Christian Larouche

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Christian Larouche is a Canadian film and television producer from Quebec.[1] He is most noted as producer of the film Louis Cyr (Louis Cyr: L'homme le plus fort du monde), which was the winner of the Jutra Award for Best Film at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014.[2]

He began his career in the 1970s as a driver for Cinépix, the production firm of John Dunning and André Link,[3] working his way into greater roles with the company until making his debut as a producer with The Ideal Man (L'Homme idéal) in 1996.[4]

In 2000 he launched his own company, Christal Films.[5] The company made an aggressive push into film distribution in 2007;[6] although its distribution arm put the company into bankruptcy by 2008,[5] the studio arm survived as a division of Entertainment One, with Larouche remaining president of the division.[7]

In addition to his Jutra Award win for Louis Cyr, he was producer of the Best Film nominees The Collector (Le collectionneur) at the 5th Jutra Awards in 2003[8] and The 3 L'il Pigs (Les 3 p'tits cochons) at the 10th Jutra Awards in 2008,[9] and of Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume), a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Picture at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.[10]

  1. ^ Frédéric Bouchard, "FCIAT : Christian Larouche, très occupé par ses nouveaux projets". Lien Multimédia, October 31, 2017.
  2. ^ Julianna Cummins (March 24, 2014). "'Strong' showing from Louis Cyr at 2014 Jutra Awards". Playback.
  3. ^ Matthew Hays, "The professionally ambidextrous Christian Larouche". Playback, November 26. 2007.
  4. ^ "Homme idéal, L’ – Film de George Mihalka". Films du Québec, January 11, 2009.
  5. ^ a b Etan Vlessing, "Christal in bankruptcy protection". Playback, May 16, 2008.
  6. ^ Brendan Kelly, "Christal bursts out of Quebec". Variety, May 18, 2007.
  7. ^ Marise Strauss, "Larouche launches another Christal". Playback, May 8, 2009.
  8. ^ Brendan Kelly, "‘Seraphin’ tops list at Jutra noms". Variety, January 28, 2003.
  9. ^ "Huard's p'tits cochons film dominates nominations for Quebec's Jutras". CBC News. February 7, 2008.
  10. ^ Barry Hertz, "2019 Canadian Screen Awards lean toward Quebec and the obscure, and thank goodness for that". The Globe and Mail, February 7, 2019.