Luc Renaud
Born in Hull, Luc Renaud works and lives in Quebec City. After studying geography (Université de Sherbrooke, 1997) and oceanography (Université du Québec à Rimouski, 2000), he made a number of trips abroad, combining cultural experiences with social fieldwork in Africa and Latin America. He also spent 15 months with the Matimekush-Lac-John Innus in subarctic Quebec, a journey that sparked the idea for his documentary A Tent on Mars (2008), co-directed with Martin Bureau.
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A Tent on Mars
Thirty years after the closure of the Schefferville mining colony, the Innu, after having taken possession of the town abandoned by the non-Natives, are facing a new challenge: the reopening of the iron mines. Territory, identity and legitimacy feed the dialogue between two peoples, Quebecers and First Nations, who share a common struggle. Two identities that claim to be colonized, the former b...
A Tent on Mars
Thirty years after the closure of the Schefferville mining colony, the Innu, after having taken possession of the town abandoned by the non-Natives, are facing a new challenge: the reopening of the iron mines. Territory, identity and legitimacy feed the dialogue between two peoples, Quebecers and First Nations, who share a common struggle. Two identities that claim to be colonized, the former b...
