Jacques Godbout(I)
- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Master degree in Literature at the Universite de Montreal. Three years
of teaching at the Addis-Abeba University. Back at Montreal 1957
working in advertising. Office national du film du Canada in 1958.
Founder of the cultural periodic 'Liberte'in 1959. First movie
direction in 1962. Jacques Godbout: at the same time a well known
novelist, 'Salut Galarneau', making fiction movies, from a thriller
like _Gammick, La (1974)_ to a parody musical _IXE-13 (1971)_; and a poet working also on
documentaries on the culture Paul-Émile Borduas (1962), on the
communication Feu l'objectivité (1979) (1979) or on identity usurpation like Alias Will James (1988)
(1988).
