Richard Brouillette
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Richard Brouillette is a Quebec film producer, director, editor and programmer, born in 1970 in Montreal.
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[edit] Biography
Starting as a film critic for the Montréal weekly, Voir (1989), he then worked for Québec’s top independent distribution company, Cinéma Libre (1989-1999), which has since folded. In 1993, he founded the artist-run centre Casa Obscura, a multidisciplinary exhibition space. Here, he still runs a weekly cine-club called Les projections libérantes, for which he is also the projectionist. He has produced and directed two featurelength documentary films and has directed an experimental short film. He has also produced six featurelength films, including five documentaries.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] as director, editor and scriptwriter
- 1995 : Too Much is Enough (Trop c'est assez)
- 1995 : Carpe diem (segment of the featurelenght group film Un film de cinéastes)
- 2008 : Encirclement - Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy (L'Encerclement - La démocratie dans les rets du néolibéralisme)
[edit] as producer
- 1995 : Too Much is Enough (Trop c'est assez)
- 2005 : Tree with Severed Branches (L’Arbre aux branches coupées)
- 2006 : Barbers - A Men's Story (Barbiers – Une histoire d’hommes)
- 2007 : Les désoeuvrés
- 2008 : Adagio for a Biker (Adagio pour un gars de bicycle)
- 2008 : Encirclement - Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy (L'Encerclement - La démocratie dans les rets du néolibéralisme)
- 2009 : Ladies in Blue (Les dames en bleu)
- 2009 : Chantier
[edit] Awards
- 1996 : M. Joan Chalmers Award for best Canadian documentary
- 2009 : Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize (Grand Prize) (11th Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival)
- 2009 : Grand Prize (15th Visions du réel festival)
- 2009 : Audience Award for Best feature film (6th IndieLisboa festival)
- 2009 : Pierre and Yolande Perrault Award for best emerging documentary filmmaker (27th Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois)
- 2009 : La Vague Award for Best documentary film (ex aequo with Hommes à louer, by Rodrigue Jean) (23rd Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie
- 2009 : Special Jury Mention for the Amnesty International Award (6th IndieLisboa festival)
