Lorraine Dufour

Lorraine Dufour (born 1950) is a Canadian film editor and producer. She has received Canadian Screen Award and Prix Iris nominations and wins for films like Post Mortem, The Negro, and Bad Seeds, and she and her longtime collaborator Robert Morin are the co-founders of Coop Vidéo de Montréal [fr].

Lorraine Dufour
Born	1950 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupations	Film editor film producer screenwriter
Years active	1977–present
Notable work	Post Mortem (1999) The Negro (2002) Bad Seeds (2016)

Biography

Lorraine Dufour was born in 1950 in Montreal.^[1] She, Robert Morin, and Jean-Pierre St-Louis were part of the trio behind the documenteur, a subgenre "mixing the false fiction and mockumentary".^[2] She and Morin co-founded Coop Vidéo de Montréal [fr] in 1977,^[3] and the two also founded Morin-Dufour Vidéo Inc.^[1] In 1980, the two directed Gus est encore dans l’armée, a short film about a Canadian Armed Forces soldier and his newfound attraction to another male soldier.^[3] In 1991, the two won the 1st Canada Council Bell Canada Award.^[4] she was also known to be the "guiding spirit of Coop Vidéo".^[2] Georges Privet called Dufour the Coop Vidéo de Montréal's "driving force" and said that "it is impossible to talk about [her longtime collaborator] Robert Morin without mentioning Lorraine Dufour".^[5]

She was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture at the 13th Genie Awards for Requiem for a Handsome Bastard.^[6] She won the Jutra Award for Best Film and Jutra Award for Best Editing at the 2nd Jutra Awards and received a nomination for the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture at the 20th Genie Awards for Post Mortem.^[7][8] She won the Jutra Award for Best Editing at the 5th Jutra Awards and was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Editing at the 23rd Genie Awards for The Negro,^[9][10] She was nominated for the Jutra Award for Best Editing at the 6th Jutra Awards for Gaz Bar Blues.^[11] She was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture and the Prix Iris Public Prize for Bad Seeds.^[12][13]

Filmography

• Même mort il faut s’organiser (1977, co-director)^[14]
• Le voleur vit en enfer (1984, co-director)^[15]
• Requiem for a Handsome Bastard (1993, editor)^[16]
• Windigo (1994, editor)^[17]
• Whoever Dies, Dies in Pain (1998, editor)^[18]
• Post Mortem (1999, producer and editor)^[19]
• Marriages (2001, editor)^[20]
• The Negro (2002, editor)^[21]
• Gaz Bar Blues (2003, producer and editor)^[22]
• May God Bless America (2006, editor)^[23]
• Deliver Me (2006, executive producer)^[24]
• Dans les villes (2006, producer)^[25]
• The Timekeeper (2009, co-screenplay)^[26]
• The Valley of Tears (2012, editor)^[27]
• Bad Seeds (2016, co-producer)^[28]

Awards and nominations

Year	Title	Award	Result	Ref.
1992	Requiem for a Handsome Bastard	Genie Award for Best Motion Picture (with Nicole Robert)	Nominated	[6]
2000	Post Mortem	Genie Award for Best Motion Picture	Nominated	[8]
		Jutra Award for Best Film (with Coop Vidéo de Montréal [fr])	Won	[7]
		Jutra Award for Best Editing	Won
2003	The Negro	Genie Award for Best Achievement in Editing (with George Browne)	Nominated	[10]
		Jutra Award for Best Editing	Won	[9]
2004	Gaz Bar Blues		Nominated	[11]
2016	Bad Seeds	Genie Award for Best Motion Picture (with Luc Vandal)	Nominated	[12]
2017		Prix Iris Public Prize (with Louis Bélanger and Luc Vandal)	Nominated	[13]