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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.
Oct 30, 2008 · A pioneering documentary filmmaker, and the only Canadian to win the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Michel Brault was one of Canada’s most acclaimed and revered filmmakers.
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.
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...
Sep 23, 2013 · MONTREAL – Tributes were paid Monday to award-winning filmmaker Michel Brault, a pioneer of the cinema-verite movement and the only Canadian ever to win the Cannes prize for best director.
Apr 1, 2007 · Michel Brault and Claude Jutra were at the forefront in helping Québec establish a national cinema distinct from their fellow Canadians. Jutra began making films at the age of eighteen, when he enlisted the help of Brault to produce Movement perpetual, ...
Sep 20, 2009 · Described by the Guardian as “a shattering indictment of the misuse of power,” Michel Brault’s Les Ordres is a poetic and lucid docudrama based on the experiences of 50 people who were detained during the October Crisis.
