Micheline Lanctôt is a Canadian actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.
Denise Filiatrault, is a Canadian actress and director.
Denis Héroux, was a Canadian film director and producer.
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Motion Picture to the best Canadian film of the year.
Gabriel Arcand is a Canadian actor. He is the brother of film director Denys Arcand.
Pierre Curzi is an actor, screenwriter and politician in Quebec. He is a former Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the riding of Borduas in the Montérégie region south of Montreal. Elected under the Parti Québécois (PQ) banner, he later sat as an independent.
The Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian live action short film. Formerly part of the Genie Awards, since 2012 it has been presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.
Gilles Carle, was a French Canadian director, screenwriter and painter.
The True Nature of Bernadette is a 1972 Canadian drama film directed by Gilles Carle. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 45th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. In 1984 the Toronto International Film Festival ranked the film tenth in the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time. The film won Canadian Film Awards for Best Director, Actress, Supporting Actor and Musical Score.
Jacques Godin was a Canadian film, television and stage actor. He was born in Montreal, Quebec.
Roger Lebel was a Canadian actor.
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe, also known as Murder in the Family in its television run, is a Canadian film and television miniseries from Quebec. The project consisted of two parts: a two-hour theatrical film directed by Denys Arcand which was released to theatres in 1984, and a six-hour television miniseries which aired in 1986, with four hours directed by Gilles Carle leading into the Arcand film as the final two hours.
François Protat was a Canadian cinematographer, who won the Genie Award for Best Cinematography at the 7th Genie Awards in 1986 for Joshua Then and Now. Born in France, he emigrated to Canada in 1969 after studying at the École de photographie de la rue de Vaugirard.
Willie Lamothe was the stage name of Joachim Guillaume Lamothe, a Canadian musician and actor from Quebec. One of the pioneers of French language country music, he recorded over 500 songs, both originals and translated renditions of English language country music hits, over the course of his career.
François Papineau is a Canadian actor who worked in stage and the Cinema of Quebec for over 25 years.
France Castel, née Bégin in Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a Canadian singer, actress and broadcaster.
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 the films screening at that year's Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma.
The 24th Canadian Film Awards were held on October 3, 1972 to honour achievements in Canadian film.
The Mills of Power is a Canadian television miniseries, directed by Claude Fournier. A historical drama, the film centres on the historical phenomenon of French Canadians who emigrated to New England for work opportunities, tracing their gradual loss of socioeconomic status, political power and cultural identity through the story of a community of French Canadian Americans in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The story is centred mainly on three families: the working class Lamberts, who worked in the dying textile mills and clung strongly to their Québécois heritage; the more middle-class Fontaines, who integrated more successfully into mainstream American life; and the wealthy Roussels, an industrialist family from France who owned the mills and exploited the Québécois immigrants.
Marcel Sabourin, OC is a Canadian actor and writer from Quebec. He is most noted for his role as Abel Gagné, the central character in Jean Pierre Lefebvre's trilogy of Don't Let It Kill You , The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died and Now or Never , and his performance as Professor Mandibule in the children's television series Les Croquignoles and La ribouldingue.
