Jean-Claude Labrecque
Directing
🎂 1938-06-19
Jean-Claude Labrecque, CM CQ (June 19, 1938 – May 31, 2019) was a director and cinematographer who learned the basics of filmmaking at the National Film Board of Canada. Jean-Claude Labrecque was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and trained as a camera assistant at the NFB. As a cinematographer, he shot many of the early key films of Claude Jutra (À tout prendre), Michel Brault (Entre la mer et l’eau douce), Gilles Carle (La vie heureuse de Léopold Z), Gilles Groulx (Le Chat dans le sac) and Don Owen (Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail, The Ernie Game). He turned to directing in 1965 with 60 Cycles, about a long-distance bike race on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River, which has been described as a virtual encyclopedia of camera techniques. It won 22 international awards and was nominated for a BAFTA. He left the NFB in 1967 to set-up his own production company, although he continued to freelance with the Board.
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Director of Photography
1971
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1967
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1965
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1963
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1966
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2007
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1973
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1965
Director of Photography
1968
Director of Photography
2001
Director of Photography
1973
Director of Photography
1968
Second Unit Director of Photography
1991
Director of Photography
2005
Director of Photography
1967
Director of Photography
1965
Camera Operator
1976
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1964
Director of Photography
1967
Director of Photography
1968
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1964
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1974
Director of Photography
1971
Director of Photography
1964
Camera Operator
1990
Director of Photography
1964
Director of Photography
1964
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Director of Photography
1965
Director of Photography
1963
Director of Photography
1971
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1970
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1969
Director of Photography
1963
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