Richard Jutras

After studying film, Richard Jutras debuted at Vidéographe as a director, as well as a musician and soundtrack designer. Since then, he has worked actively as a director, screenwriter and editor. He has made eight short productions in five years. His most recent is Rendez-vous dans l'inachevé, a 28-minute film with no dialogue, where the action unfolds over the backdrop of war.

Several of his productions, like Biscuit soda (1984), Kid Kodak (1992), Musiques pour un siècle sourd (1999), Pawn Shop (2001), Flagrant délit (2001), Hit and Run (2002) and Nul si découvert (2004), have merited awards and special mentions, or were presented at festivals here and abroad. Hit and Run won the 2003 Jutra for best short, and the 2002 Bayard D'or for best short at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur in Belgium. It also stood among the finalists at the Genies that year and was in international competition at the Festival internazionale del film in Locarno, Switzerland, the Festival International du Court Métrage in Clermont-Ferrand, France, as well as in more than a dozen other festivals around the world. Hit and Run enjoyed a special presentation for the international press at the Prix Lumières gala in Paris. It was also included at the Festival des scénaristes de La Ciotat and the opening night festivities of the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto.

Jutras's medium-length documentary, Musiques pour un siècle sourd, won the 2000 Rogers Communications Media Award for Coverage of the Arts, the 1999 Prix Opus for media event of the year, given by the Conseil québécois de la musique; four Gémeau nominations in 1999, most notably for best documentary production. And, in March, 1998, it was in official selection at the 16th Festival International du Film sur l'Art in Montréal.

Kid Kodak, a medium-length drama, won special jury mention at the Festival International du Nouveau Cinéma et de la Vidéo in 1992; the Golden Sheaf Award for best drama and for best editing, all categories, at the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival in 1993.

Among Jutras's works in progress are Turbulences magnétiques, a feature-length documentary on the world of contemporary music, and La belle empoisonneuse, a dramatic feature, currently in editing, due for release in the fall of 2007.

2007

La belle empoisonneuse
Feature-Length Drama, 35mm, Thalie

Rendez-vous dans l'inachevé
Dramatic Short, video to 35mm, Uberdo Films

2004

Nul si découvert
Dramatic Short, video, Les Ateliers Vidéofilm

2002

Hit and run
Dramatic Short, 35mm, Christal Films

2001

Flagrant délit
Dramatic Short, video, Les Productions Prise XIII / Les Production du Regard

Pawn shop
Dramatic Short, video to 35mm, Coop Vidéo / Les Ateliers Vidéofilm

Opération Cobra
Feature-Length Docu-Drama, video, co-directors: Robert Morin, Sylvain Lespérance, Dominic Gagnon Cinémaginaire

Les conteurs de vues animées
Medium-Length Docu-Drama, video, Les Productions de la Chasse Galerie

1999-00

Écho des territoires
Medium-Length Documentary, video, Les Productions du Regard

1998

Musiques pour un siècle sourd
Medium-Length Documentary, video, Synercom Téléproductions / Arts et Images

1995

Mémoire d'une délinquance
Documentary Short, video, Idéacom

1992-95

Omniscience
30 episodes x 30 minutes, video, Groupe Coscient

1992

Kid Kodak
Medium-Length Drama, video and 16mm, Productions les 400 Coups / Coop Vidéo

1989

Acceptez-vous les frais ? Entretien avec Robert Morin. (Do you Accept the Charges)
Medium-Length Documentary, video, Productions les 400 coups / Coop Vidéo

1984

Biscuit soda
Medium-Length Drama, video, Vidéographe

1980

Nous sommes tous prisonniers politiques
Medium-Length Documentary, video, Vidéographe