Richard Brouillette
Richard Brouillette is a producer, director, editor and programmer from Quebec. Starting out as a critic for the weekly magazine Voir, he then worked for the independent distribution company Cinéma Libre (1989-1999). In 1993, he founded the self-managed contemporary arts centre La Casa Obscura in Montreal, where he has since been organizing a weekly film club. He produced and directed Too Much Is Enough (1995); Carpe diem (1995), Encirclement – Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy (2008), Prends garde à la douceur des choses (2014) and Uncle Bernard: A Counter-Lesson in Economics (2015). He also took part in the collective film St-Henri, the 26th of August (2011) and has produced eight feature films, seven of them documentaries. Brouillette is still very involved in the world of independent cinema, and has been on the board of directors of several organizations as well as working as a consulting producer on numerous documentaries.
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Too Much is Enough
_Too Much Is Enough_ showcases filmmaker Gilles Groulx (1931-1994), known as "the restless lynx.” One of Quebec's most influential and original filmmakers, he was certainly the most politicized and censored. In 1981, a car accident caused a head injury that isolated him from his peers. Groulx was soon forgotten from cinema landscape. From 1989 to 1994, Richard Brouillette spoke regularly with G...
Oncle Bernard - A Counter-Lesson in Economics
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Encirclement: Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy
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Too Much is Enough
_Too Much Is Enough_ showcases filmmaker Gilles Groulx (1931-1994), known as "the restless lynx.” One of Quebec's most influential and original filmmakers, he was certainly the most politicized and censored. In 1981, a car accident caused a head injury that isolated him from his peers. Groulx was soon forgotten from cinema landscape. From 1989 to 1994, Richard Brouillette spoke regularly with G...
Oncle Bernard - A Counter-Lesson in Economics
Oncle Bernard - A Counter-Lesson in Economics
Economist Bernard Maris, a.k.a. “Oncle Bernard”, was killed during the Charlie Hebdo shooting, on January 7, 2015. This fascinating interview with him was filmed in March 2000 as part of the documentary *Encirclement—Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy*. Frank and unvarnished, this is a true “counter lesson in economics” in which the director gives centre stage to Maris’ vibrant, incisive, and mi...
Encirclement: Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy
Encirclement: Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy
À travers les réflexions et les analyses de plusieurs intellectuels de renom, ce film-essai trace le portrait de l’idéologie néolibérale et examine les différents mécanismes mis en œuvre pour en imposer mondialement les diktats. Avec Noam Chomsky, Ignacio Ramonet, Normand Baillargeon, Susan George, Omar Aktouf, Oncle Bernard, Michel Chossudovsky, François Denord, François Brune, Martin Masse,...
