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• Frédéric Back
  Frédéric Back
  Frédéric Back, OC, CQ is a Canadian artist and film director of short animated films.-Biography:Born in Saarbrücken, The Territory of the Saar Basin, he emigrated to Canada in 1948...
  
  
• Paule Baillargeon
  Paule Baillargeon
  Paule Baillargeon is a Canadian actress and film director. She won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, and was a nominee for Best Director for Le Sèxe des étoiles.Her other film roles have included Un 32 août sur terre, Jésus de...
  
  
• Jean Beaudin
  Jean Beaudin
  Jean Beaudin is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 20 films since 1969. His film J.A. Martin Photographer, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, where Monique Mercure won the award for Best Actress. The film also won best Film, he won best Director, and Mercure...
  
  
• Louis Bélanger
  Louis Bélanger
  Louis Bélanger is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has a degree in Communications from UQAM. He is a close friend and collaborator of filmmaker Denis Chouinard; both men created several short films together before branching off into their own careers with feature films...
  
  
• Jacques W. Benoît
• Normand Bergeron
• Dan Bigras
  Dan Bigras
  Dan Bigras is a francophone rock singer and actor from Canada. He was discovered by Gerry Boulet in 1983, and his first album Ange Animal was released in 1990....
  
  
• Jean-Yves Bigras
  Jean-Yves Bigras
  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...
  
  
• Charles Binamé
  Charles Binamé
  Charles Binamé is a Quebec director. He was born in Belgium and came to Montreal with his family at a young age. In 1971, he began work as an assistant director with the National Film Board of Canada. During the 1980s, he directed commercials in England...
  
  
• Sophie Bissonnette
• Patrick Bouchard
• François Bouvier
• André Brassard
  André Brassard
  André Brassard is a Canadian stage director and actor, best known for creating the vast majority of Michel Tremblay's plays....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Manon Briand
• Maurice Bulbulian

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• Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol
• Roger Cantin
• Éric Canuel
  Eric Canuel
  Eric Canuel is a film director and actor from Quebec, Canada.Eric Canuel began his career in the mid-1980s making music videos for such artists as Paul Piché, Sass Jordan, Norman Iceberg, Vilain Pingouin and Sylvain Cossette...
  
  
• Gilles Carle
• 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...
  
  
• Jean Chabot
  Jean Chabot
  Jean Chabot was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Canada East.He was born in Saint-Charles near Lévis in 1806 and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. He articled in law with Elzéar Bédard and was called to the bar in 1834...
  
  
• Alain Chartrand
• Martine Chartrand
• Patricia Chica
  Patricia Chica
  Patricia Chica also known as Chicatronica is a Canadian film and television director. She is one of the most internationally renowned filmmakers of Salvadorian descent. In 2007 and 2010, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador gave her a diploma of recognition for her outstanding...
  
  
• Denis Chouinard
  Denis Chouinard
  Denis Chouinard is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has a degree in Filmmaking from Cégep de Saint-Laurent and a degree in Communications from UQAM. He is a close friend and collaborator of filmmaker Louis Bélanger; both men created several short films together before branching off...
  
  
• Richard Ciupka
• Denis Côté
• Ghyslaine Côté
• Michèle Cournoyer
  Michèle Cournoyer
  Michèle Cournoyer is a Canadian animator.Cournoyer studied graphic arts, photography and animation in Quebec, England and Italy...
  
  
• Paul Cowan

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• Fernand Dansereau
  Fernand Dansereau
  Fernand Dansereau is a Canadian film director and film producer.-Biography:After five years working as a reporter for the Montreal daily Le Devoir, Dansereau joined the NFB in 1955. He was a founding member of the NFB's French Unit and until 1960, he wrote and directed several feature films and...
  
  
• Mireille Dansereau
• Patrick Demers
  Patrick Demers
  Patrick Demers is a film director from Montreal, born in 1969 in Ste-Eustache, Canada. He likes to work with actors to build his scripts, to add some improv while shooting his stories, and considers editing as being part of the cinematic writing process....
  
