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Making Movie History: Monique Fortier (2014)

Directed by Denys Desjardins

Documentary · 6m

Monique Fortier was one of the few women to make her way in the male world of the NFB in the 1950s. But make her way she did. Beginning as a secretary, she graduated to editing and in 1963 she became the first francophone woman to direct her own film, À l'heure de la décolonisation. Her NFB colleague Anne Claire Poirier would make her first film the same year. Fortier subsequently returned to editing, quietly labouring at the Steenbeck, shaping films that helped define Direct Cinema.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Denys Desjardins

Details

Release date
2014-01-01
Runtime
6m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Countries
Canada
Production
ONF | NFB