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For 30 years, from 1975 to 2005, Pierre Mignault was a career journalist with Radio-Canada, first in Toronto, next covering the Québec Assemblée Nationale, and then in Montréal, where he worked for Le Téléjournal / Le Point news program. As a videographer, he has directed several feature reportages and short Canadian and international documentaries, which allowed him to develop his documentary approach. For ten years, Pierre Mignault also taught ethics and techniques of journalism at Radio-Canada, here in Canada. Since 2004, he’s been doing training workshops and editorial supervision in developing democracies, specifically in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Haiti. *** Hélène Magny was editor, researcher and interviewer at Radio-Canada for 17 years. She also worked on public affairs programs for radio and television such as Présent National, Sans Frontières, Le Point and Les Grands Reportages. In 1990, after receiving an award from the Quebec Federation of Professional Journalists (Federation Professionnelle des Journalistes du Québec), she went to the Amazon in north-eastern Brazil to direct a feature radio documentary about the assassination of landless peasants, for the Radio-Canada program Dimanche Magazine. For seven months in 2003-2004, Hélène Magny directed two United Nations regional Radio Okapi stations in the Demoncratic Republic of Congo. As editor-in-chief, she accompanied Congolese journalists in their work and was able to see for her eyes the enormous impact this radio has on the Congolese population. This marked the start of the documentary Shock Waves, released in 2007. *** In 2005, Pierre Mignault and Hélène Magny established CINÉDIT Productions, their Montreal-based documentary production company. In 1999, the two filmmakers directed their first documentary, Le Sentier du Milieu, which describes the quest of a man from Quebec who became a Buddhist monk in Burma. Following his progress along the middle path, we discover the role Buddhism plays in maintaining the social and political order in Burma, a country inaccessible to most foreigners. Shock Waves, their second documentary, is produced by InformAction. |
