# Richard Brouillette

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{{Short description|Canadian film director}}
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'''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](/source/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](/source/artist-run_centre) Casa Obscura, a multidisciplinary exhibition space.  Here, he still runs a weekly [cine-club](/source/Film_society) 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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Visions_du_r%C3%A9el))
* 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](/source/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](/source/Ren%C3%A9_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](/source/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](/source/Dark_Suns_(film))'' (''Soleils noirs'', by Julien Elie, as executive producer)
* 2020: ''[Prayer for a Lost Mitten](/source/Prayer_for_a_Lost_Mitten) (Prière pour une mitaine perdue)'' (by Jean-François Lesage, as executive producer)

== Awards ==

* 1996: M. Joan [Chalmers Award](/source/M._Joan_Chalmers_Awards_for_Arts_Administration%2C_Artistic_Direction_and_Documentary_Film_and_Video) for best Canadian documentary
* 2009: Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize (Grand Prize) (11th [Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival](/source/Yamagata_International_Documentary_Film_Festival))
* 2009: Grand Prize (15th [Visions du réel](/source/Visions_du_r%C3%A9el) festival)
* 2009: Audience Award for Best feature film (6th [IndieLisboa](/source/IndieLisboa) festival)
* 2009: Pierre and Yolande Perrault Award for best emerging documentary filmmaker (27th [Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois](/source/Les_Rendez-vous_du_cin%C3%A9ma_qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois))
* 2009: La Vague Award for Best documentary film (ex aequo with [Hommes à louer](/source/Hommes_%C3%A0_louer), by [Rodrigue Jean](/source/Rodrigue_Jean)) (23rd [Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie](/source/Festival_international_du_cin%C3%A9ma_francophone_en_Acadie)
* 2009: Special Jury Mention for the Amnesty International Award (6th [IndieLisboa](/source/IndieLisboa) festival)
* 2014: Award from [Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec](/source/Conseil_des_arts_et_des_lettres_du_Qu%C3%A9bec) for best artist of the year in [Mauricie](/source/Mauricie)
* 2015: La Vague Award for Best documentary film (29th [Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie](/source/Festival_international_du_cin%C3%A9ma_francophone_en_Acadie))

== External links ==

* {{IMDb name|3234345}}
* [http://filmsdupasseur.com Les films du passeur]

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