Finding Macpherson (2014)
Le Mystère de Macpherson
Years after first being inspired by a Félix Leclerc song, Martine Chartrand directed the film MACPHERSON. Ten years in the making, it features animated painting on glass and draws on her extensive research on the title character. Filmmaker Serge Giguère was there from the start, carefully and sympathetically chronicling this exceptional creative process.
- Date of release
- 2014-09-26
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Serge Giguère
Casting
- Félix Leclerc — Self (archive footage)
- Martin Leclerc — Self
- Pierre Landry — Self - Interviewee
Interesting facts
Finding Macpherson is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Serge Giguère and released in 2014. The film centres on animator Martine Chartrand's complex eight-year process of making her 2011 short film Macpherson, including her research into the life of Frank Randolph MacPherson, the Jamaican immigrant to Canada who had inspired Félix Leclerc's song "Macpherson".
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