  
• Rock Demers
  Rock Demers
  Rock Demers, is a Canadian film producer.He is the founder of the film company Les Productions la Fête and has produced the Tales for All film series for children....
  
  
• Yves Desgagnés
• Denys Desjardins
  Denys Desjardins
  Denys Desjardins , is a film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and teacher for more than fifteen years. After completing studies in literature, film and communications, he directed several acclaimed films.-Career:...
  
  
• Claude Desrosiers
• Luc Dionne
  Luc Dionne
  Luc Dionne is an award winning screenwriter and director born in Quebec in 1960. Luc's work is largely directed towards the French speaking market. However, many within the industry accredit Dionne's successful Omerta series as being an inspiration for David Chase's hit series The...
  
  
• Jacques Drouin
  Jacques Drouin
  Jacques Drouin is a Canadian animator and director most known for his pinscreen animations.-Biography:Jacques Drouin was born in Mont-Joli, Quebec province, Canada. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal for several years before leaving to study filmmaking at the UCLA in California.He...
  
  
• Georges Dufaux
  Georges Dufaux
  Georges Dufaux was a Canadian documentary film director and cinematographer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Christian Duguay
  Christian Duguay (director)
  Christian Duguay is a Canadian director. He directed the Emmy nominated miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil, which aired on the CBC in May 2003. He is best known for directing the action films Screamers starring Peter Weller and Roy Dupuis and The Art of War starring Wesley Snipes and Michael...
  
  

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• Philippe Falardeau
  Philippe Falardeau
  Philippe Falardeau is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.His first feature film, La Moitié gauche du frigo won "Best Canadian First Feature" at the Toronto International Film Festival and a Best Screenplay nomination at the Quebec-based Jutra Awards...
  
  
• Pierre Falardeau
  Pierre Falardeau
  Pierre Falardeau was a Quebec film and documentary director, pamphleteer and noted activist for Quebec independence.-Profile:Falardeau studied anthropology at university and he taught that subject for a brief period...
  
  
• Robert Favreau
  Robert Favreau
  Robert Favreau is a French Canadian film director and film editor.His film Les muses orphelines earned him Genie Award and Jutra Award nominations for Best Director...
  
  
• Denise Filiatrault
  Denise Filiatrault
  Denise Filiatrault, OC, OQ is a Canadian actress and director.In 1982, she won a "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role" Genie Award for her performance in Les Plouffe...
  
  
• André Forcier
  André Forcier
  André Forcier is a Quebec film director and screenwriter. His work has been linked to Latin American magic realism by its use of fantasy but is firmly rooted in Quebec's reality....
  
  
• Claude Fournier

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• Claude Gagnon
  Claude Gagnon
  Claude Gagnon is a Canadian born director, actor, and producer. Born in 1949 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. He help produce several films such as Visage pâle , Heaven , and looking for Anne .-References:...
  
  
• Denys Gagnon
• Gratien Gélinas
  Gratien Gélinas
  Gratien Gélinas, was a Canadian author, playwright, actor, director, producer and administrator who is considered one of the founders of modern Canadian theatre and film....
  
  
• Jacques Godbout
  Jacques Godbout
  Jacques Godbout, CQ is a Canadian novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet. By his own admission a bit of a dabbler , Godbout has become one of the most important writers of his generation, with a major influence on post-1960 Quebec intellectual life.-Biography:Born in...
  
  
• Bernard Gosselin
  Bernard Gosselin
  Bernard Gosselin was a Canadian cinematographer and documentary film director.-Biography:Born in Drummondville, Quebec, Gosselin studied at the Institut des arts graphiques in Montreal and then worked as a printer. He joined the NFB's title department in 1956 to design titles and credits...
  
  
• François Girard
  François Girard
  François Girard is a French-Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Born in Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit...
  
  
• Marc Girard
• Maxime Giroux
  Maxime Giroux
  Maxime Giroux is a film director from Quebec, Canada. He has directed several short films, videoclips and commercial videos...
  
