Denys Desjardins

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Denys Desjardins (born 1966 in Montreal, Quebec), is a film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and teacher for more than fifteen years. After completing studies in literature, film and communications, he directed several acclaimed films.

He received the Quebec Film Critic award for best short film two years in a row for La dame aux poupées (Centaure Films, 1996) and also for Contre le temps et l'effacement (Centaure Films, 1997) a portrait of Boris Lehman the Belgian filmmaker for whom life is a reason to make films, and making films is a reason for living. Then he joined the National Film Board of Canada, where he directed Almanach 1999-2000 (NFB, 1999) and My Eye for a Camera (NFB, 2001) – nominated for a Jutra Award for best documentary in 2003 – as well as Being Human (NFB, 2005) and Rebel with a Camera (NFB, 2006), which won him the Quebec Film Critic award for best medium-length documentary.

He has also produced and co-directed the short films Me, Bob Robert (Centaure Films, 2003) and Peter and the Penny (Centaure Films, 2006); the latter received the award for best short fiction film at the 2006 Festival Images en vue. Nominated for a Jutra Award for best documentary in 2008, The Great Resistance (NFB, 2008) is Desjardins’ third feature-length film.

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[edit] Selected films

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