Le nord au coeur
Since 1984, Rapide-Blanc has offered original and committed cinema in the image of its founders. After celebrating their 35 years at the Cinémathèque as part of RIDM 2019, Rapide-Blanc is now offering a series of 4 more recent films from its catalog.
The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
Presented by Productions Rapide-Blanc
Le Nord au Coeur offers us a larger-than-life character, a pioneer of geography and a great defender of aboriginality: Louis-Edmond Hamelin.
This recognized intellectual, this geographer and linguist whose books have been honored is also an inspired creator, who knew how to invent the words that were missing to describe our northernness. A "famous unknown" to be discovered thanks to the images always full of truth, humor and sensitivity of filmmaker Serge Giguère.
Serge Giguère
Resolutely humanist, Serge Giguère’s cinema offers intimate journeys where reality and imagination intertwine to open up the secret dimension that connects us to one another. He was the recipient of the Governor General’s Award (2008) and the Albert-Tessier Award (2021). Starting as an assistant cameraman for master documentarians Pierre Perrault and Arthur Lamothe, he then founded Les films d’aventures sociales du Québec in 1974 with Robert Tremblay and they co-directed three films together, including Belle famille (1978). Giguère then joined forces with Sylvie Van Brabant to create Les Productions du Rapide-Blanc in 1984, where he directed most of his films, including Oscar Thiffault, The King of Drums and My Mother’s Letters. Driven By Dreams (2007) (Special Jury Award Best Canadian Documentary, Hot Docs 2007) along with Finding MacPherson (2015) both earned a Jutra Award for Best Quebec Documentary. Serge Giguère is one of Quebec’s most important documentary filmmakers of the last few decades.
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Louis-Edmond Hamelin. Photo : Alain Giguère
Louis-Edmond Hamelin. Photo : Alain Giguère
Serge Giguère et Louis-Edmond Hamelin. Photo : Alain Giguère
Elisabeth Ashini et Louis-Edmond Hamelin. Photo : Amis du Mushuau-nipi/Jean-Phlippe L. Messier
Les Productions Rapide-Blanc
Since 1984, Rapide-Blanc has been offering original and committed cinema in the image of its founders. Director and producer Sylvie Van Brabant and filmmaker Serge Giguère set the tone with Depuis que le monde est monde and Oscar Thiffault. Numerous collaborators have since come to Rapide-Blanc to create films that stand out for their sensitivity and topicality. Rapide-Blanc works mainly in the development and production of auteur films and innovative documentaries with a social impact, shown in theatres, festivals and on television.
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