Pierre Patry

Pierre Patry
Born	(1933-11-02) November 2, 1933 Hull, Canada
Occupation(s)	Film director Film producer Screenwriter
Years active	1958 - 1968

Pierre Patry (born November 2, 1933 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.

Biography

Pierre Patry began his career in the theatre as an actor and a playwright and is a founding member of the Canadian Association of Amateur Theatre. He joined the NFB in 1957 as a writer on the Panoramique series. Patry was a major force in the beginning of the Quebec feature-film industry in the sixties. He directed three features, most notably Trouble fête (1964). He left the NFB in 1963 to co-found the film cooperative Coopératio. Unfortunately, the company shut down after five years because of systemic problems in the financing and distribution of feature films. Despite only working for a decade in the film industry he has left behind an outstanding body of work.

In 1981 he was a major player in the development of the French language educational television station Canal Savoir.

Filmography

As Director

Fiction

• Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine (Short film, 1962)
• Françoise (Short film, 1964) (Re-Released as part of the 1964 anthology film Trois Femmes)
• Il y eut un soir... il y eut un matin (Short film, 1964)
• Une femme pour les autres (1964)
• Trouble fête (1964)
• Caïn (1965)
• La corde au cou (1965)

Documentaries

• Eye Witness No. 99 (Documentary series Co-Directed with Hector Lemieux and Jacques Bobet, 1958) (Segment La roulotte)
• Germaine Guèvremont romancière (Short film, 1959)
• Les petites soeurs (Short film, 1959)
• Le chanoine Lionel Groulx, historien (Short film, 1960)
• Collèges contemporain (Short film, 1961)
• Croisements et profits (Short film Co-Directed with Clément Perron, 1961)
• Loisirs (Short film Co-Directed with Clément Perron, 1962)
• Petit discours de la méthode (Short film Co-Directed with Claude Jutra, 1963)
• 3 hommes au mille carré 1966 (Short film Co-Directed with Jacques Kasma, 1966)
• Shapp for Governor (Short film Co-Directed with Morten Parker, 1966)
• Infirmière de nuit (Short film, 1966)

As Writer

• Les petites soeurs (1959)
• Germaine Guèvremont, romancière (1959)
• Collège contemporain (1960)
• Le grand duc (1959–1963)
• Le chanoine Lionel Groulx, historien (1960)
• Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine (1962)
• Ti-Jean caribou (1963–1966)
• Trouble fête (1964)
• La corde au cou (1965)

As Producer

• Il y eut un soir... il y eut un matin (1964)
• Trouble fête (1964)
• La corde au cou (1964)
• Caïn (1965)
• Délivrez-nous du mal (1966)
• Poussière sur la ville (1968)
• Entre la mer et l'eau douce (1968)
• A Great Big Thing (1968)
• Les Colombes (1972)

External links

• Pierre Patry at IMDb