Michel Brault

Michel Brault

Birthday: 1928-06-25

Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Biography: Michel Brault (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. Brault was a pioneer of the hand-held camera aesthetic.

Movies

Live Before the Letter
Live Before the Letter

Thanks to the development of techniques and the adventurous spirit of pioneering filmmakers, among w...

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Québec...?
Québec...?

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, a...

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La beauté du geste
La beauté du geste

A documentary about the act of filmmaking....

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Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story
Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story

A revealing look at the great Quebecois director who gave us such classic films as Mon Oncle Antoine...

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Capturing Reality
Capturing Reality

From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol M...

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Cinéma, cinéma
Cinéma, cinéma

An anthology of sequences from the best films that the National Film Board of Canada produced since ...

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