Historic Profile

The Coop Vidéo de Montréal, founded in March, 1977, is a production centre for screenwriters, directors, producers and technicians. The works produced there are oeuvres d'auteur, independent film or video works, in all formats and genres.

From 1977 to 1986, the Coop produced short- and medium-length pieces shot in video. Then it produced its first feature-length theatrical drama, Tristesse modèle réduit by Robert Morin, shot in Betacam. This film won many awards.

Today, the Coop Vidéo has to its credit more than fifty productions that have won awards in numerous festivals in Québec and elsewhere - documentaries and dramas by such filmmakers as Robert Morin (Que Dieu bénisse l'Amérique, Petit Pow! Pow! Noël, Le Nèg', Quiconque meurt, meurt à douleur, Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur), Louis Bélanger (Gaz Bar Blues, Post Mortem), Bernard Émond (L'épreuve du feu, Le temps et le lieu), Catherine Martin (dans les villes, Mariages), André-Line Beauparlant (Panache, Le petit Jésus, Trois princesses pour Roland), Denis Chouinard (Délivrez-moi) and Richard Jutras (Pawn shop), all members of the Coop.

After thirty years in existence, the Coop Vidéo de Montréal is still driven by the values that have always made it a unique site of creativity: transparency, solidarity, active involvement and commitment, and coherence.