Claude Jutra was a Canadian actor, film director, and screenwriter.
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.
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. Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra, but Jutra's name was withdrawn from the awards following the publication of Yves Lever's biography of Jutra, which alleged that he had sexually abused children.
The Plouffe Family is a 1981 Canadian drama film, based on Roger Lemelin's novel about the titular Plouffe family, set during World War II. The film was Canada's submission to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981, but was not shortlisted as a nominee for the award.
Rock Demers, was a Canadian film producer. He was the founder of the film company Les Productions la Fête and produced the Tales for All film series for children.
Men for Sale is a 2008 documentary film by Canadian director Rodrigue Jean, about male prostitutes working in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The film was shot over a one-year period in Montreal's Gay Village.
Séquences is a French-language film magazine originally published in Montreal, Quebec by the Commission des ciné-clubs du Centre catholique du cinéma de Montréal, a Roman Catholic film society. It is the third oldest French film magazine in publication after Les Cahiers du cinéma and Positif.
Jean-Carl Boucher is a Canadian actor and filmmaker from Quebec, best known for his recurring performances as a fictionalized version of filmmaker Ricardo Trogi in Trogi's semi-autobiographical series of comedy-drama films. To date he has played Trogi in the films 1981, 1987 and 1991, with 1995 forthcoming in 2024.
Hélène Florent is a Canadian film and television actress. Her roles have included the television series Les Invincibles, Toute la vérité, La galère, and the 2000s revival of Lance et compte, as well as the films Yellowknife, Familia, Life with My Father and Café de Flore. She garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 32nd Genie Awards for her performance in Café de Flore. That film also got her nominated for a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2012.
Michel Langlois is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. He is a two-time nominee for the Genie Award for Best Screenplay, garnering nominations at the 6th Genie Awards in 1985 for A Woman in Transit and at the 12th Genie Awards in 1991 for The Savage Woman .
Nicolas Bolduc is a Canadian cinematographer from Montreal, Quebec. He won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography two years in a row, in the 1st Canadian Screen Awards and 2nd Canadian Screen Awards, for War Witch (2012) and Enemy (2013). He also won the Jutra Award for War Witch, and was nominated the next year for Louis Cyr. Bolduc was nominated for Best Cinematography at the Prix Iris in 2017 for Two Lovers and a Bear.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Actor to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Supporting Actor to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Québec Cinéma is a Canadian organization based in Quebec, whose mission is to promote and develop the Cinema of Quebec.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Director to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Diego Star is a Canadian drama film, directed by Frédérick Pelletier and released in 2013. Set in Lévis, Quebec where a Russian cargo ship has been docked following a serious on-board accident, the film traces the journey of Traoré, the ship's Ivorian mechanic, through both his decision to blow the whistle on the crew's neglect of ship maintenance issues and his developing friendship with Fanny, the local woman with whom he has been billeted during the ship's time in Lévis.
The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl is a Canadian satirical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Gilles Carle and released in 1968. The film stars Julie Lachapelle as Julie, a young sexually liberated woman who gets pregnant from a casual but consensual sexual encounter and wrestles with whether to have the baby or go for an abortion, while her older brothers Raphaël, Gabriel and Joachim decide, without listening to Julie's own perspective, that she has been raped and set off to find the "assailant", and themselves end up committing rape against another young woman.
Cargo is a Canadian drama film, directed by François Girard and released in 1990. Girard's feature film debut, the film centres on a sailing trip undertaken by Alice, her father Philippe and her lover Marcel. After they are caught in a violent storm which kills Philippe but from which Alice and Marcel are rescued, Philippe is left alone wandering a ghost ship and struggling to make sense of his fate.
Ivan Grbovic is a Canadian cinematographer, film director and screenwriter, most noted for his film Drunken Birds . The film was the top winner at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022, including winning Best Film and garnering awards for Grbovic for Best Director and Best Screenplay, and was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards.
Daniel Jobin is a Canadian cinematographer from Quebec. He is a two-time Genie Award nominee for Best Cinematography, receiving nods at the 12th Genie Awards in 1991 for Cargo and at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996 for Lilies, and a four-time Jutra/Iris Award nominee for Best Cinematography, receiving nominations at the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009 for Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's , at the 12th Jutra Awards in 2010 for Je me souviens, at the 14th Jutra Awards in 2012 for Coteau rouge, and at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2016 for The Passion of Augustine .
