Michel La Veaux

Michel La Veaux (born January 21, 1955, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian cinematographer and documentary filmmaker.[ 1] He is most noted for his work on the films The Dismantling (Le Démantèlement), for which he won the Jutra Award for Best Cinematography at the 16th Jutra Awards,[ 2] and The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles), for which he won the Borsos Competition award for best cinematography in a Canadian film at the 2018 Whistler Film Festival.[ 3]

La Veaux has also been a Jutra/Iris nominee at the 13th Jutra Awards in 2011 for Mourning for Anna (Trois temps après la mort d'Anna),[ 4] at the 14th Jutra Awards in 2012 for For the Love of God (Pour l'amour de Dieu)[ 5] and at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018 for Iqaluit,[ 6] and a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for Meetings with a Young Poet.[ 7]

La Veaux has also directed a number of documentary films, including Hôtel La Louisiane (2015) and Labrecque, une caméra pour la mémoire (2016).[ 8]