Yvan Patry
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Yvan Patry was a Québécois documentary filmmaker.
Yvan was born in Iroquois Falls, Ontario
.
During the 1970s he worked as a professor at Montmorency College in Laval, Quebec
, where he produced several educational films.
Yvan's short film Octobre 68 was included in the SRC's public television series "Les temps changent". The NFB produced his first feature Ainsi soient-ils - a fiction film centered on Quebec youth and the new cultural mentality that came about after 1968. In 1974 Yvan Patry teamed with Bernard Lalond, Roger Frappier, Guy Bergeron, and André Gagnon to direct On a raison de se révolter, a film on workers’ conflicts that was intended to politicize Quebec workers.
Throughout the 1980s Yvan made several trips to Nicaragua
. He co-directed (with Daniel Lacourse) Nicaragua/Honduras: Entre deux guerres (1983), followed by Nicaragua: La guerre sale (1985); two significant documentaries on the war fought by the Contras
against the population of Nicaragua
. Yvan Patry and Daniel Lacourse continued to film together in regions of conflict through the 1980s and 1990s until Yvan's death in 1999. Their most notable works include The Rwandan Series, a 5-part in-depth look at the central African country. Hand of God, Hand of the Devil; Sitting on a Volcano; and Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold recount the horrifying crimes that took place before, during, and after the Rwandan Genocide
.
Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold won the Hot Docs
"Best of Festival" award in 1998.
Yvan was also the founder of Alter Ciné, an organization of filmmakers and international journalists in cooperation with Third World
organizations.
Yvan was born in Iroquois Falls, Ontario
Iroquois Falls, Ontario
Iroquois Falls is a small town in Northern Ontario, Canada, with a population of 4,729 in the Canada 2006 Census.The town centre lies just off of Hwy 11 on the banks the Abitibi River, west of Lake Abitibi. Timmins, one of the largest cities in northern Ontario is approximately to the west...
.
During the 1970s he worked as a professor at Montmorency College in Laval, Quebec
Laval, Quebec
Laval is a Canadian city and a region in southwestern Quebec. It is the largest suburb of Montreal, the third largest municipality in the province of Quebec, and the 14th largest city in Canada with a population of 368,709 in 2006...
, where he produced several educational films.
Yvan's short film Octobre 68 was included in the SRC's public television series "Les temps changent". The NFB produced his first feature Ainsi soient-ils - a fiction film centered on Quebec youth and the new cultural mentality that came about after 1968. In 1974 Yvan Patry teamed with Bernard Lalond, Roger Frappier, Guy Bergeron, and André Gagnon to direct On a raison de se révolter, a film on workers’ conflicts that was intended to politicize Quebec workers.
Throughout the 1980s Yvan made several trips to Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...
. He co-directed (with Daniel Lacourse) Nicaragua/Honduras: Entre deux guerres (1983), followed by Nicaragua: La guerre sale (1985); two significant documentaries on the war fought by the Contras
Contras
The contras is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing Nicaragua's FSLN Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government following the July 1979 overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle's dictatorship...
against the population of Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...
. Yvan Patry and Daniel Lacourse continued to film together in regions of conflict through the 1980s and 1990s until Yvan's death in 1999. Their most notable works include The Rwandan Series, a 5-part in-depth look at the central African country. Hand of God, Hand of the Devil; Sitting on a Volcano; and Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold recount the horrifying crimes that took place before, during, and after the Rwandan Genocide
Rwandan Genocide
The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people in the small East African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days through mid-July, over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate...
.
Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold won the Hot Docs
Hot Docs
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America's largest documentary film festival, conference, and market, held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
"Best of Festival" award in 1998.
Yvan was also the founder of Alter Ciné, an organization of filmmakers and international journalists in cooperation with Third World
Third World
The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either capitalism and NATO , or communism and the Soviet Union...
organizations.
Films as Director
- (1968) Octobre 68 (TV, short)
- (1969) Ainsi soient-ils
- (1974) On a raison de se révolter
- (1983) Nicaragua/Honduras: Entre deux guerres (co-dir.)
- (1985) Nicaragua: La guerre sale (co-dir.)
- (1986) The Forgotten War
- (1986) Songs of the Next Harvest
- (1986) A Time to Heal
- (1990) Nuit et Silence (TV, co-dir.)
- (1994) Denial
- (1994) L’histoire muselée (TV, co-dir.)
- (1995) Hand of God, Hand of the Devil (TV, co-dir.)
- (1996) We Were Cowards, aka Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold, Part 1 (co-dir.)
- (1996) We Feel Betrayed, aka Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold, Part 2 (co-dir.)
- (1996) Blood was Flowing Like a River, aka Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold, Part 3 (co-dir.)
External links
- Yvan Patry at the Internet Movie Database