Monique Fortier was one of the few women to make her way in the male world of the NFB in the 1950s. But make her way she did. Beginning as a secretary, she graduated to editing and in 1963 she became the first francophone woman to direct her own film, À l'heure de la décolonisation. Her NFB colleague Anne Claire Poirier would make her first film the same year. Fortier subsequently returned to editing, quietly labouring at the Steenbeck, shaping films that helped define Direct Cinema.
Denys Desjardins
Director
Directed by John Ford70%
Sidney70%
The Cheshire Murders65%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
McQueen74%
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button69%
Above Majestic73%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Public Speaking70%
Katy Perry: Part of Me71%
My Mom Jayne80%
Love, Marilyn66%
A Plastic Ocean75%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
The Class of ‘9271%
Being James Bond77%
Night Will Fall76%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me60%
180° South72%
