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Carole Laganière
Born1959 (1959)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died(2023-02-06)February 6, 2023
Occupationdocumentary film director
Years active1980s-2020s

Carole Laganière (1959 - February 6, 2023) was a Canadian film director from Quebec.[1] Although she made a number of short and feature-length narrative fiction films through her career, she was known principally as a director of documentary films.[1]

Born and raised in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve quarter of Montreal,[2] she studied film at the Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle et des techniques de diffusion in Belgium.[1] After making two short films she made her full-length debut with the film Aline in 1992,[3] and turned to documentary filmmaking while teaching at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Her filmmaking career consisted almost entirely of documentary films afterward, except for a brief return to narrative filmmaking with the 2018 short film Uncertain Spring (Un printemps incertain).[1]

She became best known for East End Kids (Vues de l'est) and its sequel East End Forever (L'Est pour toujours), in which she profiled the hopes and dreams of young kids growing up in the same Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood where she had been raised.[4] Her other noteworthy films included The Fiancée of Life (La fiancée de la vie), a film about children coping with the deaths of parents which won the Best Canadian Feature Documentary award at the 2002 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,[5] and Absences, about her own mother's battle with Alzheimer's disease.[6]

In 2015, five of her films were screened in a special retrospective program at Hot Docs.[7]

Her final film, Break Free (Fuir), about women escaping domestic violence, premiered at the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma in 2022.[8]

Filmography

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  • Le Mouchoir de poche - 1987
  • Le Jour de congé - 1989
  • Aline - 1992
  • Histoires de musées - 1996
  • Des mots voyageurs - 1997
  • The Fiancée of Life (La fiancée de la vie) - 2001
  • The Moon and the Violin (Un toit, un violon, la lune) - 2003
  • East End Kids (Vues de l'est) - 2004
  • Country - 2006
  • City Park, A Little Music for the Soul (Parc Lafontaine, petite musique urbaine) - 2006
  • My Park, My Plains (Mon parc, mes plaines) - 2008
  • Year One (Première année) - 2010
  • East End Forever (L'Est pour toujours) - 2011
  • Absences - 2013
  • Los Adioses - 2015
  • Uncertain Spring (Un printemps incertain) - 2015
  • Quartiers sous tension - 2017
  • Sylvie à l’école - 2018
  • Guillaume - 2019
  • Break Free (Fuir) - 2022

Awards

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Award Date of ceremony Category Work Result Ref(s)
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2002 Best Canadian Feature Documentary The Fiancée of Life (La fiancée de la vie) Won [5]
2003 Best Canadian Short or Mid-Length Documentary The Moon and the Violin (Un toit, un violon, la lune) Won [9]
Jutra Awards 2005 Best Documentary Film East End Kids (Vues de l'est) Nominated [10]
Quebec City Film Festival 2013 Public Award, Canadian Film Absences Won [11]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Carole Laganière, réalisatrice de Jour de congé, est décédée". Ici Radio-Canada, February 6, 2023.
  2. ^ "« L'Est pour toujours » prend l'affiche". Ici Radio-Canada, May 12, 2011.
  3. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Aline – Film de Carole Laganière". Films du Québec, January 2, 2009.
  4. ^ Martin Gignac, "Vues de l'Est: une adolescence plus tard". Métro, May 12, 2011.
  5. ^ a b "Hot Docs prize goes to Montreal director". The Globe and Mail, May 7, 2002.
  6. ^ Alexandre Vigneault, "Absences de Carole Laganière: lettre de disparitions". La Presse, August 26, 2013.
  7. ^ Jason Anderson, "Canadian filmmaker to be showcased at Hot Docs 2015: This year's festival presents a five-film retrospective of Carole Laganiere's work". Toronto Star, April 24, 2015.
  8. ^ Victoria Ahearn, "In brief: Inès among world premieres set for Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma". Playback, April 1, 2022.
  9. ^ Lindsay Gibb, "Hot docs (4/25-5/4/03)". Take One, Fall 2003.
  10. ^ "Cinémascope leads Jutras with nine". Playback, January 31, 2005.
  11. ^ "FCVQ : un film belge remporte les honneurs". Ici Radio-Canada, September 30, 2013.
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