Gilles Gascon
Gilles Gascon was a Canadian cinematographer and documentary filmmaker. He was most noted for his work on Jacques Giraldeau's 1966 documentary film Element 3 (Élément 3), for which he won the Canadian Film Award for Best Colour Cinematography at the 19th Canadian Film Awards in 1967.[1]
His other cinematography credits included the films In the Labyrinth,[2] It Isn't Jacques Cartier's Fault (C'est pas la faute à Jacques Cartier) and YUL 871.
As a documentarian he directed the films Québec en silence (1969), If at First (1969), Peut-être Maurice Richard (1971),[3] C'est pas chinois (1974), Mercredi - Petits souliers, petit pain (1977) and Firearms and Safety (1979).
He was the brother of actors Jean Gascon and Gabriel Gascon.
References
[edit]- ^ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. pp. 77-79.
- ^ "Labyrinth". Canadian Film Encyclopedia.
- ^ Martin Knelman, "Quebec's making Film Awards more national". The Globe and Mail, October 9, 1972.
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