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DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY Richard Brouillette ![]() Credit: Aïda Maigre-Touchet
Richard Brouillette is a film
producer, director, editor and programmer. Starting as a
film critic for the Montréal weekly, Voir,
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 center La Casa Obscura, a
multi-disciplinary exhibition space, where he still runs
a weekly cine-club called Les projections libérantes, for
which he is also the projectionist.
FilmographyHe produced and directed Too Much Is Enough (doc., 111 min., 1995) for which he has won the prestigious M. Joan Chalmers Award (Best Canadian Documentary), in 1996; Carpe diem (essay, 5 min., 1995), and Encirclement – Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy (doc., 160 min., 2008), for which he won six awards including the prestigious Robert and Frances Flaherty Grand Prize of the 2009 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival and Grand Prize La Poste Suisse of the 2009 Visions du réel festival. More recently, he produced and directed Prends garde à la douceur des choses (essay, 2 min., 2014) and Oncle Bernard – A Counter-Lesson in Economics (doc., 79 min., 2015), which won the La Vague Award for Best Documentary of the 2015 FICFA. He also took part in the collective film St-Henri, the 26th of August (doc., 87 min, 2011). He has also produced six feature length films: Tree with Severed Branches, by Pascale Ferland (doc., 81 min. 2005), Barbers – A Men’s Story, by Claude Demers (doc., 82 min., 2006), Les désœuvrés, by René Bail (fiction, 72 min. 1959-2007), Adagio for a Biker, by Pascale Ferland (doc., 90 min., 2008), Ladies in Blue, by Claude Demers (doc., 90 min., 2009), and Chantier, by René Bail (doc., 75 min., 1957-2015). He is currently producing the feature length documentary The Hungry Half, directed by Mathieu Roy (for which Brouillette furthermore wrote the script). Also, he has acted as a consulting producer on a number of documentary projects, including Les mers amères, by Félix Lamarche (currently in postproduction). Richard Brouillette has always been very active in Québec’s independent film community, participating in militant actions and devoting himself to the cause of artist-run centers. Since 1993, he has also sat on the Boards of various organizations, including Main Film (2002-2015). He is currently part of the Boards of Cinema Politica, and l’Amicale de la culture indépendante, the coop that manages Casa Obscura. In 2014 he won the CALQ Award for Best artist of the year in Mauricie. Oncle Bernard – A Counter-Lesson in Economics documentary, 2015, 79 min., 16mm / HD, B&W, Québec-Catalunya La Vague Award for Best
Documentary, FICFA 2015
Official selection, FIDMarseille (Marseille, France), 2015 Official selection, Viennale (Vienna, Austria), 2015 Official selection, FIFF (Tübingen-Stuttgart, Germany), 2015 Official selection, Filmer à tout prix (Brussels, Belgium), 2015 Official selection, CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, Denmark), 2015 Official selection, RIDM (Montréal, Canada), 2015 Official selection, FICFA (Moncton, Canada), 2015 Official selection, Festival Dei Popoli (Florence, Italy), 2015 Official selection, IFF Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands), 2016 Official selection, Rencontres Cinéma de Manosque (Manosque, France), 2016 Official selection, Docs Against Gravity (Warsaw, Poland), 2016 Prends garde à la douceur des choses (commissioned by Visions du réel) essay, 2014, 2 min., HD, colour, Québec Official selection,
Visions du réel (Nyon, Suisse), 2014
A sequence shot filmed in L’Avenir,
Québec, that is thought-provoking... A film made in the
context of Traces du
futur (filmmakers that were selected at Visions
du Réel in the past twenty editions celebrate the
Festival's anniversary in 2014 by each making a short
film in which they expose their view of the future).
St-Henri, the 26th of August (collective film under the direction of Shannon Walsh) documentary, 2011, 87 min., HD, colour, Québec Official selection, Hot
Docs (Toronto, Canada), 2011
Official selection, Durban International Film Festival (Durban,Sputh Africa), 2011 Official selection, Festival international du film de Beijing (Beijing, China), 2012 Official selection, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (Durham, USA), 2012 Official selection, Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois (Montréal, Canada), 2012 A collaborative work made in the
spirit of cinéma-vérité, St-Henri, the 26th of August was
directed by Shannon Walsh and 16 fellow documentary
filmmakers. Chronicling life in a former working-class
Montreal neighbourhood over a 24-hour period, St-Henri,
the 26th of August follows several compelling stories
and characters. The film is an homage to the 1962 Hubert
Aquin classic À
Saint-Henri le cinq septembre.
