About Michel Brault
Michel Brault, OQ was a Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s. Brault was a pioneer of the hand-held camera aesthetic. Brault returned to Quebec and the NFB, but quit the Board in 1965 when Pierre Juneau, the director of French production, rejected his first fiction feature, Entre la mer et l'eau douce. He won Canadian Film Awards for lensing Mon oncle Antoine and The Time of the Hunt (Le Temps d’une chasse), and Genie Awards for his work on Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) and Threshold. Orders (Les Ordres) (1974), which he directed, shot and wrote, won for him the CFA for direction and he shared the best director award at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.
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