Name Denys Desjardins | Role Film director | |
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Movies The Great Resistance, The Private Life of Cinema Similar People Marcel Carriere, Michel Brault, Fernand Dansereau, Jean‑Claude Labrecque, Denis Heroux | ||
AU PAYS DES COLONS (bande annonce)
Denys Desjardins (born 1966 in Montreal, Quebec), is a film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor and film historian for more than twenty years. After completing studies in literature, film and communications, he directed several acclaimed films.
Contents
- AU PAYS DES COLONS bande annonce
- RVCQ MICHEL BRAULT EN DIRECT Un collage de Denys Desjardins
- Career
- as director screenwriter
- as producer
- as cinematographer
- References
RVCQ : MICHEL BRAULT EN DIRECT: Un collage de Denys Desjardins
Career
Desjardins received the Quebec Film Critic award for best short film two years in a row for La Dame aux poupees (The Doll Lady) (1996) and for Boris Lehman, filmmaker (1997), a portrait of Boris Lehman the Belgian filmmaker for whom life is a reason to make films, and making films is a reason for living. He then joined the National Film Board of Canada, where he directed Almanach 1999-2000 and My Eye for a Camera – nominated for a Jutra Award for best documentary in 2003 – as well as Being Human and Rebel with a Camera, which won him the Quebec Film Critic award for best medium-length documentary.
Desjardins has also produced and co-directed the short films Me Bob Robert and Peter and the Penny; the latter received the award for best short fiction film at the 2006 Festival Images en vue. Desjardins’ third feature-length film, The Great Resistance, was nominated for a Jutra Award for best documentary in 2008. His latest documentary (The Private Life of Cinema) follows the path of filmmakers who never gave up on their dream to produce feature-length fictions films and create a Quebec film industry.