Pierre Patry

Pierre Patry
Pierre Patry in his home at Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac, Quebec. Winter 2012
Born(1933-11-02)November 2, 1933
Hull, Quebec, Canada
DiedJune 7, 2014(2014-06-07) (aged 80)
Occupation(s)Film director, Film producer, screenwriter
Years active1950s-1980s

Pierre Patry (November 2, 1933 – June 7, 2014) was a Canadian film director and screenwriter.[1]

Biography

Born in Hull, Quebec, Patry began his career in the theatre as an actor and a playwright. He was a founding member of the Canadian Association of Amateur Theatre. He joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1957 as a writer on the Panoramique series. Patry was a major force in the beginning of the Quebec feature-film industry in the sixties. He directed three features, most notably Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête) in 1964.[1]

He left the NFB in 1963 to co-found the film cooperative Coopératio with Roger Blais and Jean-Claude Lord.[1] Unfortunately, the company shut down after five years because of systemic problems in the financing and distribution of feature films.

In 1981 he was a major player in the development of the French language educational television station Canal Savoir.

Patri died on June 7, 2014.[2]

Filmography

As director

Fiction

  • Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine - 1962, short
  • Françoise (Il y eut un soir... il y eut un matin) - 1964, short (re-released as part of the 1964 anthology film Trois Femmes)
  • Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête) - 1964
  • Caïn (Les Marcheurs de la nuit) - 1965
  • Rope Around the Neck (La corde au cou) - 1965

Documentaries

  • Eye Witness No. 99 (Documentary series Co-Directed with Hector Lemieux and Jacques Bobet, 1958) (Segment La roulotte)
  • Germaine Guèvremont romancière (Short film, 1959)
  • Les petites soeurs (Short film, 1959)
  • Le chanoine Lionel Groulx, historien (Short film, 1960)
  • Collèges contemporain (Short film, 1961)
  • Croisements et profits (Short film Co-Directed with Clément Perron, 1961)
  • Loisirs (Short film Co-Directed with Clément Perron, 1962)
  • Petit discours de la méthode (Short film Co-Directed with Claude Jutra, 1963)
  • Ghosts of a River (Trois hommes au mille carré) 1966 (Short film Co-Directed with Jacques Kasma, 1966)
  • Shapp for Governor (Short film Co-Directed with Morten Parker, 1966)
  • Infirmière de nuit (Short film, 1966)

As writer

  • The Little Sisters (Les petites soeurs) - 1959
  • Germaine Guèvremont, romancière - 1959
  • Collège contemporain - 1960
  • Le grand duc - 1959–1963
  • Le chanoine Lionel Groulx, historien - 1960
  • Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine - 1962
  • Ti-Jean caribou - 1963–1966
  • Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête) - 1964
  • Rope Around the Neck (La corde au cou) - 1965

As producer

References

  1. ^ a b c Tom McSorley. "Pierre Patry". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2012-05-15.
  2. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond (June 12, 2014). "Le cinéaste et producteur Pierre Patry est décédé". Films du Québec.


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