Martine Chartrand (3)
Martine Chartrand
Martine Chartrand is a Montreal-born, Haitian-Canadian animator, painter/illustrator and teacher. She completed her first animated film, TV Tango, in 1992; it went on to win several international awards. She later travelled to Russia for advanced training with Alexander Petrov, one of the masters of paint-on-glass animation. After returning to Canada, she perfected the difficult technique and used it to brilliant effect on her next two films, Black Soul (2000), winner of 23 international awards, including the prestigious Golden Bear at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival, and MacPherson (2010), which also earned many honours. In 2020, she received the René Jodoin Award in recognition of her remarkable career, her social engagement and her influence in the field of Canadian animation.
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T.V. TangoMartine Chartrand 1992 3 minFour children who have picked up all sorts of annoying behavior from watching television decide instead to create their own games. This animated film for five- to eight-year-olds is intended to awaken children's critical sense regarding the media messages aimed at them. (Film without words). -
Black SoulMartine Chartrand 2000 9 minMartine Chartrand’s animated short dives into the heart of Black culture with an exhilarating trip though history. Watch as a young boy traces his roots through the stories his grandmother shares with him about the events that shaped their cultural heritage.
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MacPhersonMartine Chartrand 2012 10 minThis animated film by Martine Chartrand (Black Soul) recounts the friendship between a young Félix Leclerc and Frank Randolph Macpherson, a Jamaican chemical engineer and university graduate who worked for a pulp and paper company. An inveterate jazz fan, Macpherson inspired Leclerc, who wrote a song about the log drives and entitled it “MacPherson” in honour of his friend. Paint-on-glass animation shot with a 35mm camera.
