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Bertrand Marc
Marc Bertrand graduated in theatre from the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Québec in 1982. He began his career on the stage and acted in some 30 plays across the country, before joining the NFB. He became a producer in the Animation and Youth Studio in 1998, and in this capacity he has produced over 100 films, including such notable successes as the award winning series Science Please! (2001), and Noël Noël (2003) by Nicola Lemay, which won Gémeaux Awards for best animated series or film in 2002 and 2004 respectively; the 2004 Jutra award-winning Blue Like a Gunshot (2003) by Masoud Raouf; and Léon in Wintertime (2007) which won the Grand Prize in the Awards of Excellence given out by The Alliance for Children and Television in 2008.
Marc Bertrand also produced 24 idées/seconde (2006), a television series about animated film and its creators. His interest in new technology has led him to become involved in working on 3-D films. In 2008, he co-produced Facing Champlain, a Work in 3 Dimensions directed by Jean-François Pouliot in 2008, and Marc Bertrand is currently producing Les yeux noirs, a new 3-D film by Nicola Lemay. Among his other productions are such notable films as Retouches (2008) by the famous Swiss animator Georges Schwizgebel, Imprints (2004) by Jacques Drouin, The Trenches (2010) by Claude Cloutier, as well as Tower Bawher (2006), Drux Flux (2009) and Lipsett Diaries (2010) by Theodore Ushev. Bertrand has worked on over 100 productions, including the Studio GDS/NFB co-production Romance (2011), nominated for a Genie Award and Sunday (Dimanche) (2011) nominated for an Oscar.
Marc Bertrand is also one of the producers of Norman McLaren - The Master's Edition (2006), an award-winning DVD box set featuring digitally restored masterpieces by McLaren, a pioneer in the fusion of music and animation.
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