  
• David Gow
• Daniel Grou
  Daniel Grou
  Daniel Grou, frequently credited as Podz, is a Canadian film and television director. His credits include the films 10½ and Les 7 jours du Talion, as well as episodes of the television series Drop the Beat, The Hunger, Big Wolf on Campus, Vampire High, Les Bougon, Minuit, le soir and Au nom de la...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Paul Gury

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• Pierre Hébert
• Patricio Henriquez
  Patricio Henriquez
  Patricio Henriquez is an award winning Quebec based film-maker.Henriquez grew up and trained in film-making in Chile, leaving the country after Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende....
  
  
• Denis Héroux
  Denis Héroux
  Denis Héroux, OC is a Canadian film director and producer.-Biography:Héroux wanted to become a teacher when he collaborated with Denys Arcand and Stéphane Venne on the 1962 film about life as a student, Seul ou avec d’autres...
  
  
• Christopher Hinton
  Christopher Hinton (animator)
  Christopher Hinton is a Canadian film animator and professor, living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has been twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, in 1991 for the National Film Board of Canada animated short Blackfly and in 2003 for his independently made short...
  
  

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• Stephan Jacques (1967)
• Rodrigue Jean
  Rodrigue Jean
  Rodrigue Jean is an award-winning Canadian film director of Acadian origin. He studied biology, sociology and literature. He was a dancer and choreographer in the 1980s. He then studied theatre and directing in London and Tokyo....
  
  
• Michel Jetté
  Michel Jetté
  Michel Jetté is a Québecois director, screenwriter, producer and editor. He produced three full-length movies, several short films, and over a hundred television reports...
  
  
• René Jodoin
  René Jodoin
  René Jodoin is an animation director and producer who founded the French-language animation studio of the National Film Board of Canada.-Joining the NFB:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Benoît Jutras
  Benoît Jutras
  Benoît Jutras is a Canadian composer known for his unique style of music, which usually includes erhus, bagpipes, and other exotic instruments. His most widely known works are the scores he has written for Cirque du Soleil, including O, Mystère, Quidam, and La Nouba...
  
  
• Pierre Jutras
• Richard Jutras

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• Jean-Claude Labrecque
  Jean-Claude Labrecque
  Jean-Claude Labrecque, is a director and cinematographer who learned the basics of filmmaking at the Quebec Film Office and the National Film Board of Canada.-Career:...
  
  
• Arthur Lamothe
  Arthur Lamothe
  Arthur Lamothe is a French Canadian film director and film producer.-Biography:Lamothe immigrated to Canada in 1953 and immediately got a job as a lumberjack in the Abitibi region of northern Quebec. In 1954 he began studying economic science at the Université de Montréal...
  
  
• Guylaine Lanctôt
• Micheline Lanctôt
  Micheline Lanctôt
  Micheline Lanctôt is an actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.-Biography:Lanctôt's post-secondary education was in music, fine arts and theatre at Collège Jésus-Marie in Outremont, and in art history before switching to film animation, which she...
  
  
• Christian Langlois
  Christian Langlois
  Christian Langlois is a Film director from Montreal, Canada. He has directed several short films, music videos and TV spot. He studied at Université du Québec à Montréal in Communications program: video art and new medias. He published several articles about the role of the technologies and the...
  
  
• Denis Langlois
  Denis Langlois
  Denis Langlois is a French race walker.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
  
• Michel Langlois
• Hugo Latulippe
• Jean-Claude Lauzon
  Jean-Claude Lauzon
  Jean-Claude Lauzon was a Canadian filmmaker. Born to a humble family in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Lauzon worked a variety of odd jobs after dropping out of high school. He went on to study film at the Université du Québec à Montréal at the behest of Andre Petrowski, a member of the National Film...
  
  
• Caroline Leaf
  Caroline Leaf
  Caroline Leaf is a Canadian-American filmmaker and animator.Leaf made her first film, Sand, or Peter and the Wolf, in 1968 at Harvard University. The short was made by dumping sand on a light box and manipulating the textures frame-by-frame.Her second film, Orfeo , had her painting directly on...
  
  
• Francis Leclerc
  Francis Leclerc
  Francis Leclerc is a Canadian film and television director, screenwriter and film editor.- Recognition :* 2005 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction - Looking for Alexander - Won...
  
