Arthur Lamothe

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Arthur Lamothe (born December 7, 1928 in Saint-Mont , France ; † September 18, 2013 ) was a French- Canadian film director and film producer .

life and work

Arthur Lamothe was born in Saint-Mont in the French department of Gers in 1928 . In 1953 he emigrated to Canada and immediately got a job as a lumberjack . His first film, Bûcherons de la Manouane, from 1962, which he made with Bernard Gosselin and Guy Borremans , is about a lumberjack camp. Lamothe has been associated with the National Film Board of Canada as a researcher and screenwriter since the late 1950s.

From 1954 to 1958, Lamothe studied economics at the University of Montreal and , after graduating, wrote for Radio Canada until 1961 . In 1962 he wrote the screenplay Dimanche d'Amérique , which was filmed by his longtime friend and colleague Gilles Carle . Lamothe founded his own film production company in 1965 , the Société générale cinématographique .

Lamothe was a lecturer at the Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal , the École normal Jacques-Cartier Montréal , Cégep du Vieux Montréal , Université du Québec à Chicoutimi and the Université de Montréal .

In addition to numerous documentaries , he made several feature films

Lamothe became known for its sophisticated documentaries about Canada's First Nations . Between 1974 and 1984 he made 13 television films, including Carcajou et le péril blanc and La terre de l'homme . Mémoire battante (1983) and Le silence des fusils (1996) are impressive examples of ethnological film .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le cinéaste Arthur Lamothe n'est plus
  2. ↑ Freewebs , accessed July 14, 2013 (French).
  3. ↑ Pierre Véronneau: The Canadian Encyclopedia Arthur Lamothe , accessed on July 14, 2013 (English).
  4. ↑ Rene Robitaille: Un hommage, dans le cadre de la Francofête These and his other films (PDF; 149 kB) accessed on July 14, 2013 (French)
  5. ↑ Zoominfo Arthur Lamothe , accessed on July 14, 2013 (English).
  6. ↑ Order of Canada , accessed on July 14, 2013.
  7. ↑ Marcel Jean: Prix ​​Albert-Tessier 1980 , accessed on July 14, 2013 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Lamothe, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-Canadian film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Mont , Gers department
DATE OF DEATH 18th September 2013