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Jacques Leduc
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jacques Leduc (born November 25, 1941) is a Canadian film director and cinematographer. Leduc began his career in 1961 working as a film critic for the magazine Objectif. The fol…
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Jacques Leduc (born November 25, 1941) is a Canadian film director and cinematographer. 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. Over the course of the next few years he worked under such filmmakers as Denys Arcand, Gilles Carle, and Don Owen. In 1965 he began working as both Director and Cinematographer; his first film as director was a documentary short entitled Chantal en vrac. Leduc continued his work as Director with his first feature film in 1967 entitled Nomininque, depuis qu'il existe and his first feature documentary film in 1969 entitled Cap d'espoir. The documentary film was "about the muted violence that existed [in Quebec] and the monopoly over news held by Power Corp." and became one of the most famous cases of censorship at the NFB when it was banned by NFB commissioner Hugo McPherson. Leduc continued working on critically acclaimed films throughout the 70s and 80s such as On est loin du soleil (1970), Tendresse ordinaire (1973), and Trois pommes à côté du sommeil (1988). In 1990 he left the NFB and became a freelance filmmaker.[3] In 1992 he directed the film La vie fantôme; the film was named Best Canadian Film at the Montreal World Film Festival and earned a Genie Award for Best Screenplay nomination. Since then he has primarily worked with other Directors as their cinematographer and in 2008 was awarded the Prix Albert-Tessier.
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2011
The Private Life of Cinema
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2005
Trying to Describe Oneself
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2005
Tree with Severed Branches
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2005
Entretien avec Anne Claire Poirier
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2004
Soraida, a Woman of Palestine
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2004
La beauté du geste
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2003
100% Bio
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2002
La main invisible
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2001
Bad Girl
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2001
La loi de l'eau
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2001
For a Song
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2001
My Eye for a Camera
Movie Jacques Leduc
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2000
Stardom
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1999
Emergency! A Critical Situation
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1999
Forest Alert
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1998
When I Will Be Gone...
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1997
You Cried: Let Me Go
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1997
Le temps qu'il fait
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1997
Four Women of Egypt
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1992
La vie fantôme
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1991
Montreal Stories
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1990
Creative Process: Norman McLaren
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1990
Au chic Resto Pop
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1989
Lessons on Life
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1987
Haïti, Nous là! Nou La!
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1987
Le temps des cigales
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1986
Bam Pay A! – Rends-moi mon pays!
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1985
Cinéma, cinéma
Movie Self
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1984
The Last Glacier
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1984
L'Émotion dissonante
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1983
Our Land, Our Truth
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1982
St. Lawrence: Stairway to the Sea
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1982
Plenty of Nothing
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1982
Albédo
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1978
Lundi - Une chaumière, un coeur
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1978
Mardi - Un jour anonyme
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1978
Friday: About Cars
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1978
Le Plan Sentimental
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1977
Samedi - Le Ventre de la nuit
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1977
Dimanche - Granit
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