  
• Jacques Leduc
  Jacques Leduc
  Jacques Leduc is a Canadian film director and cinematographer.-Biography:Leduc began his career in 1961 working as a film critic for the magazine Objectif. The following year, at the age of 21, he was hired as a camera assistant by the NFB...
  
  
• Jean-Pierre Lefebvre
• Guy A. Lepage
  Guy A. Lepage
  Guy A. Lepage is a Canadian comedian turned producer.-Career:Lepage was one of the five founding members of the Quebec comedy group Rock et Belles Oreilles , and remained with the group from 1981 to 1995.Lepage became a media mogul and...
  
  
• Robert Lepage
  Robert Lepage
  Robert Lepage, is a playwright, actor, film director, and stage director from Québec City, Québec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.- Life and work :...
  
  
• Maurice Leroux
• Arthur Lipsett
  Arthur Lipsett
  Arthur Lipsett was a Canadian avant-garde director of short experimental films.In the 1960s he was employed as an animator by the National Film Board of Canada . Lipsett's particular passion was sound. He collected pieces of sound from a variety of sources and fit them together to create an...
  
  
• Colin Low
  Colin Low (filmmaker)
  Colin Archibald Low, CM, RCA is a Canadian animation and documentary filmmaker.Born in Cardston, Alberta, Low attended the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Calgary Institute of Technology, now known as the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology...
  
  
• Jean-Claude Lord
  Jean-Claude Lord
  Jean-Claude Lord is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He was one of the most commercial of the Quebecois directors in the 1970s and aimed his feature films at a mass audience and dealt with political themes in a mainstream, Hollywood style.-Biography:Jean-Claude Lord began his career as...
  
  

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• Francis Mankiewicz
  Francis Mankiewicz
  Francis Mankiewicz was a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. In 1945, his family moved to Montreal, where Francis would spend all his childhood. He was a relative of Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Herman J...
  
  
• Catherine Martin
  Catherine Martin
  Catherine Martin is an Australian costume designer, production designer, set designer, and film producer.-Biography:Catherine Martin went to school at North Sydney Girls High School...
  
  
• Jo Martin
  Jo Martin
  Jo Martin is an actress, best known for playing Natalie Crouch on a BBC1 black sitcom called The Crouches, which aired from September 2003 - 2005....
  
  
• Ahmed Mazouz
• Norman McLaren
  Norman McLaren
  Norman McLaren, CC, CQ was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada...
  
  
• André Melançon
• Robert Ménard
  Robert Ménard
  Robert Ménard is one of the founders and the former secretary-general of the Paris-based international NGO Reporters Sans Frontières....
  
  
• Stefan Miljevic
• Robert Monderie
• Michel Moreau
• Stéphanie Morgenstern
  Stephanie Morgenstern
  Stephanie Grace Morgenstern is a Swiss-Canadian actress, filmmaker, and screenwriter for television and film. Born in Geneva, Switzerland and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Morgenstern began her acting career when she was 15. She has worked extensively on stage, film, and television in both English...
  
  
• Robert Morin
  Robert Morin
  Robert Morin is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer.-Biography:Robert Morin is known for his very personal, dark, and pessimistic "interior views" of family, crime, law enforcement, and human suffering...
  
  
• Korbett Matthews
  Korbett Matthews
  Korbett Matthews is a documentary filmmaker and media educator based in Montreal, Canada.-History:Matthews produces international works which elude categorization...
  
  

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• Pierre Patry
  Pierre Patry
  Pierre Patry is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.-Biography:Pierre Patry began his career in the theatre as an actor and a playwright and is a founding member of the Canadian Association of Amateur Theatre. He joined the NFB in 1957 as a writer on the Panoramique series...
  
  
• Yvan Patry
  Yvan Patry
  Yvan Patry was a Québécois documentary filmmaker.Yvan was born in Iroquois Falls, Ontario.During the 1970s he worked as a professor at Montmorency College in Laval, Quebec, where he produced several educational films....
  
  
• Gabriel Pelletier
• Yves P. Pelletier
  Yves P. Pelletier
  Yves P. Pelletier is a Canadian film director, actor and comedian....
  
