Stéphan Office

Stéphan Bureau is a journalist and stimulating Québécois, which animates and produced documentary emissions and series for the Télévision.

Biography

Stéphan Bureau was born the July 2nd 1964 with Montreal. As of adolescence, it is impassioned for the cinema, the literature and the cartoon, and dreams to become actor. At the 13 years age, the life offers a gold occasion to him to put forward its talents. It passes a hearing to Radio-Canada and becomes one of the young chroniclers of the Téléjeans emission which is addressed to the young people.

In 1984, it makes its first weapons in radiophonic journalism in Radio-Canada, while continuing a programme of Russian studies to the Université Concordia. The following year, it on television starts its career as presenter of news in Four-season Télévision, before animating in TV-Quebec (then called Radio-Quebec) the magazine Clean slate, processing international data, then Quebec Inc. It is as for the Québécois public network as it designs and produces the emission '' Contact '', a series of in-depth talks with celebrities of the artistic, literary and intellectual world: (Michel Tournier, Paul Auster, Elie Wiesel, Nancy Huston, Michel Greenhouses, Jean Marsh, etc). This series of 26 episodes, diffused in all the Francophonie, was worth the prestigious price of Rogers arts to him to the Canada English.

Since, one saw it in all the great media and French-speaking Canadian television networks. In 1992, Stéphan Bureau leaves to Washington where it is corresponding for the daily newspaper montréalais '' the Press '' and for the Réseau VAT, which entrusts the magazine of public affairs to him weekly the Event during three years. In 1995, it is named chief of antenna of the Tv news 22 hours, the VAT Edition-network . The afternoon of the referendum on the political future of Quebec, held this year, it records a memorable interview with the Prime Minister for Quebec, Jacques Parizeau, which delivers to him then out of early product its legacy political.

The year 1997 mark another turning in its course. Stéphan Bureau passes to Radio-Canada where it is stimulating in turn, corresponding to New York then chief of antenna of the large national magazine of information Téléjournal/the Point , station which it occupies of 1998 to 2003. Several times during its mandate, Stéphan Bureau will be with the first cabins to speak about the big events of the Québécois, Canadian and international topicality: Olympic Games of Nagano - from where it delivers reports on the Canadian athletes and various aspects of the Japanese life -; the surprised resignation of Québécois the Prime Minister Lucien Bouchard; the death of the ex-first Canadian minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau; the tenth birthday of the fall of the wall of Berlin; the election of Vladimir Poutine; the top of Rambouillet, etc

In 2003, Stéphan Bureau chooses nevertheless to give up the world of information to devote itself to various projects which are due to him in heart. The Québécois public will not be remains about it since the organizer remade surface, inter alia, within the framework it Festival Right to laugh for which it conceives and animates the official receptions homage to the Québécois artists Clémence Desrochers (2004) and Jean Lapointe (2005). It proposes there also a series of great interviews in front of public with famous humorists, among whom French actors Pierre Richard and Franck Dubosc.

Stéphan Bureau returns to the screen in 2006, at the same time as producer and interviewor. Initially with the documentary series Contact , which it starts again in a form more packed even in TV-Quebec, and with the emission the exchanger , a weekly emission of interviews diffused with VAT.

The Slow fox trot TV , or the TV which takes its time

Throughout the fifteen last years, Stéphan Bureau carried out interviews which impassioned the public. Anxious to explore thoroughly the step of its guests, it quickly was essential in the French-speaking televisual landscape for its listening and its talents of popularizer. Falling under the line of the David Frost, Charlie Pink and Bernard Pivot, it contributed besides to reveal the thought and the work of attractive characters, often ignored televiewers.

It is besides to push this register even further Stéphan Bureau chose, in 2003, to give up the world of information to devote themselves to its personal projects and to explore new avenues in the field of the televisual production. With counter-current of the current trend which puts before the contents “ready to turn, quickly consumed”, Stéphan Bureau takes the turn of what it calls the slow fox trot TV (in reference to the movement Slow Food), an approach who recommends the deepening of the contents. Where the others accelerate the rate/rhythm, it makes the bet thus slow down the step and meditate on the course of the great creators of our time. It is the TV which takes its time.

The year 2006 marks, inter alia, the return in strength of the series of talks Contact . Entitled '' CONTACT, the encyclopedia of creation '', this series documentary proposes exceptional meetings with large thinkers and contemporary creators: the director Free Dragone, the writers Jean d' Ormesson, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Gallant Mavis, Marek Halter, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jose Saramago, Dany Laferrière, Daniel Pennac, Amin Maalouf, politicking the Simone Veil, the novelist and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, the chief Alain Ducasse, the bedeist Enki Bilal, the Colombian sculptor Fernando Botero, the man of theater and scenario writer Robert Lepage, the journalist, author and scenario writer Philippe Labro, the economist and essay writer Jacques Attali, and the scenario writer and playwright Jean-Claude Carrière.

The series is supplied with a site of reference which is the agent of all the richness of the emissions. One finds there files of research packed, new video extracts of the interviews, exclusive photographs of plate, plays questionnaires, the integral transcription of the interviews, which represent up to 5 hours of discussion with the guest, the notebooks of turning of Stéphan Bureau offering a single glance on the slides of turning, a critical and interpretative comment of the interview written by researchers of the Université of Sherbrooke and finally, the possibility of re-examining the integral of the episodes on the Web.

CONTACT, the encyclopedia of creation incarnates the result of the vision of Stéphan Bureau and its unconditional passion for the universe of knowledge.

Price and distinctions

That it is for the production and the animation of the series Contact , for its work of chief of antenna of a large news bulletin or more specifically for its interviews with great figures of the political world and artistic, Stéphan Bureau has several times rewarded by industry for quality for its achievements.

In June 1994, its series Contact was worth the prestigious price of Rogers Arts to him in English Canada. At the time of the annual official reception of the Price Gemini, where the Canadian Academy of the cinema and television reward the best film productions and televisual, Stéphan Bureau has raid several statuettes, jointly with Radio-Canada, whereas it was stimulating and presenter of the large tv news of the company of State.

1994 : Price of Rogers arts for the documentary series Contact
1999 : Gemini price, Better tv news for Téléjournal/the Point
2000 : Gemini price, Better tv news for Téléjournal/the Point
2000 : Gemini price, Better interview: all categories for Téléjournal/the Point
2001 : Gemini price, Better tv news for Téléjournal/the Point
2002 : Gemini price, Better tv news for Téléjournal/the Point
2006 : Nomination for the Price Gemini, Better biography or portrait for Contact, the encyclopedia of creation (bearing episode on the writer Jean d' Ormesson)
2006 : Nomination for the Gemini Price, Better Web site of television program for Contact, the encyclopedia of creation (www.contacttv.net)

External bonds

Site of the documentary series '' CONTACT, the encyclopedia of '' creation animated by Stéphan Office
Canadian Academy of the cinema and television
Festival Right to laugh

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