René Jodoin (30 December 1920 â€" 22 January 2015) was an animation
director and producer who founded the French-language animation studio
of the National Film Board of Canada. Born in Hull, Quebec on December
30, 1920, Jodoin died in Montreal on January 22, 2015 at the age of
94.Jodoin was invited by animation pioneer Norman McLaren to join the
NFB in 1943. He worked in the NFB's original animation unit, then left
the NFB in 1947. He returned to the Film Board in 1954, working in a
variety of capacities, including as head of an NFB animation program
producing films for the Department of National Defence and as head of
NFB's Science Film Program.In 1966, he founded the French Animation
Studio. He produced two Academy Award-nominated animated shorts during
his tenure: Hunger, by Peter Foldes and Monsieur Pointu, by André
Leduc and Bernard Longpré, as well as Balablok by Břetislav Pojar,
winner of the Grand Prix du Festival for Short Film at the Cannes Film
Festival, and The Bronswik Affair by Leduc and Robert Awad.Jodoin's
directorial credits include two short films with McLaren: Alouette and
Spheres, an abstract film set to the music of Bach as performed by
Glenn Gould. He was also sole director on a cycle of geometrical
animated shorts: Dance Squared, Notes on a Triangle, Rectangle &
Rectangles and A Matter of Form.
director and producer who founded the French-language animation studio
of the National Film Board of Canada. Born in Hull, Quebec on December
30, 1920, Jodoin died in Montreal on January 22, 2015 at the age of
94.Jodoin was invited by animation pioneer Norman McLaren to join the
NFB in 1943. He worked in the NFB's original animation unit, then left
the NFB in 1947. He returned to the Film Board in 1954, working in a
variety of capacities, including as head of an NFB animation program
producing films for the Department of National Defence and as head of
NFB's Science Film Program.In 1966, he founded the French Animation
Studio. He produced two Academy Award-nominated animated shorts during
his tenure: Hunger, by Peter Foldes and Monsieur Pointu, by André
Leduc and Bernard Longpré, as well as Balablok by Břetislav Pojar,
winner of the Grand Prix du Festival for Short Film at the Cannes Film
Festival, and The Bronswik Affair by Leduc and Robert Awad.Jodoin's
directorial credits include two short films with McLaren: Alouette and
Spheres, an abstract film set to the music of Bach as performed by
Glenn Gould. He was also sole director on a cycle of geometrical
animated shorts: Dance Squared, Notes on a Triangle, Rectangle &
Rectangles and A Matter of Form.
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