) * '' Les aboiteaux'' (1955) co-directed with Roger Blais * '' Pêcheurs de Pomcoup'' (1956) * '' Le monde des femmes'' (1956) * '' Amitiés haïtiennes'' (1957) * '' The whole world over'' (1957) * '' Bonjou' soleil'' (1957) * '' À la recherche de l'innocence'' (1964) * ''Mémoire en fête'' (1964) * '' Les Acadiens de la dispersion'' (1968) * '' Acadie libre'' (1969) * ''Out of silence'' (1970) * '' La noce est pas finie'' (1971) * '' Un soleil pas comme ailleurs'' (1972) * '' Saint-Jean-sur-ailleurs'' (1980) * ''Portrait: Gerald Squires of Newfoundland'' (1980) As script writer * ''Les aboiteaux'' (1955) * ''Les ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Anderson (filmmaker)
Robert Anderson (1913 – June 3, 1997) was a Canadian filmmaker who specialized in films about psychiatry, first with the National Film Board of Canada, and then through his own company. He was the first filmmaker to create truthful, objective films about mental health and addiction, and to make films of this type using actual patients, doctors and hospitals, rather than actors in reconstructions. His most famous film is ''Drug Addict'', which caused a furor when it was banned in the United States. Anderson was co-founder of the Canadian National Science Film Library, and he played a large role in bringing television to the Canadian House of Commons. Biography Anderson was born in Bismarck, North Dakota. His family moved to Winnipeg when he was 14, and then to Saskatoon. While in law school at the University of Saskatchewan, he and a friend proposed to the local radio station, CFQC, that they do a weekly variety show called ''University Hour''; the show ran for a year. After gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Biggs
Julian Biggs (1920 in Port Perry, Ontario – 1972 in Montreal) was a director, producer and administrator with the National Film Board of Canada for 20 years responsible for two Academy Award nominees, ''Herring Hunt'' (1953, as director) and '' Paddle to the Sea'' (1966, as producer). Career A graduate of University of Toronto who served in the Canadian army and navy during World War II, Julian Biggs joined the National Film Board as production assistant and writer in 1951. He became the director of English production at the Board in 1966, then returned to active directing in 1968. He was responsible for several of the early NFB dramas, the ''Perspective'' series, '' 23 Skidoo'' and ''The Little Fellow from Gambo''. He directed the Academy Award-nominated ''Herring Hunt'' and oversaw the production of nearly 200 films, including Don Owen's ''High Steel'' and ''Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail'', and Bill Mason's '' Paddle to the Sea'', the popular Oscar-nominated live-action ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bird Fancier
''The Bird Fancier'' (french: L'Homme aux oiseaux) is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Bernard Devlin and Jean Palardy and released in 1952. Written by Roger Lemelin, the film tells the story of a man whose passion for birds is bordering on obsession, distracting him from both his family life and his career.Gary Evans, ''In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989''. University of Toronto Press, 1991. . p. 22. The film's cast includes Camille Fournier, Annette Leclerc, René Constantineau and Roger Lebel. The first French-language film made by the National Film Board of Canada as an original production rather than a straight translation of an English-language film, the film faced some internal controversy on the grounds that as a film intended for Canada's francophone minority, its production was too expensive to justify given the relatively small size of its potential audience. To resolve the controversy, the filmmakers i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Giraldeau
Jacques Giraldeau (July 16, 1927February 28, 2015) was a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Quebec, who was known primarily for his films about visual arts and artists. A longtime director, writer and producer for the National Film Board of Canada, he is most noted as the winner in 1996 of the Prix Albert-Tessier, the lifetime achievement award in cinema from the Prix du Québec. Many of his films were released in a VHS compilation in 1995, and as a DVD compilation in 2009.Odile Tremblay"Treize films du cinéaste québécois passionné d'art disponibles sur DVD" ''Le Devoir ''Le Devoir'' (, "Duty") is a French-language newspaper published in Montreal and distributed in Quebec and throughout Canada. It was founded by journalist and politician Henri Bourassa in 1910. ''Le Devoir'' is one of few independent large-c ...'', January 5, 2009. Filmography * 1963: ''Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 3: The City and Its Region'' * 1963: ''Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 4: The Heart of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
