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]
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]