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Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story
20021 h 22 min 17 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Paule Baillargeon
Production: Anne FrankAndré ThébergeNicole LamotheYves Bisaillon
Script: Jefferson Lewis
Produced by Fox-Fire Films and Production Docu 2 Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund, Telefilm Canada, Québec Film and Television Tax Credit, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit and Société de développement des entreprises culturelles - Québec, with the assistance of the Ontario Film & Television Tax Credit, in collaboration with Radio-Canada in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Like a shadow play, this intimate and subtle portrait explores the complex personality of Claude Jutra (1930-1986), a daring and innovative filmmaker who catapulted Quebec cinema into the modern age. His rich legacy includes some of Canada's most best-loved films: Mon oncle Antoine, A Chairy Tale (co-directed with Norman McLaren), À tout prendre, WOW and Kamouraska.
Such Jutra contemporaries as Bernardo Bertolucci, Geneviève Bujold, Michel Brault and Saul Rubinek provide a vivid account of the man and his times. Archival materials and film excerpts also offer insight into the life and work of an artist who rubbed shoulders with famed French directors Truffaut, Cocteau and Rouch. The film shows Jutra as a sensitive soul buffeted by the world, a brilliant creator who gave his life completely to cinema.
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Subject categories
- Film and Video Arts > Historical PerspectivesPortraits
- History > Canada 1946-1991
- Media Education > Documentary Film
- History and Citizenship Education > Modernization of Quebec Society (1929-1980)
- Arts Education > Visual Arts
Credits
- director
- Paule Baillargeon
- director of photography
- Michael Savoie
- editor
- Dominique Sicotte
- script
- Jefferson Lewis
- narration - writer
- Jefferson Lewis
- head researcher
- Jefferson Lewis
- researcher
- Julie Laferrière
- Sylvia Mezei
- translation
- Jefferson Lewis
- André Théberge
- narrator
- Paule Baillargeon
- original music
- Yves Laferrière
- musician
- Yves Laferrière
- Blanche Baillargeon
- Didier Dumoutier
- music recording
- Luc Papineau
- mixing
- Luc Papineau
- sound design
- Jeremy MacLaverty
- James Mark Stewart
- sound
- Alain Létourneau
- Marie-France Delagrave
- art director
- Bruno La Haye
- gaffer
- Bernard Arseneau
- hairstylist
- Réjean Goderre
- stills photographer
- Attila Dory
- production assistant
- Roy Hubler
- Mark Lee Poy
- assistant to the director
- Manon Houle
- animation
- Michèle Cournoyer
- assistant picture editor
- Jean-François Forget
- transcription services
- Flaming Fingers
- assistant to the producer
- Patricia Lavoie
- Anne Hooper
- Johanne Bergeron
- project manager
- Suzanne Comtois
- business affairs
- Deborah MacNeil
- Del Mehes
- post-production supervision
- Nancy E. Mullins
- Cori Doern
- video post-production
- Covitec
- video post production services
- The Post Group
- online editor
- Jean-François Forget
- Graham Saywell
- re-recording mixer
- Todd Warren
- Brad Zoern
- re-recording assistant
- Colin McLellan
- production administration
- Denise DesLauriers
- production administration assistant
- Marie-Christine Guité
- Lise Lévesque
- technical coordination production
- Jean-François Laprise
- technical coordination post-production
- Jean-François Laprise
- distribution officer
- Joanne Carrière
- insurance
- Jones Brown and Associates Ltd.
- legal services
- Rafe Engle
- Zénaïde Lussier
- archival clearances
- Ginette Lavigne
- producer in development
- Diane Poitras
- producer
- Anne Frank
- André Théberge
- Nicole Lamothe
- Yves Bisaillon
Awards
- Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary (Paule Baillargeon)Gemini Awards
- Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary Program (Jefferson Lewis)Gemini Awards
- Gemini Award for Best History/Biography Documentary programGemini Awards
- Bronze Plaque Award - Category: The Humanities International Film and Video Festival
- Gemeaux Award for Best BiographyPrix Gémeaux