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Legagneur Maryse
After studying communications at university and pursuing an intensive course of studies at INIS (Institut national de l'image et du son), Maryse Legagneur embarked on La Course destination monde 1998-1999. She soon attracted attention and earned some very prestigious awards, including the Camera d'Or, the public's choice award and the Telefilm Canada Award. On returning to Montreal, she directed a number of television reports, initially for the program Taxi pour l'Amérique (Télé-Québec and TV5, 1999) and then for Culture Shock/Culture-Choc (RDI, SRC and CBC, 2000-2001) and Bande à Part.TV (ARTV, 2001-2002). In 2002 she was director of the TV magazines Tout un été! and Tout un automne!, also for the culture channel ARTV.
2005 has been a particularly good year for Legagneur. Le facteur chance, a dramatic short that she co-directed with the collective Circonstanciel, won both first prize and the public's choice award at Film Blitz 2880. All now her first feature documentary and first film with the NFB: Au nom de la mère et du fils. A study of the immigrant experience in Quebec, it follows the daily lives of two young men of Haitian origin in the Montreal neighbourhood of Saint-Michel.