Encirclement – Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy documentary, 2008, 160 min., 16 mm/HD, B&W, Québec Robert et Frances Flaherty
Grand Prize, Yamagata IDFF 2009
La Poste Suisse Grand Prize, Visions du réel 2009 Johnnie Walker Audience Award for Best Feature Film, IndieLisboa 2009 Pierre et Yolande Perrault Award for Best First or Second Documentary, RVCQ 2009 La Vague Award for Best Documentary (ex aequo), FICFA 2009 Special Jury Mention for the Amnesty International Award, IndieLisboa 2009 Official selection, Berlinale, Forum section (Berlin, Germany), 2009 Official selection, Visions du réel (Nyon, Switzerland), 2009 Official selection, Yamagata IDFF (Yamagata, Japan), 2009 Official selection, Viennale (Vienna, Austria), 2009 Official selection, Hot Docs (Toronto, Canada), 2009 Official selection, BAFICI (Buenos Aires, Argentina), 2009 Official selection, IndieLisboa (Lisbon, Portugal), 2009 Official selection, IFF Bratislava (Bratislava, Slovakia), 2009 Official selection, Mostra Internacional de Cinema (São Paulo, Brasil), 2009 Official selection, Ghent International Film Festival (Ghent, Belgium), 2009 Official selection, CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, Denmark), 2009 Official selection, Documenta Madrid (Madrid, Spain), 2009 Official selection, Oslo Internasjonale Film Festival (Oslo, Norway), 2009 Official selection, Jihlava IDFF (Jihlava, Czech Republic), 2009 Official selection, Vancouver International Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada), 2009 Official selection, Festival do Rio (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil), 2009 Official selection, Leeds International Film Festival (Leeds, UK), 2009 Official selection, Cork Film Festival (Cork, Ireland), 2009 Official selection, Spokane International Film Festival (Spokane, USA), 2010 Official selection, Planet Doc Review, (Warsaw, Poland), 2010 Official selection, Ronda International Film Festival (Ronda, Spain), 2010 Official selection, FIFF (Tübingen-Stuttgart, Germany), 2009 Official selection, This Human World (Vienna, Austria), 2009 Official selection, À nous de voir (Oullins, France), 2009 Official selection, FCIU (Montevideo, Uruguay), 2009 Official selection, FICFA (Moncton, Canada), 2009 Official selection, Festival O.F.N.I. (Poitiers, France), 2009 Official selection, Festival de cinéma des trois Amériques (Québec, Canada), 2009 Official selection, Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois (Montréal, Canada), 2009 Official selection, RIDM (Montréal, Canada), 2008 Drawing upon the thinking and
analyses of renowned intellectuals, this documentary
sketches a portrait of neo-liberal ideology and examines
the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates
throughout the world. Neo-liberalism’s one-size-fits-all
dogmas are well known: deregulation, reducing the role
of the State, privatization, limiting inflation rather
than unemployment, etc. In other words, depoliticizing
the economy and putting it into the hands of the
financial class. And these dogmas are gradually settling
into our consciousness because they’re being broadcast
across a vast and pervasive network of propaganda. But
behind the ideological smokescreen, behind the neat
concepts of natural order and the harmony of interests
in a free market, beyond the panacea of the "invisible
hand," what is really going on?
Too Much Is Enough documentary, 1995, 111 min., 16mm, colour and B&W Joan Chalmers Award, for
Best Canadian Documentary, 1996
Official selection, Arsenals Film Festival, Riga, Latvia, 1996 Official selection, Figuera da Foz Film Festival, Portugal, 1996 Official selection, Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, 1995 Too
Much Is Enough gives voice to Gilles Groulx
(1931-1994), a.k.a. "le lynx inquiet", one of Québec's
most outsanding and original filmmakers – and certainly
the most politicized and censored. Tragically, Groulx's
career was cut short in 1981 after he suffered a head
trauma in an automobile accident that inexorably
isolated him from his peers. Groulx was soon forgotten.
Between 1989 and 1994, Richard Brouillette met regularly
with Gilles Groulx, recording the filmmaker's thoughts
on his work and life. The film combines sober images
from these sessions with excerpts from Groulx's films
and some of his paintings, as well as archival footage.
Carpe Diem (Segment of the feature length collective Un film de cinéastes) essay, 1995, 5 min., 16mm, B&W Opening night film,
Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, 1995
Official selection, Visions du réel, Nyon, Switzerland, 1995 "One can't write a film, it has to
be seized."
A short manifesto, inspired by Dziga Vertov (We) and Gilles Groulx (Propos sur la scénarisation). |
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