Raymonde Provencher

{{Short description|Canadian documentary filmmaker}}

Raymonde Provencher is a Canadian documentary filmmaker,Luc Perreault, "Raymonde Provencher: haro sur un crime de guerre". La Presse, December 7, 2002. most noted for her films War Babies (War Babies, nés de la haine)Manon Dumais, [https://voir.ca/cinema/2002/12/05/war-babies-raymonde-provencher-mere-courage/ "War Babies / Raymonde Provencher : Mère courage"]. Voir, December 5, 2002. and Grace, Milly, Lucy...Child Soldiers (Grace, Milly, Lucy ... Des fillettes soldates).T'Cha Dunlevy, "How girls become 'killing machines'". Montreal Gazette, February 11, 2011.

Formerly a television journalist associated most prominently with Télé-Québec's documentary series Nord-Sud, she cofounded the Macumba Films documentary studio with Robert Cornellier and Patricio Henríquez in 1995.Odile Tremblay, "Histoire d'horreurs". Le Devoir, December 7, 2002. In addition to her own work as a director, she is often credited as a producer on films directed by Cornellier or Henríquez.

War Babies was the winner of the Hot Docs Audience Award at the 2003 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,"Hot Docs festival hands out 12 awards". The Globe and Mail, May 6, 2003. and won four Gémeaux Awards in 2003.Gaetan Charlebois, "A prize gala weekend". Montreal Gazette, November 24, 2003.

A retrospective program of Provencher's films War Babies, Grace, Milly, Lucy, Crimes Without Honour and Café Désirs was scheduled to take place at Hot Docs in 2020.Frederick Blichert, [https://playbackonline.ca/2020/01/21/hot-docs-honors-stanley-nelson-unveils-focus-on-made-in-programs-2/ "Hot Docs to Focus On the work of Raymonde Provencher"]. Playback, January 21, 2020. When the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the retrospective was postponed instead of taking place as part of the online program,Victoria Ahearn, "Hot Docs festival to launch online version with more than 135 films". Canadian Press, May 5, 2020. and instead was staged at the 2022 festival.Judy Wolfe, [https://povmagazine.com/raymonde-provencher-tells-stories-that-need-to-be-told/ "Raymonde Provencher Tells Stories that Need to Be Told"]. Point of View, April 21, 2022.