Onyx Films
{{Short description|Film Production Business}}
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Onyx Films was a film production business in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1962 by Pierre Lamy and his brother André Lamy.{{Cite web|url=https://playbackonline.ca/1998/12/14/24004-19981214/|title=Lamy dead at 72}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nfb.ca/film/making_movie_history_andre_lamy/|title=Making Movie History: André Lamy|first=National Film Board of|last=Canada|via=www.nfb.ca}} Their films include Le Viol d'une jeune fille douce ('The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl'), a satire. Gilles Carle worked with the film company on several productions.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FeflDQAAQBAJ&dq=onyx+films+quebec&pg=PA1969-IA51|title=Creative Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-century Creative and Performing Artists (Volume 1)|date=December 15, 1971|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=9781442637832|via=Google Books}}
The Canadian Post Office and Royal Canadian Mounted Police had contracts with Onyx to make films in 1971.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gNqOmZE62msC&dq=onyx+films+quebec&pg=PA94|title=Quebec: A Chronicle: 1968-1972|first1=Nick Auf der|last1=Maur|first2=Robert|last2=Chodos|date=April 17, 1972|publisher=James Lorimer & Company|isbn=9780888620255|via=Google Books}}
The 2010 documentary film La vie privée d'Onyx ('The Very Private Affair of Onyx') directed by Denys Desjardins is about the company's history.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/cinema/317019/entrevue-avec-denys-desjardins-reves-et-detresses-de-notre-industrie-du-cinema|title=Entrevue avec Denys Desjardins - Rêves et détresses de notre industrie du cinéma|website=Le Devoir}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmsquebec.com/lhistoire-insoupconnee-du-cinema-quebecois/|title = L'Histoire insoupçonnée du cinéma québécois}}
Filmography
- Pas de vacances pour les idoles ('No Vacation for Idols') (1965){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h2AbAQAAIAAJ&q=onyx+films+quebec|title = Canada and Canadians in Feature Films: A Filmography, 1928-1990|isbn = 9780889554153|last1 = Project|first1 = Canadian Film|year = 1996| publisher=Canadian Film Project, University of Guelph }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmsquebec.com/films/pas-de-vacances-pour-les-idoles-denis-heroux/|title = Pas de vacances pour les idoles – Film de Denis Héroux}}
- Le Viol d'une jeune fille douce ('The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl') (1968){{cite book |last1=Pratley |first1=Gerald |title=Torn Sprockets: The Uncertain Projection of the Canadian Film |year=1987 |publisher=University of Delaware Press |isbn=978-0-87413-194-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k-d7P4BD-cQC&dq=%22Onyx+Films%22+montreal&pg=PA191 |language=en}}
- Deux femmes en or ('Two Golden Women') (1970){{Cite web|url=https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2021/03/18/deux-bijoux-de-films-sur-l-udem-sont-devoiles-par-les-archives/|title=article|date=November 18, 2020|website=nouvelles.umontreal.ca}}
- Les Males ('The Males') (1971){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k-d7P4BD-cQC&dq=pierre+lamy+onyx&pg=PA199|title = Torn Sprockets: The Uncertain Projection of the Canadian Film|isbn = 9780874131949|last1 = Pratley|first1 = Gerald|year = 1987| publisher=University of Delaware Press }}
- La Feuille d'Erable ('The Maple Leaf') (1971), a series directed by Aimée Danis, Gilles Carle, and other{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wb6xAAAAIAAJ&q=onyx+films+quebec|title=Documentation Sur la Recherche Féministe|date=April 17, 1979|publisher=Ontario Institute for Studies in Education|via=Google Books}}
- All Ears to Gaspé (1974), a documentary film about Quebec's Gaspé region.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xicXxYEJ9WkC&q=all+ears+to+gaspe|title=Canadiana|date=April 17, 1976|publisher=National Library of Canada.|via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1KVmAAAAMAAJ&q=all+ears+to+gaspe|title=Films and Other Materials for Projection|first=Library of|last=Congress|date=April 17, 1978|publisher=Library of Congress.|via=Google Books}} The film documents the lifestyle of the Gaspesie people in the area of fishing and tourism as well as the departure of young people.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PpdYAAAAYAAJ&q=all+ears+to+gaspe|title=NICEM Update of Nonbook Media|first=National Information Center for Educational|last=Media|date=April 17, 1978|publisher=Los Angeles, University of Southern California.|via=Google Books}}
- Carnaval d'hiver de Québec{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pAT_evkaU94C&q=onyx+films+quebec|title = Films and Other Materials for Projection|last1 = Congress|first1 = Library of}}