  
• Pierre Perrault
  Pierre Perrault
  Pierre Perrault was a Québécois documentary film director. He directed 20 films between 1963 and 1996. He was one of the most important filmmakers in Canada although largely unknown outside of Québec...
  
  
• Aleksandr Petrov
• Luc Picard
  Luc Picard
  Luc Picard is a French Canadian actor and comedian. He was born on September 24, 1961 in Lachine, Quebec, Canada. He has played numerous characters in diverse roles....
  
  
• Benoit Pilon
  Benoît Pilon
  Benoît Pilon is a French-language Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative films and documentaries on the human condition...
  
  
• Anne Claire Poirier
  Anne Claire Poirier
  Anne Claire Poirier is a Canadian film producer, director and screenwriter. She is one of the most important female filmmakers in Canadian history; her documentary film De mère en fille is the first feature film ever directed by a French-Canadian woman...
  
  
• Léa Pool
  Léa Pool
  Léa Pool is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who has also taught film at UQAM. She is openly lesbian. Her 1986 film Anne Trister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1999 film Emporte-moi was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Special...
  
  
• Michel Poulette
• Jean-François Pouliot
  Jean-François Pouliot
  Jean-François Pouliot is a Quebec film director.He was born in Montreal and studied at Concordia University. He worked as an assistant cameraman, while also writing and directing short animated films for the National Film Board...
  
  
• François Prévost
• Émile Proulx-Cloutier

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• Tahani Rached
• Masoud Raouf
• Isabelle Raynaud
• Daniel Robichaud
• Pascal Robitaille
  Pascal Robitaille
  Pascal Robitaille is a director from Quebec.-Filmography:* L'apesanteur / Weightlessness * Je me souviens / I Remember * Le Goût du néant / The Taste of Nothingness...
  
  
• Daniel Roby
  Daniel Roby
  Daniel Roby is a Canadian film director and cinematographer. An alumnus of the film programs at Concordia University and the University of Southern California, he worked as a camera operator and cinematographer on numerous film and television projects before releasing his own directorial debut, La...
  
  
• Sébastien Rose

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• Louis Saia
• Ken Scott
  Ken Scott
  Ken Scott is an English record producer and recording engineer.-Career:Scott started at the age of 16 working in the tape library at Abbey Road Studios. He became a recording engineer working with such acts as The Beatles, Jeff Beck, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones and Procol Harum...
  
  
• Cynthia Scott
  Cynthia Scott
  Cynthia Scott, RCA, is a film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. She won the 1983 Academy Award for her short documentary Flamenco at 5:15, produced by the National Film Board of Canada....
  
  
• Mack Sennett
  Mack Sennett
  Mack Sennett was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy"...
  
  
• Beverly Shaffer
  Beverly Shaffer
  Beverly Shaffer is a filmmaker in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Shaffer spent the bulk of her professional career with the National Film Board of Canada , directing short documentaries and dramas, including I'll Find a Way, a documentary about a young girl with spina bifida which won the 1977 Academy...
  
  
• Yves Simoneau
  Yves Simoneau
  Yves Simoneau is a Canadian film and television director.-Recognition:His acclaimed 1987 crime drama Pouvoir intime garnered multiple Genie Awards nominations including best direction at the 8th Genie Awards...
  
  

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• Paul Tana
• Albert Tessier
  Albert Tessier
  Albert Tessier was a French-speaking Canadian priest, historian and a film maker.He was born on in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Mauricie.- Life as a Priest and Educator :...
  
  
• Éric Tessier
• Ziad Touma
  Ziad Touma
  Ziad Touma is a Lebanese Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1974 and residing in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the founder of the film, television and digital media production company Couzin Films .-Earlier Years:...
  
  
• Ricardo Trogi
  Ricardo Trogi
  Ricardo Trogi is a French Canadian filmmaker, director and actor.-Career:Trogi’s first two films, Québec-Montréal, about seven twenty-something travellers driving between the two cities, and Horloge Biologique, a look at three men and their decisions about having children, were both critical and...
  
  
• André Turpin

External links

• Website of the Association des realisateurs et realisatrices du Québec (contains list of current Quebec directors)