Martin Rodolphe Villeneuve

Birthday:

01/01/1970

Place of birth:

Rivière-du-Moulin, Saguenay, Québec, Canada:

Biography:

Martin Rodolphe Villeneuve was born in 1970 and holds a bachelor’s degree in cinema from UQAC. He co-scripted the animated film Les ramoneurs cérébraux (The Brainwashers) which was shown at more than 40 festivals and won the Jutra award for best animated film in 2002). He made his first documentary short, Ce qu’il reste, in 2001. In 2003, he embarked on the adventure of Le Vélocipède à patins, an animated film which won numerous awards and was shown in dozens of festivals. L'Asepsie, made in 2007 with the support of the CALQ and of the Fonds d’excellence des arts et des lettres du Saguenay, was screened at the International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal and in Cuba for the event Habanart in 2008.