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Yves Bélanger (born July 7, 1960) is a Canadian cinematographer. He has worked on films by directors such as Alain DesRochers, Xavier Dolan and Clint Eastwood, and he was a frequent collaborator of Jean-Marc Vallée.
Cinematographer: Brooklyn. Yves Bélanger was born on 7 July 1960 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is a cinematographer, known for Brooklyn (2015), Dallas Buyers Club (2013) and Wild (2014).
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- Yves Bélanger
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
Yves Belanger. Born in Saint-Jean-d’Iberville and raised in Québec City, Yves Bélanger moved to Montreal to study film production at Concordia University, where he became part of a new wave of Canadian cinema artists and also became bilingual.
- The Freedom to Choose
- It’S Not About The Perfect Shot
- ‘Concordia Introduced Me to My Cinema Family’
While he says he never aspired to make it big in Hollywood, it’s the freedom that comes with success that Bélanger most appreciates. “Now I get to pick what projects I work on,” he says. “I have three criteria that I use to decide which films to do: the director, the script and the salary. I need to like at least two out of three to say yes. “I als...
Bélanger says that some cinematographers are obsessed with each individual shot, but he sees his role as that of a storyteller. He took that passion to the next level with Matthias & Maxime (2019), which was also a Dolan production. Bélanger’s friend and fellow Concordia grad, André Turpin, BFA 89, was the film’s director of photography and he and ...
Bélanger credits Concordia with broadening his horizons and introducing him to several future collaborators.
Yves Bélanger belongs to a coterie of French-Canadian filmmakers who’ve caught Hollywood’s attention in recent years.
Dec 22, 2015 · Yves Belanger, the French-Canadian cinematographer of John Crowley’s Brooklyn, worked consistently for 20 years before breaking out with a series of films by Jean-Marc Vallée. Transitioning...
Yves Bélanger (born July 7, 1960) is a Canadian cinematographer. He has worked on films by directors such as Alain Desrochers, Xavier Dolan and Clint Eastwood, and he is a frequent collaborator of Jean-Marc Vallée.
