“The National Film Board of Canada has announced that director-producer René́ Jodoin passed away on January 22, 2015, in Montreal, at the age of 94. Born in Hull, Quebec, in 1920, Jodoin was recruited to the NFB by Norman McLaren in 1943 after graduating from the École des Beaux-arts de Montréal. He became head of the NFB’s science film program in 1963, and in 1966 was mandated to create an animation studio within the NFB’s new French Production Sector… [full post on AWN].
