Maurice Bulbulian
Maurice Bulbulian was born in 1938. He played a key role in the development of the direct-cinema social documentary genre in Quebec. His first six documentaries were made for the Challenge for Change programme, and he is known for involving his subjects directly in the creative process, particularly on Little Burgundy (1969) – co-directed with Bonnie Sherr Klein – which remains an important work in the cinema of social action. With In Our Forests (1971), Richesse des autres (1973), Ameshkuatan - Les sorties du castor (1978), Our Land, Our Truth (1982) and The Nitinaht Chronicles (1997), Bulbulian has depicted many diverse people, from Quebec to Latin America, trying to retain or gain control of their lives.
Related to this realisator
Little Burgundy
Subscription access
When an old area of a city is demolished to make way for a new low-rental housing development, is there anything that the residents can do to protect their interests? This film, produced in 1968, airs such a situation in the Little Burgundy district of Montréal. It shows how citizens organized themselves into a committee that made effective representations to City Hall and influenced the housin...
Ameshkuatan - Les sorties du castor
Ameshkuatan - Les sorties du castor
Under the tent, men are gathered around a fire. Today, they trapped a beaver, as in the old days, using the old methods. As they skinned it, they remembered the legends handed down for generations and the adventures they experienced when they roamed the forest while respecting their own laws. It was then that they lived in the heart of Innu land, not so long ago...
Little Burgundy
Subscription access
When an old area of a city is demolished to make way for a new low-rental housing development, is there anything that the residents can do to protect their interests? This film, produced in 1968, airs such a situation in the Little Burgundy district of Montréal. It shows how citizens organized themselves into a committee that made effective representations to City Hall and influenced the housin...
Ameshkuatan - Les sorties du castor
Ameshkuatan - Les sorties du castor
Under the tent, men are gathered around a fire. Today, they trapped a beaver, as in the old days, using the old methods. As they skinned it, they remembered the legends handed down for generations and the adventures they experienced when they roamed the forest while respecting their own laws. It was then that they lived in the heart of Innu land, not so long ago...
