Claude Jutra (French pronunciation: ​[klod Ê'ytÊ a]; March 11, 1930
â€" November 5, 1986) was a Canadian actor, film director, and
screenwriter.The Prix Jutra, and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and
Television's Claude Jutra Award, were named in his honour because of
his importance in Quebec cinema history. The awards were renamed in
2016 following the publication of allegations that he had sexually
abused children during his lifetime as were streets named for
him.Jutra was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec as Claude Jutras.
His father, Albert Jutras, was a radiologist and a director of the
Collège des médecins du Québec. He made the short films Dément du
lac Jean-Jeunes and Perpetual Movement (Mouvement perpétuel) before
graduating from the Université de Montréal with a degree in
medicine, but turned to filmmaking instead of medical practice after
completing his degree. He studied theatre in Montréal (1952â€"53) and
wrote his first original Quebec television play (L'Ecole de la peur)
in 1953, and a television series, Images en boite, in 1954.He went to
work at the National Film Board of Canada in 1956 where he trained in
all facets of filmmaking, although his first film for the NFB,
Trio-Brio, was permanently lost when the organization moved its head
office from Ottawa to Montreal. As a filmmaker, he dropped the s from
his surname, a common Québécois surname, because the Jutra spelling
was more distinctive. In 1958 he went to France and Africa to work
with noted French filmmaker, Jean Rouch.
â€" November 5, 1986) was a Canadian actor, film director, and
screenwriter.The Prix Jutra, and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and
Television's Claude Jutra Award, were named in his honour because of
his importance in Quebec cinema history. The awards were renamed in
2016 following the publication of allegations that he had sexually
abused children during his lifetime as were streets named for
him.Jutra was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec as Claude Jutras.
His father, Albert Jutras, was a radiologist and a director of the
Collège des médecins du Québec. He made the short films Dément du
lac Jean-Jeunes and Perpetual Movement (Mouvement perpétuel) before
graduating from the Université de Montréal with a degree in
medicine, but turned to filmmaking instead of medical practice after
completing his degree. He studied theatre in Montréal (1952â€"53) and
wrote his first original Quebec television play (L'Ecole de la peur)
in 1953, and a television series, Images en boite, in 1954.He went to
work at the National Film Board of Canada in 1956 where he trained in
all facets of filmmaking, although his first film for the NFB,
Trio-Brio, was permanently lost when the organization moved its head
office from Ottawa to Montreal. As a filmmaker, he dropped the s from
his surname, a common Québécois surname, because the Jutra spelling
was more distinctive. In 1958 he went to France and Africa to work
with noted French filmmaker, Jean Rouch.
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