Denys Desjardins received the Film Critics' Award for best Quebec short film two years in a row and then joined the National Film Board of Canada, where he directed Almanach (1999), My Eye for a Camera (2001) and The Great Resistance (2007). Both of the latter films were nominated for a Jutra award for Best Documentary in 2003 and 2008. At the NFB he also directed Being Human (2005) and Rebel with a Camera (2006), which won him the Film Critics' award for best medium-length documentary.