The Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (formerly known as Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois) is a festival created in 1982 to celebrate the cinematographic production of

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. The goal of the festival is to promote the

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and its makers in order to support its culture and stimulate its industry. It occurs in February, formerly coinciding with the ceremony awarding the

Prix Iris The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec.Cinémathèque québécoise The Cinémathèque québécoise is a film conservatory in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its purpose is to preserve, document, film and television footage and related documents and artifacts for future use by the public. The Cinémathèque's collectio ...

, the NFB Cinema and Cinéma Beaubien. In Quebec City, the

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accommodates the festival. In 2018, the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois (RVCQ) changed its name for the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (RVQC), in order to confirm its affiliation with the

Québec Cinéma Québec Cinéma is a Canadian organization based in Quebec, whose mission is to promote and develop the Cinema of Quebec. The organization's programs include the Prix Iris, the annual film awards for Quebec films; the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, ...

organization, while keeping the same purpose.

Prizes

The festival awards various prizes : * Prix Pierre et Yolande Perrault - best documentary * Prix à la création artistique of the

Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) is a public agency founded in 1994 by the government of Quebec. CALQ offers support and funding for art projects in the performing arts, multidisciplinary arts, circus arts, visual arts, med ...

* Prix OFQJ/Rendez-vous - best student creation, bursary of $5000 * Prix Coop vidéo - best fiction short film * Prix TV5 - bursary of $1500 to best Franco-Canadian film from TV5 television network * Prix du public Télé-Québec - bursary of $1500 from

Télé-Québec The Société de télédiffusion du Québec (; en, Quebec Television Broadcasting Corporation), branded as Télé-Québec (), is a Canadian French-language public educational television network in the province of Quebec. It is a provincial Crown ...

for best film chosen by the public * Prix Vox - bursary of $1000 to best student film from Vox television network * Annual prizes of the

Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma The Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma (AQCC) is a Canadian organization of film critics from Quebec. Formed in 1973, the organization currently presents two annual awards, the Prix Luc-Perreault for best Quebec film of the year and ...

(AQCC) - various categories of fiction and documentary including the

Prix Luc-Perreault The Prix Luc-Perreault, formerly known as the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson, is an annual Canadian film award, presented by the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma to a film deemed to be the best film of the year from Quebec, from among th ...

* Annual Prize of the Fondation Alex et Ruth Dworkin - to promote tolerance, bursary of $5000 (last awarded in 2008Malcolm Guy,
Le prix qui n’était pas aux Rendez-vous (lettre ouverte)
, Productions Multi-Monde)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rendez-Vous Du Cinema Quebecois Film festivals in Montreal Festivals in Quebec City

Prizes

See also

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