Yvan Patry

Yvan Patry
Yvan Patry
Born	1948; Iroquois Falls, Ontario, CA.
Occupation	Director/Producer

Yvan Patry (1948–1999) was a Canadian 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.

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.)

gollark: - To reduce bias in government decision making we will use a random number generator for all major policy problems.

gollark: - To ensure our ancestors' traditions are respected, we should randomly dig them up and drag them to voting booths.

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gollark: - As eating meat places suffering on millions of innocent animals, I believe animal meat should be replaced with human flesh from donors, as humans are able to meaningfully consent to this while animals are not (and don't get a choice in practice anyway).

gollark: - To increase the efficiency of the education system and encourage self-directed learning, I believe schools should lock children in individual cubicles with textbooks for 5 hours a day instead of using classrooms and teachers.

References

Rist, Peter. "Guide to the cinema(s) of Canada", Greenwood Press, 2001.

External links

Yvan Patry at the Internet Movie Database

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