Gil Courtemanche

Gil Courtemanche is a Journaliste and writer Québécois.

Biography

Gil Courtemanche was corresponding abroad, in particular in Africa, for the Télévision of Radio-Canada. Since its beginnings in journalism, in 1963, it was interested particularly in the international Politique and the Tiers-monde.

Gil Courtemanche is journalist since 1962. He initially collaborated in several emissions in the radio and the television of Radio-Canada of which 60, Métro Magazine and Présent National . Always in Radio-Canada, it then created the emission the Event of which it was also the organizer (between 1978 and 1980). It was at the same time leader-writer at the station CBOT of Ottawa (English network). It was also then stimulating and script writer of the emission Enjeux . In 1978, it animated Contact the first magazine of public affairs for TV-Quebec. Gil Courtemanche was stimulating, analyst and corresponding for the emissions Télémag, First Page, the Point , in Radio-Canada of 1980 to 1986.

It took part in the foundation of the daily newspaper the Day and was journalist for the Press . He is a collaborator various publications since 1986 like Alternatives , the Bookseller and holds a chronicle in the Duty .

During 8 years, it held a chronicle in the Sun and the Duty on the international policy. Several of the texts published in these chronicles are gathered in international Chroniques .

Gil Courtemanche was also interested in the realization of documentary. It in particular took part in the realization of a series of testimonys entitled Sun in the night produces for TV5 Europe-Africa-Canada, at the time of the first birthday of the genocide in Rwanda. It also carried out and scénarisé documentary on the AIDS in Rwanda the Church of the AIDS ( The Gospel off AIDS ). Gil Courtemanche also produced and realized various documentary and advertisements on the third world for the organizations “ the Leger Cardinal and his works ” and OXFAM-Quebec (leprosy in Haiti, problems of water, the agricultural development in Philippines, the training program of handicapped children in Thailand, etc)

** This information is drawn from Internet site of its editor Boréal http://www.editionsboreal.qc.ca/fr-bio.php?idContributor=274

These last years, it held a chronicle in the daily newspapers the Sun (Quebec) and the Right. He is now chronicler with the daily newspaper the Duty.

Its first novel, One Sunday to swimming pool to Kigali , which tells the Génocide which was perpetrated with the Rwanda in 1994, was adapted to the cinema by Robert Favreau. The film One Sunday with Kigali left in room in April 2006.

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