Christian Larouche

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Christian Larouche is a Canadian film and television producer from Quebec. [1] He is most noted as producer of the film Louis Cyr (Louis Cyr: L'homme le plus fort du monde), which was the winner of the Jutra Award for Best Film at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014. [2]

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He began his career in the 1970s as a driver for Cinépix, the production firm of John Dunning and André Link, [3] working his way into greater roles with the company until making his debut as a producer with The Ideal Man (L'Homme idéal) in 1996. [4]

In 2000 he launched his own company, Christal Films. [5] The company made an aggressive push into film distribution in 2007; [6] although its distribution arm put the company into bankruptcy by 2008, [5] the studio arm survived as a division of Entertainment One, with Larouche remaining president of the division. [7]

In addition to his Jutra Award win for Louis Cyr, he was producer of the Best Film nominees The Collector (Le collectionneur) at the 5th Jutra Awards in 2003 [8] and The 3 L'il Pigs (Les 3 p'tits cochons) at the 10th Jutra Awards in 2008, [9] and of Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume), a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Picture at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Frédéric Bouchard, "FCIAT : Christian Larouche, très occupé par ses nouveaux projets". Lien Multimédia, October 31, 2017.
  2. ↑ Julianna Cummins (March 24, 2014). "'Strong' showing from Louis Cyr at 2014 Jutra Awards". Playback .
  3. ↑ Matthew Hays, "The professionally ambidextrous Christian Larouche". Playback , November 26. 2007.
  4. ↑ "Homme idéal, L’ – Film de George Mihalka". Films du Québec, January 11, 2009.
  5. 1 2 Etan Vlessing, "Christal in bankruptcy protection". Playback , May 16, 2008.
  6. ↑ Brendan Kelly, "Christal bursts out of Quebec". Variety , May 18, 2007.
  7. ↑ Marise Strauss, "Larouche launches another Christal". Playback , May 8, 2009.
  8. ↑ Brendan Kelly, "‘Seraphin’ tops list at Jutra noms". Variety , January 28, 2003.
  9. ↑ "Huard's p'tits cochons film dominates nominations for Quebec's Jutras". CBC News . February 7, 2008.
  10. ↑ Barry Hertz, "2019 Canadian Screen Awards lean toward Quebec and the obscure, and thank goodness for that". The Globe and Mail , February 7, 2019.
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