Roch Carrier is a French Canadian novelist and author of "contes". He is among the best known Quebec writers in English Canada.
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.
Eva Ionesco is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. She is the daughter of Romanian-French photographer Irina Ionesco and came to international prominence as a child model after being featured in her mother's works.
Michèle Cournoyer is a Canadian animator who on 1 March 2017 received a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for her body of work.
Marie-Aurore-Lucienne Gagnon, simply known as Aurore Gagnon, was a Canadian girl who was a victim of child abuse. She died of exhaustion and blood poisoning from some 52 wounds inflicted by her stepmother, Marie-Anne Houde, and her father, Télesphore Gagnon. The story of l'enfant martyre received great attention in the media and Aurore became an icon of Quebec sociological and popular culture.
Stéphanie Lapointe is a Quebec singer, song writer, television and movie actress and humanitarian activist. She is best known as the winner of the second season of Star Académie.
Aurore is a 2005 Quebec biographical drama film that was directed by Luc Dionne and produced by Denise Robert and Daniel Louis. It is based on the true story of Aurore Gagnon, one of Quebec's best-known victims of child abuse. The movie is also a remake of Jean-Yves Bigras's 1952 movie La petite Aurore: l'enfant martyre .
Catherine Trudeau is a Canadian actress. She was born in L'Assomption, Quebec, Canada.
Marc Labrèche is a Canadian actor, comedian and host.
Renée Faure was a French stage and film actress.
Yves Jacques OC is a Canadian film, television and stage actor.
Jean-Yves Bigras was a Canadian film director and film editor, considered a pioneer in Quebec cinema. Bigras studied first at the University of Ottawa and then at Queen's University. From 1939 to 1942, he served in World War II as part of the RCAF. When he returned to Canada, he became one of the first French Canadians to be hired by the NFB and worked there as an editor until 1948. He was then hired to work in Renaissance Éducationnel, the children's education film section of Renaissance Films Distribution. It was here that he got to work on his first feature film, Le gros Bill (1949), co-directing with René Delacroix. Bigras moved on to direct three feature films himself, including La petite Aurore l’enfant martyre (1951), a big hit with audiences and a staple of Quebec Cinema. In 1953, he began working for Radio-Canada where he became one of its principal directors until his death in 1966.
Macha Grenon is a Canadian film and television actress.
Monique Spaziani is a Canadian actress. She is a three-time Genie Award nominee for Best Actress, receiving nominations at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982 for Happy Memories , at the 7th Genie Awards in 1986 for The Alley Cat and at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989 for The Revolving Doors .
Andréanne Lafond was a French-born Canadian journalist living and working in Quebec, best known as a host for Radio-Canada television.
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches is a 2017 Canadian drama film directed by Simon Lavoie and starring Marine Johnson, Antoine L'Écuyer and Jean-François Casabonne. An adaptation of Gaétan Soucy's novel of the same name, the film centres on Alice Soissons, a girl raised to believe she is a boy, who lives in with her father and brother in oppressive and secluded conditions. When her father dies, she ventures into the village, where outsiders tell her she is female, and she fears the family home is now under threat.
The 4th Canadian Film Awards were presented on April 27, 1952 to honour achievements in Canadian film. The ceremony was hosted by Sidney Earle Smith, the president of the University of Toronto.
The Child Prodigy is a Canadian drama film, directed by Luc Dionne and released in 2010. A biographical drama about classical pianist André Mathieu, the film stars Guillaume Lebon as Mathieu in childhood and Patrick Drolet as Mathieu in adulthood.
Fatima Bedar was an Algerian independence activist, born August 5, 1946 in Tichy and died during the massacre of October 17, 1961 in Paris. Killed at the age of 15, she is considered a Mujahideen martyr.
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