Anne Claire Poirier

Anne Claire Poirier
OC
Poirier in 2019
Born(1932-06-06)6 June 1932
Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
Died28 September 2026(2026-09-28) (aged 94)
Outremont, Quebec, Canada
OccupationsFilm producer
Film director
Screenwriter
Years active1963–1996

Anne Claire Poirier OC (6 June 1932 – 28 September 2026) was a Canadian film producer, director and screenwriter.

Life and career

Poirier was born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, on 6 June 1932. She was the only female filmmaker on the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s and 1970s. Her first film, the black and white surrealist fictional documentary De mère en fille (1968), critiques social codes of motherhood and investigates the psychological experience of pregnancy. The film had a significant influence on the nascent feminist movement in Canada. De mère en fille is the first feature film ever directed by a French-Canadian woman. Poirier's film Mourir à tue-tête competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Mourir à tue-tête, which deals with the subject of rape, remains Poirier's best known film. Her 1974 film Les Filles du Roi explores a history of masculinity in Quebec. In 1996, she directed the feature-length documentary Tu as crié Let Me Go to understand the events that led to the murder of her daughter.[citation needed]

Poirier died at her home in Outremont on 28 September 2026, at the age of 94.

Awards and honours

In 1988, she was awarded the Prix Albert-Tessier. Tu as crié Let Me Go received numerous awards including the Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary. In 2001, Poirier received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in film. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2003.

Filmography

Fiction

Documentaries

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jamie Casemore, "Pioneer filmmaker Anne Claire Poirier dies at 94". Playback, September 29, 2026.
  2. ↑ Kay Armatage; Kass Banning; Brenda Longfellow; Janine Marchessault (1999). Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema. University of Toronto Press. p. 8.
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  6. ↑ Canada, National Film Board of, They Called Us 'Les Filles du Roy', retrieved 1 August 2018
  7. ↑ "La cinéaste Anne Claire Poirier est décédée". Radio-Canada (in Canadian French). Radio-Canada.ca. 28 September 2026. Retrieved 28 September 2026.
  8. ↑ "IMDb - Genie Awards (1997)". IMDb.
  9. ↑ "Anne Claire Poirier biography- GGPAA".
  10. ↑ "Order of Canada: Anne Claire Poirier". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 13 March 2017.