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A Woman, My Mother
''A Woman, My Mother'' () is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Claude Demers and released in 2019.André Lavoie"«Une femme, ma mère»: rien, ou si peu, sur ma mère" ''Le Devoir'', January 31, 2020. The film documents Demers's efforts to learn more about his birth mother, who gave him up for adoption; although they did meet in adulthood, she subsequently died before being able to tell him very much about her own life, leaving him with many gaps in his understanding that he could fill in only with imaginative speculation. The film premiered in November 2019 at the Montreal International Documentary Festival, where it won the award for Best Canadian Feature. It went into theatrical release in Quebec in early 2020, and was screened as part of the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. The film received two Prix Iris nominations at the 22-A Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020, for Best Editing in a Documentary (Natalie Lamoureux) and Best Sound in a Documentar ...
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Claude Demers
Claude Demers (born March 10, 1962) is a Canadian filmmaker from Montreal, Quebec. He is most noted for his series of documentary films that were indirectly inspired by, or directly about, his experiences as an adoptee. The birth son of an Italian Canadian father and a québécois mother, he was placed for adoption in infancy. He directed a number of short films before releasing his feature debut, ''The Invention of Love (L'Invention de l'amour)'', in 2000. He began his foray into documentary films inspired by his birth heritage in 2006 with ''Barbers: A Men's Story (Barbiers, Une histoire d'hommes)'', a film about the culture of Italian Canadian barbers in Montreal; he followed up in 2009 with '' Ladies in Blue (Les dames en bleu)'', a film about women of his birth mother's generation who idolized pop chansonnier Michel Louvain. '' Where I'm From (D'ou je viens)'', released in 2014, began a series of much more personal films that more directly confronted his own experiences as ...
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Luc Boudrias
Luc Boudrias (born March 9, 1960) is a Canadian sound re-recording mixer, most noted as a Genie Award, Canadian Screen Award and Prix Iris Prix was an American power pop band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1975 by Tommy Hoehn and Jon Tiven. The group ended up primarily as a studio project. Its recordings were produced by Tiven along with former Big Star member Chris Bell, who ... winner for his work in film. Awards References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Boudrias, Luc 1960 births Living people Best Sound Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners Engineers from Montreal ...
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French-language Canadian Films
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2010s French-language Films
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2019 Documentary Films
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Documentary Films About Adoption
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". The American author and media analyst Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception hat remainsa practice without clear boundaries". Research into information gathering, as a behavior, and the sharing of knowledge, as a concept, has noted how documentary movies were preceded by the notable practice of documentary photography. This has involved the use of singular photographs to detail the complex attributes of historical events and continues to a certain degree to this day, with an example being the conflict-related photography achieved by popular figures such as Mathew Brady during the American Civil War. Documentary movies evolved from the creation of singular images in order to convey par ...
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Quebec Films
The history of cinema in Quebec started on June 27, 1896 when the Frenchman Louis Minier inaugurated the first movie projection in North America in a Montreal theatre room. However, it would have to wait until the 1960s before a genuine Quebec cinema industry would emerge. Approximately 620 feature-length films have been produced, or partially produced by the Quebec film industry since 1943. Due to language and cultural differences between the predominantly francophone population of Quebec and the predominantly anglophone population of the rest of Canada, Quebec's film industry is commonly regarded as a distinct entity from its English Canadian counterpart. In addition to participating in Canada's national Genie Awards, the Quebec film industry also maintains its own awards ceremony, the Prix Iris (formerly known as Jutra). In addition, the popularity of homegrown French language films among Quebec audiences, as opposed to English Canadians' preference for Hollywood films, mea ...
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Canadian Documentary Films
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, a ...
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2019 Films
2019 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, critics' lists of the best films of 2019, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and movie programming. '' Avengers: Endgame'' was the year's highest grossing film and became the highest-grossing film of all-time until '' Avatar'' regained the top spot in 2021. United Artists celebrated its 100th anniversary. Evaluation of the year In his article highlighting the best movies of 2019, Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' said, "It's the year of apocalyptic cinema of the highest order, the year in which three of our best filmmakers have responded with vast ambition, invention, and inspiration to the crises at hand, including the threats to American democracy, the catastrophic menaces arising from global warming, the corrosive cruelty of ethnic hatreds and nationalist prejudices, and the poisonous overconcentration of money and power. At the same time, it's a yea ...
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Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ...
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ET Canada
''Entertainment Tonight Canada'' (commonly shortened to ''ET Canada'') is a Canadian entertainment news television series that aired on the Global Television Network from 2005 to 2023. Its branding and format were based on the American entertainment newsmagazine ''Entertainment Tonight'', and ''ET Canada'' was usually aired back-to-back with the American version on most Global stations. ''ET Canada'' was hosted by longtime Global Toronto entertainment host Cheryl Hickey and Sangita Patel, while presented alongside reporters Carlos Bustamante and Keshia Chanté. The program's original founding producer was Zev Shalev. ''ETC Live'' was an online show in connection with ''ET Canada'', that aired weekdays via Facebook and YouTube, shot live with expanded coverage of entertainment news. It was an interactive show, allowing viewers to submit commentary as Weston, Chanté and Graeme O'Neil debate topics. Global launched a weekend edition of ''ET Canada'' hosted by Sangita Patel ...
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Canadian Screen Award For Best Editing In A Documentary
The Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing in a Documentary is an annual award, presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards program to honour the year's best editing in a documentary film. It is presented separately from the Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing for narrative feature films. An award for Best Editing in a Non-Feature, with its nominees consisting entirely of short or television documentary films, was presented at the 1st Genie Awards in 1980, and an award for Best Editing in a Documentary was presented at the shortlived Bijou Awards in 1981,"War Brides top Bijou winner". ''Regina Leader-Post'', October 30, 1981. although the Academy never presented an award for editing in theatrical feature documentaries until the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015. The non-feature winners from 1980 and 1981 have, however, been included below. 1980s 2010s 2020s See also *Prix Iris for Best Editing in a Documentary The Prix Iris for Best Editing in a Documentary () is an a ...
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