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Robert Daudelin

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Robert Daudelin

Robert Daudelin (born May 31, 1939, in Bromont, Quebec) is a Canadian film administrator and historian, best known as the longtime director of the Cinémathèque québécoise.[1]

He was a founder of the Quebec film magazine Objectif, a programmer for the Montreal International Film Festival,[2] and the first director of the Conseil québécois pour la diffusion du cinéma, and has served on the board of the International Federation of Film Archives.[1] In 1987, he made Konitz: Portrait of the Artist as a Saxophonist, a documentary film about jazz musician Lee Konitz, for the National Film Board.[1]

He received Quebec's Prix Albert-Tessier for contributions to Quebec cinema in 2002,[3] a Special Achievement Genie in 2003,[4] and was named as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2004.[5]

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