Michel Brault
Michel Brault, OQ (born 25 June 1928, Montreal) is a Quebec cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s. Brault was a pioneer of the hand-held camera aesthetic. In the 1960s, Brault collaborated with the French Nouvelle Vague, notably with Jean Rouch, and introduced the cinéma vérité techniques in Europe. He directed his first documentary short film for the National Film Board, the influential Les Raquetteurs in 1958. He was also the cinematographer for a number of key Canadian films of the 1970s such as Claude Jutra's Kamouraska and Mon Oncle Antoine and Francis Mankiewicz's Les Bons débarras. In 1974, Brault directed Les Ordres, about the 1970 October crisis and won the 1975 Cannes Film Festival award for best director and the 1975 Canadian Film Award for best direction. His 1989 film The Paper Wedding was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. Over the course of his career, Brault worked as a director or cinematographer on over 200 films.
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Capturing Reality
From cinema-vérité pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick moviemakers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world’s best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Featuring interviews with 38 directors and 163 film clips...Watch Movie
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Visit to a Foreign Country
They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is Québec City, where they can soak up a bit of French culture without a trip to France. With an eye for humour, VISIT TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY...Watch Movie -
Acadia Acadia?!?
This feature-length documentary is an on-the-spot record of the student protests that shook the Université de Moncton in 1968-69. Led by students desiring greater recognition of the French faction in New Brunswick, the protests spawned street marches, petitions and a sit-in,...Watch Movie -
Beluga Days
From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped at the island he named L'Isle-aux-Coudres, Jacques Cartier saw how the Indians captured the little white beluga whales by setting a fence of...Watch Movie -
The End of Summer
Filmed at a summer cottage in the Laurentians north of Montreal, this film briefly permeates the charmed world of the adolescent. Watching and listening, you sense the bittersweet mood of childhood's end and the poignant awareness that nothing will ever be the same after this...Watch Movie
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Acadia Acadia?!?
This feature-length documentary is an on-the-spot record of the student protests that shook the Université de Moncton in 1968-69. Led by students desiring greater recognition of the French faction in New Brunswick, the protests spawned street marches, petitions and a sit-in,...Watch Movie -
Beluga Days
From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped at the island he named L'Isle-aux-Coudres, Jacques Cartier saw how the Indians captured the little white beluga whales by setting a fence of...Watch Movie -
The End of Summer
Filmed at a summer cottage in the Laurentians north of Montreal, this film briefly permeates the charmed world of the adolescent. Watching and listening, you sense the bittersweet mood of childhood's end and the poignant awareness that nothing will ever be the same after this...Watch Movie

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