Making Movie History Monique Fortier

Monique Fortier was one of the few women to make her way in the male world of the NFB in the 1950s But make her way she did Beginning as a secretary she graduated to editing and in 1963 she became the first francophone woman to direct her own film À lheure de la décolonisation Her NFB colleague Anne Claire Poirier would make her first film the same year Fortier subsequently returned to editing quietly labouring at the Steenbeck shaping films that helped define Direct Cinema