Christian Mathieu Fournier
After studying cinema at Laval university, Christian’s cinematographic experience with documentaries began in 2002 with Mourir au large, a film that tells of the concerns of groundfish fishermen in Gaspésie and Maudite machine! a human portrait on the universe of gamblers addicted to video poker lottery. In 2004, his film Make money, salut bonsoir! on workers suffering from berylliosis at the Noranda mine won him the Public’s Award and the Enviro Award at the Festival de films de Portneuf sur l’environnement. He continued by directing LÉANDRE BERGERON, AVEC CONVICTION SANS ESPOIR (2008), and, in 2012, L’ANGE DES GRONDINES (Public’s Award at the Festival des films de Portneuf sur l’environnement). In 2015, NALLUA, feature-length documentary on two Inuit women who return to the scene of a tragedy that decimated their loved ones in 1943, earned him the Special Mention from the jury at the Babel Film Festival, in Italy, and the Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the Festival International de cinéma et d’art de Percé. Since then, the movie has been noticed in over 12 national and international festivals.
Christian Mathieu Fournier is currently Co-Director of LA MAISON DES SYRIENS with Nadine Beaudet (WIFF – 2018 WINNER : Best International Film – Refugees & Migrants & Public’s Award at the FFPE). He is also Director of photography for the movies of Nadine Beaudet (Yolande Simard, The girl from the crater) and Lucie Lambert (Le grand châle d’Aamu).
