Raymonde Provencher

Raymonde Provencher is a Canadian documentary filmmaker,[1] most noted for her films War Babies (War Babies, nés de la haine)[2] and Grace, Milly, Lucy...Child Soldiers (Grace, Milly, Lucy ... Des fillettes soldates).[3]

Formerly a television journalist associated most prominently with Télé-Québec's documentary series Nord-Sud, she cofounded the Macumba Films documentary studio with Robert Cornellier and Patricio Henríquez in 1995.[4] In addition to her own work as a director, she is often credited as a producer on films directed by Cornellier or Henríquez.

War Babies was the winner of the Hot Docs Audience Award at the 2003 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,[5] and won four Gémeaux Awards in 2003.[6]

A retrospective program of Provencher's films War Babies, Grace, Milly, Lucy, Crimes Without Honour and Café Désirs was scheduled to take place at Hot Docs in 2020.[7] When the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the retrospective was postponed instead of taking place as part of the online program,[8] and instead was staged at the 2022 festival.[9]

  1. ^ Luc Perreault, "Raymonde Provencher: haro sur un crime de guerre". La Presse, December 7, 2002.
  2. ^ Manon Dumais, "War Babies / Raymonde Provencher : Mère courage". Voir, December 5, 2002.
  3. ^ T'Cha Dunlevy, "How girls become 'killing machines'". Montreal Gazette, February 11, 2011.
  4. ^ Odile Tremblay, "Histoire d'horreurs". Le Devoir, December 7, 2002.
  5. ^ "Hot Docs festival hands out 12 awards". The Globe and Mail, May 6, 2003.
  6. ^ Gaetan Charlebois, "A prize gala weekend". Montreal Gazette, November 24, 2003.
  7. ^ Frederick Blichert, "Hot Docs to Focus On the work of Raymonde Provencher". Playback, January 21, 2020.
  8. ^ Victoria Ahearn, "Hot Docs festival to launch online version with more than 135 films". Canadian Press, May 5, 2020.
  9. ^ Judy Wolfe, "Raymonde Provencher Tells Stories that Need to Be Told". Point of View, April 21, 2022.