Claude Jutra
| Claude Jutra | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Claude Jutras March 11, 1930 Montreal, Quebec |
| Died | November 5, 1986 (aged 56) Montreal, Quebec |
| Occupation |
Film director Screenwriter Actor |
| Years active | 1949–1985 |
Claude Jutra (French pronunciation: [klod ʒytʁa]; March 11, 1930 – November 5, 1986) was a French Canadian actor, film director and writer.
The Prix Jutra, and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Claude Jutra Award, were named in his honor because of his importance in Quebec cinema history. The awards were renamed in 2016 following the publication of allegations that he had sexually abused underage children during his lifetime, as were streets named for him.
Jutra was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec as Claude Jutras. His father, Albert Jutras, was a radiologist and a director of the Collège des médecins du Québec. He made the short films Dément du lac Jean-Jeunes and Mouvement perpétuel before graduating from the Université de Montréal with a degree in medicine, but turned to filmmaking instead of medical practice after completing his degree. He went to work at the National Film Board of Canada where he trained in all facets of filmmaking, although his first film for the NFB, 1953's Trio-Brio, was permanently lost when the organization moved its head office from Ottawa to Montreal. As a filmmaker, he dropped the s from his surname, a common Québécois surname, because the Jutra spelling was more distinctive.
In 1958 he went to France to work with François Truffaut and Jean Rouch.
With financing and production provided by the National Film Board, Jutra co-wrote and directed the 1971 film Mon oncle Antoine as well as directing several cinema vérité shorts such as Wrestling and The Devil's Toy. He also co-directed with Norman McLaren and starred in the pixilation short A Chairy Tale. He was offered the Order of Canada in 1972 but declined because he was a Quebec separatist.
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