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Michel Brault, OQ (25 June 1928 – 21 September 2013) was a Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a leading figure of Direct Cinema , characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s.
Michel Brault was born on 25 June 1928 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Of Whales, the Moon, and Men (1963), Orders (1974) and Threshold (1981). He died on 21 September 2013 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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- Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
A comprehensive biography of Michel Brault, a pioneering documentary filmmaker and a leading figure in Québec's Quiet Revolution. Learn about his life, career, achievements and legacy in Canadian cinema.
Michel Brault was born on 25 June 1928 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Of Whales, the Moon, and Men (1963), Orders (1974) and Threshold (1981). He died on 21 September 2013 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- June 25, 1928
- September 21, 2013
Sep 22, 2013 · Acclaimed Quebec filmmaker Michel Brault, in the midst of weekend honours for his influential work as both director and cinematographer, has died at age 85. Brault succumbed to a heart attack...
Director and Cinematographer. 24 June 1928 to 20 September 2013. A French Canadian director and cinematographer who was amongst the pioneers of handheld camera techniques, Brault initially balanced photography with documentary directing before later employing his cinema vérité style in fiction.
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Making Movie History: Michel Brault. Back in 1947, while still making amateur movies with Claude Jutra, could Brault have known that he would mark film history? His defiant experimentalism shook things up at the NFB, and films like Les raquetteurs (1958) would launch an irreversible movement.
