With a background in architecture and communications, Bruno Boulianne first got noticed on the Radio-Canada television program La Course Europe-Asie in 1990–91. He went on to direct the documentary Un cirque sur le fleuve, which won the Best Hope Award at the 1994 Rendez- vous du cinéma québécois. Fascinated by the relationship between people and their environment, he has made some fifteen films that have garnered several awards, including the Grand Prize and People’s Choice Award for Le Compteur d’oiseaux (2004) at the 2005 Festival de films de Portneuf sur l’environnement, and the NFB Award for Best Canadian Film at the 23rd Festival Vues d’Afrique in Montreal for Le prix de l’exode (2006), shot in Mali. His feature-length documentary Bull’s Eye: A Painter on the Watch (2010), won the ARTV Springboard to the World Award, at the 28th International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal.
Filmography
MACHINE DE RÊVE, 75 min, Documentary, 2025
JANNICK DESLAURIERS / ÊTRE IMAGINAIRE, 20 min, Documentary, 2023
RAYMONDE APRIL: TRAVERSÉE(S), 38 min, Documentary, 2022
JULIE OUELLET, LES CHEMINS ÉPHÉMÈRES, 40 min, Documentary, 2021
JEAN-PIERRE LAROCQUE: LE FUSAIN ET L’ARGILE, 52 min, Documentary, 2019
L’HOMME DE L’ISLE, 71 min, Documentary, 2017
CLAUDE N’EST PAS MORT, 45 min, Documentary, 2017
MONSIEUR LE MAIRE, 52 min, Documentary, 2014
UN RÊVE AMÉRICAIN, 91 min, Documentary, 2014
NE TOUCHEZ PAS À MON ÉGLISE!, 63 min, Documentary, 2012
LE CHANT DE LA BROUSSE, 46 min, Documentary, 2012
BULL’S EYE, UN PEINTRE À L’AFFÛT, 75 min, Documentary, 2010
50 TONNES D’ÉPINETTES, 46 min, Documentary, 2007
POMPIERS BORÉALS, 44 min, Documentary, 2006
LE COMPTEUR D’OISEAUX, 52 min, Documentary, 2004
DES HOMMES DE PASSAGE, 43 min, Documentary, 2002
AVIATURE, 48 min, Documentary, 2000
UN CIRQUE SUR LE FLEUVE, 26 min, Documentary, 1993