Léonard Forest

Canadian filmmaker and writer (1928–2024)

Léonard Forest
Forest in 2009
Born	(1928-01-17)January 17, 1928 Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	March 19, 2024(2024-03-19) (aged 96)
Occupation(s)	Author, film director, scriptwriter, film producer
Years active	1953–2004

Léonard Forest (January 17, 1928 – March 19, 2024) was an American-born Canadian filmmaker, poet and essayist.

Life and career

Léonard Forest was born in Massachusetts, United States, and grew up in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Forest worked at the National Film Board from 1953 to 1980 and was involved in about 130 films, either as director, producer or script-writer.^[1]

Forest died on March 19, 2024, at the age of 96.^[2]

Filmography

As director

The Charwoman (La femme de ménage) – 1954
The Dikes (Les aboiteaux) – 1955, co-directed with Roger Blais
Fishermen of Pubnico (Pêcheurs de Pomcoup) – 1956
Le monde des femmes – 1956
Haiti (Amitiés haïtiennes) – 1957
The Whole World Over – 1957
Bonjou' soleil – 1957
In Search of Innocence (À la recherche de l'innocence) – 1964
Walls of Memory (Mémoire en fête) – 1964
Les Acadiens de la dispersion – 1968
Acadie libre – 1969
Out of Silence – 1970
La noce est pas finie – 1971
A Sun Like Nowhere Else (Un soleil pas comme ailleurs) – 1972
Far from Away: The Arts in St. John's (Saint-Jean-sur-ailleurs) – 1980
Portrait: Gerald Squires of Newfoundland – 1980^[3]

As script writer

Les aboiteaux (1955)
Les midinettes (1955)
Pêcheurs de Pomcoup (1956)
La vie est courte (1956)
Amitiés haïtiennes (1957)
Bonjou' soleil (1957)
L'héritage (1960)
À la recherche de l'innocence (1964)
Mémoire en fête (1964)
Les Acadiens de la dispersion (1968)
Un soleil pas comme ailleurs (1972)
Saint-Jean-sur-ailleurs (1980)
Portrait: Gerald Squires of Newfoundland (1980)

As producer

Panoramique six films made for television (1957–1958)

including:

The Promised Land (Les Brûlés)
Le maître du Pérou
Il était une guerre
Les mains nettes
Les 90 jours

Le monde du travail five films (1957–1958)
L'Urbanisme (1957–1958)
La drave(1957–1958)
Series «Profils et Paysages» (1958–1959)

including:

Germaine Guèvremont, romancière
John Lyman, peintre
Félix Leclerc, troubadour
Charles Forest, curé-fondateur
Fred Barry, comédien
Henri Gagnon, organiste
Marius Barbeau, anthropologue
Pierre Beaulieu, agriculteur
Lionel Groulx, historien I
Lionel Groulx, historien II
Les Petites Sœurs, religieuses cloîtrées
Georges Vanier, soldat, diplomate et gouverneur-général
Édouard Simard, industriel I
Édouard Simard, industriel II
St-Denys Garneau, poète
Wilfred Pelletier, musicien
Alfred Desrochers, poète
Cyrias Ouellet, homme de science

La canne à pêche (1959)
Normétal (1959)
L'immigré (1959)
La canne à pêche (1959)
Au bout de ma rue (1960)
L'héritage (1960)
La misère des autres (1960)

Published works

Saisons antérieures poetry (1973) at Éditions d'Acadie
Comme en Florence poetry (1980) was awarded the prix France-Acadie
La jointure du temps essays (1998) at Éditions Perce-Neige, was awarded the Prix Champlain 1999
Le pommier d'août poetry (2001) at Éditions Perce-Neige
Les trois pianos children's book (2003) at Éditions Bouton d'or Acadie
Ni queue ni tête children's book (2004) at Éditions Bouton d'or Acadie

Bibliography

Josette Déléas, Léonard Forest ou le ragard pionnier, Centre d'études acadiennes, Moncton, 1998

References

^ Brideau, Roland. "Acadia, Culture of: Cinema". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on August 17, 2005. Retrieved 25 September 2010.
^ Le cinéaste acadien Léonard Forest s’est éteint à l’âge de 96 ans (in French)
^ "Film Collection:Léonard Forest". National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 25 September 2010.

External Links

Léonard Forest at IMDb
Léonard Forest discography at Discogs

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