NFB Pioneers: Michel Brault

200455 min 25 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Lucia Piccinni

Production: Christina PochmurskyLucia Piccinni

Script: Lucia Piccinni

Produced by The Documentary Channel in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada.

Renowned for his artistic sense of capturing images, Michel Brault revolutionized the cameraman's role in film. Part poet, part inventor--he pioneered a technique for shooting synch sound interviews and walking with the hand held camera. This episode examines the best of Brault's films--as he remembers the early beginnings of the art of filmmaking... before and after sound was synched to image.

Subject categories


  • Film and Video Arts > National Film Board of CanadaPortraitsTechnology

Credits


executive producer
Christina Pochmursky
writer
Lucia Piccinni
producer
Lucia Piccinni
director
Lucia Piccinni
interviewer
Christina Pochmursky
editor
Jayson Chan
director of photography
Eric Schurman
sound recordist
Mike Sanders
audio editor
Benjamin Gilchrist
mixer
Benjamin Gilchrist
music producer
Ray Melana
music composer
Ray Melana
production manager
Thérèse Attard
research
Lucia Piccinni
Donald Bidd
photo research
Véronique Da Silva
Sylvia Mezei
stock footage research
Sylvie Ménard
Sylvia Mezei
graphic animation
John Ford
online editor
Christopher Keppy
Jayson Chan
assistant editor
Sheilah MacDonald
production assistant
Eric Neher
John Pilkey
supervising executive producer
Maryke McEwen
Ravida Din