{{Short description|Canadian film director}} {{BLP sources|date=June 2019}} '''Richard Brouillette''' is a Canadian film producer, director, editor and programmer.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
== Biography == Starting as a film critic for the Montreal weekly, ''Voir'' (1989), he then worked for Québec’s top independent distribution company, Cinéma Libre (1989–1999), which has since folded. In 1993, he founded the artist-run centre Casa Obscura, a multidisciplinary exhibition space. Here, he still runs a weekly cine-club called Les projections libérantes, for which he is also the projectionist. He has produced and directed three feature-length documentary films and has directed two experimental short films. He has also produced several feature-length films, mostly documentaries.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
== Filmography == === as director, editor and scriptwriter === * 1995: ''Too Much is Enough'' (''Trop c'est assez'') * 1995: ''Carpe diem'' (segment of the featurelenght group film ''Un film de cinéastes'') * 2008: ''Encirclement - Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy'' (''L'Encerclement - La démocratie dans les rets du néolibéralisme'') * 2008: ''Adagio for a Biker'' (''Adagio pour un gars de bicycle'', by Pascale Ferland, as co-scriptwriter) * 2014: ''Prends garde à la douceur des choses'' (commissioned by Visions du réel) * 2015: ''Uncle Bernard: A Counter-Lesson in Economics (Oncle Bernard – L'anti-leçon d'économie)'' * 2017: ''The Dispossessed'' (''Les dépossédés'', by Mathieu Roy, as co-scriptwriter) * 2018: ''Dispossession'' (''Dépossession'', by Mathieu Roy, as co-scriptwriter)
=== as producer === * 1995: ''Too Much is Enough'' (''Trop c'est assez'') * 2005: ''Tree with Severed Branches'' (''L’Arbre aux branches coupées'', by Pascale Ferland, as executive producer) * 2006: ''Barbers - A Men's Story'' (''Barbiers – Une histoire d’hommes'', by Claude Demers, as executive producer) * 2007: ''Les désoeuvrés'', by René Bail, as executive producer * 2008: ''Adagio for a Biker'' (''Adagio pour un gars de bicycle'', by Pascale Ferland, as executive producer) * 2008: ''Encirclement - Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy'' (''L'Encerclement - La démocratie dans les rets du néolibéralisme'') * 2009: ''Ladies in Blue'' (''Les dames en bleu'', by Claude Demers, as executive producer) * 2009: ''Chantier'', by René Bail, as executive producer * 2015: ''Uncle Bernard: A Counter-Lesson in Economics (Oncle Bernard – L'anti-leçon d'économie)'' * 2016: ''Far Away Lands'' (''Les terres lointaines'', by Félix Lamarche, as advising producer/executive producer) * 2017: ''The Dispossessed'' (''Les dépossédés'', by Mathieu Roy, as executive producer) * 2017: ''The Hidden River'' (''La rivière cachée'', by Jean-François Lesage, as executive producer) * 2018: ''Dispossession'' (''Dépossession'', by Mathieu Roy, as executive producer) * 2018: ''Dark Suns'' (''Soleils noirs'', by Julien Elie, as executive producer) * 2020: ''Prayer for a Lost Mitten (Prière pour une mitaine perdue)'' (by Jean-François Lesage, as executive producer)
== Awards ==
* 1996: M. Joan Chalmers Award for best Canadian documentary * 2009: Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize (Grand Prize) (11th Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival) * 2009: Grand Prize (15th Visions du réel festival) * 2009: Audience Award for Best feature film (6th IndieLisboa festival) * 2009: Pierre and Yolande Perrault Award for best emerging documentary filmmaker (27th Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois) * 2009: La Vague Award for Best documentary film (ex aequo with Hommes à louer, by Rodrigue Jean) (23rd Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie * 2009: Special Jury Mention for the Amnesty International Award (6th IndieLisboa festival) * 2014: Award from Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for best artist of the year in Mauricie * 2015: La Vague Award for Best documentary film (29th Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie)
== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|3234345}} * [http://filmsdupasseur.com Les films du passeur]
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