Danic Champoux
Indelibly formed as a contestant on the popular TV show "La Course destination monde" where participants travelled to different regions of the world to make short 4-minute films in the late 1990s, Danic Champoux has since worked on multiple film and television projects. He directed his first short documentary in 2000: My Father, about his own father who had to uproot himself from his family in order to work at a construction site. The documentaries Caporal Mark (2006), La couleur du temps (2008), and Baklava Blues (2009) earned him several awards and critical acclaim. In 2011, he returned full force with Mom and me, an animated film about a child's fascination with the Hells Angels, and Sessions, a feature-length documentary shot in an oncology center. In June 2011, Danic Champoux was named filmmaker-in-residence at the NFB, where he directed Self(less) Portrait. Marked by the legacy of direct cinema, and in particular by the work of documentary filmmaker Pierre Perrault, he co-directed with Nadine Beaudet Daughter of the Crater (2019) and then directed CHSLD, Mon Amour in 2020. Danic Champoux died in the winter of 2022 at the age of 45.
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