Claude Fournier is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, editor and cinematographer

Cinematographer

A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...

. He is one of the forerunners of the Cinema of Quebec. He is the twin brother of Guy Fournier

Guy Fournier

Guy Fournier, CM is a Quebec author, playwright, and screenwriter. He is the twin brother of Claude Fournier and the uncle of Jean-Vincent Fournier....

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Claude Fournier worked for Radio-Canada and the National Film Board of Canada

National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's twelve-time Academy Award-winning public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions...

 before he founded his own film producing company, Rose Films. His 1988 TV series Les Tisserands du pouvoir (The Mills of Power) won him a Gémeaux Award

Gémeaux Award

The Prix Gémeaux or Gémeaux Awards honour French Canadian achievements in Canadian television. It has been sponsored by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television since 1985. In 2005 the Prix Gémeaux celebrated its 20th anniversary. Its English-language counterpart is the Gemini Awards.-External...

 for best direction of a television drama and a Genie Award for Best Screenplay

Genie Award for Best Screenplay

The Genie Award for Best Screenplay is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian screenplay.The award's presentation has not always been consistent — in some years, a single award for Best Screenplay has been presented, while in other years separate awards have...

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Deux femmes en or (Two Women in Gold) was a quite popular and high grossing sex comedy.

Features

• Deux femmes en or (1970)
• Les chats bottés (1971)
• Alien Thunder
  Alien Thunder
  Alien Thunder is a 1974 Canadian western film directed by Claude Fournier and starring Donald Sutherland.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1974)
• La pomme, la queue...et les pepins (1974)
• Je suis loin de toi mignonne (1976)
• Hot Dogs (aka Cops and Other Lovers, 1980)
• Bonheur d'occasion
  The Tin Flute
  The Tin Flute , Gabrielle Roy’s first novel, is a classic of Canadian fiction...
  
  (aka The Tin Flute, 1983)
• Page trois: un ordinateur au coeur (1985)
• J'en suis! (1997)
• The Book of Eve (2003)
• Je n'aime que toi (2004)

Documentaries

• Télésphore Légaré, garde-pêche (Short film, 1959)
• Alfred Desrochers, poète (Short film, 1960)
• La France sur un caillou (Short film Co-Directed with Gilles Groulx
  Gilles Groulx
  Gilles Groulx was a Canadian film director. He grew up in a working-class family with 14 children. After studying business in school, he went to work in an office but found the white-collar environment too stultifying...
  
  , 1961)
• La lutte (Short film Co-Directed with Michel Brault
  Michel Brault
  Michel Brault, OQ 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...
  
  , Marcel Carrière
  Marcel Carrière
  Marcel Carrière is a Canadian film director and sound engineer.-Biography:Marcel Carrière joined the NFB in 1955 after studying electronic engineering and developed his skills as a sound engineer while working on wildlife films, the Candid Eye series and the work of the newly formed French Unit...
  
   and Claude Jutra
  Claude Jutra
  Claude Jutra was a Canadian actor, film director and writer. The Prix Jutra are named in his honor because of his importance in Quebec cinema history. He was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec....
  
  , 1961)
• Midwestern Floods (Short film, 1962)
• Nehru (Short film, 1962)
• Vingt ans express (Series of 7 shorts, 1963–1964)
• Nomades de l'ouest (Short film, 1963)
• Calgary Stampede (Short film, 1965)
• Deux femmes (Short film, 1965)
• Columbium (Short film, 1966)
• Londres (Short film, 1966)
• On sait où entrer Tony, mais c'est les notes (Short film, 1966)
• Québec an 2000 (Short film Co-Directed with Aimée Danis, 1966)
• Sebring, La cinquième heure (Short film, 1966)
• Ti-Jean (Short film, 1966)
• Tony Roman (Short film, 1966)
• Du général au particulier (Short film, 1967)
• Canada Today (Short film of Expo 67, 1967)
• La greffe cardiaque (Short film, 1969)
• La greffe cardiaque, symposium de Montréal (Short film, 1969)
• Coeurs neufs (Short film aka Hearts, 1969)
• Le dossier Nelligan (1969)
• ...Et Dieu créa l'été (Short film Co-Directed with Marie-José Raymond, 1974)
• Aliments, gentils aliments (Short film Co-Directed with Marie-José Raymond, 1975)

Television

• The Newcomers
  The Newcomers (TV miniseries)
  The Newcomers was a series of seven hour-long Canadian television specials that aired from 1977 to 1980 on CBC Television. The series was sponsored by Imperial Oil to mark the company's 100th anniversary in 1980....
  
  (TV miniseries aka Les arrivants, 1977)
• The New Avengers (TV series, 1977)
• Tales of the Klondike (TV miniseries aka The Scorn of Women, 1981)
• Les tisserands du pouvoir (TV miniseries, 1987) (Later released theatrically in 2 parts)
• Golden Fiddles (TV miniseries, 1990)
• Juliette Pomerleau (TV miniseries, 1999)
• Félix Leclerc: Les esprits du fleuve (TV miniseries, 2005)

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