Georges Dufaux

Georges Dufaux had been born in Lille, in the North of France. After graduating from high school, he enrolled in the cinema section of the Paris National Academy of Photography and Cinematography. In 1953, soon after obtaining his diploma, he left France for Brazil. In Rio, he worked with Alberto Cavalcanti, managing the labs of the Companhia Industrial Cinematografica. In 1956 he moved another time, this time to Quebec, where he was hired by the National Film Board of Canada, where he was to work for next twenty-five years as an assistant camera, camera operator, cinematographer, editor, writer and director. His career was long and fruitful, his art of lighting and framing giving the films he contributed to or signed or co-signed himself a distinctive quality. Georges Dufaux died in Switzerland on 8 November 2008. His brother, Guy Dufaux, also emigrated to Canada where he too became a talented cinematographer, editor and director.