Marcel Jean(I)
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
A film and litterature graduate of Montreal University, Marcel Jean is
the author of several books on Quebec cinema (Le dictionnaire du cinéma
québécois, avec Michel Coulombe, éditions Boréal, 1988 ; Le cinema
québécois, éditions Boréal, 1991) and animated films (Le langage des
lignes, éditions Les 400 coups, 1995; Quand le cinema d'animation
rencontre le vivant, editions Les 400 coups, 2006). From 1984 to 1989
he was film critic at the Montreal daily Le Devoir. In 2007 some of his
film critics were published in a book (Tout est mise en scène, editions
Les 400 coups). He was curator of animation at the Cinematheque
québécoise from 1996 to 1998 and in 1999 he became head of the
animation studio for French program at the National Film Board of
Canada. While working there he produced or coproduced several
internationally awarded films, including Black Soul (Martine Chartrand,
2001), Aria (Pjotr Sapegin, 2001), Accordion (Michèle Cournoyer, 2004)
and Sleeping Betty (Claude Cloutier, 2007). Marcel Jean has left the
NFB in 2005. He has taught history and aestetics of film at the
University of Montreal since 1986. He has also directed two fiction
shorts (Le rendez-vous perprétuel, 1989; Vacheries, 1990) and three
documentaries (among them, État critique, 1992). He wrote the script of
Dehors novembre (Patrick Bouchard, 2005) and Les visages de Champlain
(Jean-François Pouliot, 2008). Since 2005 he was invited programmer for
different festivals: Festival du film d'animation d'Annecy 2005 and
2006 (France), 25FPS, International festival of experimental films and
videos in Zagreb 2007 (Croatia), Ottawa International Animation
Festival 2007 (Canada), Siena Short Film Festival 2008 (Italy),
Rencontres internationales du cinéma d'animation de Wissembourg 2009
(France). Since 1986, Marcel Jean was a jury member in 27 national or
international festivals or events.