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General Information

Mandate of the Documentary Network

Created in 2003 under the auspices of the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal (RIDM) by the professional audiovisual associations (APFTQ, ARRQ, DOC, CFTPA and CQGCR2), the Documentary Network acts as a place to come together for reflection and discussion, to ensure that documentary maintains its essential position in the world of cinema.

The Network aims to ensure that documentary plays its rightful role in the defense of democracy, tolerance, and open-mindedness. It encourages speaking out and public debate sparked by films that tackle the issues, aspirations and values of society.

The Network works to improve the conditions that enable Canadian POV documentary creation and production and to facilitate access to POV documentary for all audiences.

The Documentary Network Membership

The Documentary Network is presently composed of 12 organizations (institutions and associations) chosen among the most representative of Canada’s professional audiovisual milieu:

• The Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA)
• L’Association des producteurs de films et de télévision du Québec (APFTQ)
• L’Association québécoise des techniciens de l’image et du son (AQTIS)
• L’Association des réalisateurs et réalisatrices du Québec (ARRQ)
• The Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA)
• The Quebec Council of the Directors Guild of Canada (CQGCR)
• Documentary Organisation of Canada (DOC)
• The National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
• Les Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM)
• Le Vidéographe
• Télé-Québec
• La Société Radio-Canada/Canadian Broadcasting Television

Board of Directors

Its Board is composed of individual delegates from its member organizations:

• Manon Barbeau, President (ARRQ)
• Monique Simard, Vice-President (APFTQ), Ian McLaren, substitute
• Fortner Anderson, Vice-President (CQGCR)
• Marie-Anne Raulet, Treasurer (RIDM)
• Marie-Dominique Bonmariage, Secretary (Vidéographe), Bernard Claret, substitute
• Philippe Baylaucq (RIDM)
• Danielle Beaudry (Télé-Québec), Alain Ergas, substitute
• Claude Bonin and Tom Perlmutter (ONF) alternatively — assisted by Colette Loumède, Yves Bisaillon
• Daniel Cross (CFTPA), John Christou, Mila Aung-Thwin, substitutes
• Jennifer Dorner (AAMI), François-Xavier Tremblay, substitue
• Malcolm Guy (DOC), Sylvie Van Brabant, substitute
• Lise Lachapelle, secretary (ARRQ), Magnus Isacsson, substitute
• Paul Lapointe (RIDM)
• Catherine Loumède (AQTIS), Michel Charles Major, substitute
• Jean Pelletier (SRC), Luc Paradis, substitute

The Documentary Network Supporters

The Documentary Network is supported by the SARTEC — Société des auteurs de radio, télévision et cinéma (radio, TV and cinema writers association) and the CIFVF — Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund.

Telefilm Canada, SODEC and Montreal Arts Council (and, some years, the Canada Council for the Arts) also bring their precious financial contribution to the Documentary Network projects.

Human Resources

Lucette Lupien is the Executive Director of the Documentary Network.

To organize its Forum 2005, the Documentary Network benefited from the generous collaboration of a number of persons, either volunteer or on contract, among which we wish to mention André Pâquet (who was the Forum Secretary), Michel Coulombe (moderator), Ségolène Roederer (moderator), Marie Dietlin (photographer), Christine York and Valerie Vanstone (translators), Marie Boti, Christine Irlinger-Renaud and Linda Ballantyne (interpreters), Jean-François Denis and David Turgeon (website), and the RIDM team directed by Marie-Anne Raulet. Special thanks go to Alfred Dion, Marie-Dominique Lahaise, Nelly Cugnod and Charlotte Selb.