Canadian film editor
Lorraine Dufour (born 1950) is a Canadian film editor and producer. She has received Canadian Screen Award and Prix Iris nominations and wins for films like "Post Mortem", "The Negro", and "Bad Seeds", and she and her longtime collaborator Robert Morin are the co-founders of Coop Vidéo de Montréal.
Biography.
Lorraine Dufour was born in 1950 in Montreal. She, Robert Morin, and Jean-Pierre St-Louis were part of the trio behind the "documenteur", a subgenre "mixing the false fiction and mockumentary". She and Morin co-founded Coop Vidéo de Montréal in 1977, and the two also founded Morin-Dufour Vidéo Inc. In 1980, the two directed "Gus est encore dans l’armée", a short film about a Canadian Armed Forces soldier and his newfound attraction to another male soldier. In 1991, the two won the 1st Canada Council Bell Canada Award. she was also known to be the "guiding spirit of Coop Vidéo". Georges Privet called Dufour the Coop Vidéo de Montréal's "driving force" and said that "it is impossible to talk about [her longtime collaborator] Robert Morin without mentioning Lorraine Dufour".
She was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture at the 13th Genie Awards for "Requiem for a Handsome Bastard". She won the Jutra Award for Best Film and Jutra Award for Best Editing at the 2nd Jutra Awards and received a nomination for the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture at the 20th Genie Awards for "Post Mortem". She won the Jutra Award for Best Editing at the 5th Jutra Awards and was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Editing at the 23rd Genie Awards for "The Negro", She was nominated for the Jutra Award for Best Editing at the 6th Jutra Awards for "Gaz Bar Blues". She was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture and the Prix Iris Public Prize for Bad Seeds.
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