title: Pierre Patry
text: # Pierre Patry
  
  Pierre Patry (November 2, 1933 – June 7, 2014) was a Canadian film director and screenwriter.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Born in Hull, Quebec, Patry began his career in the theatre as an actor and a playwright. He was a founding member of the Canadian Association of Amateur Theatre. He joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1957 as a writer on the Panoramique series. Patry was a major force in the beginning of the Quebec feature-film industry in the sixties. He directed three features, most notably Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête) in 1964.
  
  He left the NFB in 1963 to co-found the film cooperative Coopératio with Roger Blais and Jean-Claude Lord. Unfortunately, the company shut down after five years because of systemic problems in the financing and distribution of feature films.
  
  In 1981 he was a major player in the development of the French language educational television station Canal Savoir.
  
  Patri died on June 7, 2014.
  
  ## Filmography
  
  ### As director
  
  **Fiction**
  
  * Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine - 1962, short
  * Françoise (Il y eut un soir... il y eut un matin) - 1964, short (re-released as part of the 1964 anthology film Trois Femmes)
  * Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête) - 1964
  * Caïn (Les Marcheurs de la nuit) - 1965
  * Rope Around the Neck (La corde au cou) - 1965
  
  **Documentaries**
  
  * Eye Witness No. 99 (Documentary series Co-Directed with Hector Lemieux and Jacques Bobet, 1958) (Segment La roulotte)
  * Germaine Guèvremont romancière (Short film, 1959)
  * Les petites soeurs (Short film, 1959)
  * Le chanoine Lionel Groulx, historien (Short film, 1960)
  * Collèges contemporain (Short film, 1961)
  * Croisements et profits (Short film Co-Directed with Clément Perron, 1961)
  * Loisirs (Short film Co-Directed with Clément Perron, 1962)
  * Petit discours de la méthode (Short film Co-Directed with Claude Jutra, 1963)
  * Ghosts of a River (Trois hommes au mille carré) 1966 (Short film Co-Directed with Jacques Kasma, 1966)
  * Shapp for Governor (Short film Co-Directed with Morten Parker, 1966)
  * Infirmière de nuit (Short film, 1966)
  
  ### As writer
  
  * The Little Sisters (Les petites soeurs) - 1959
  * Germaine Guèvremont, romancière - 1959
  * Collège contemporain - 1960
  * Le grand duc - 1959–1963
  * Le chanoine Lionel Groulx, historien - 1960
  * Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine - 1962
  * Ti-Jean caribou - 1963–1966
  * Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête) - 1964
  * Rope Around the Neck (La corde au cou) - 1965
  
  ### As producer
  
  * Françoise (Il y eut un soir... il y eut un matin) - 1964
  * Trouble-Maker (Trouble fête) - 1964
  * Rope Around the Neck (La corde au cou) - 1964
  * Caïn (Les Marcheurs du matin) - 1965
  * Deliver Us from Evil (Délivrez-nous du mal) (1966)
  * Dust from Underground (Poussière sur la ville) - 1968
  * Between Salt and Sweet Water (Entre la mer et l'eau douce) - 1968
  * A Great Big Thing - 1968
  * The Doves (Les Colombes) - 1972
  