Borned in Rivière-du-Loup in 1943, Fernand Bélanger worked in cinema as a director, editor and scriptwriter. While studying at the Académie de Québec, he made his first short film, Carreau de soleil (1965). After an internship in anthropology at the Sorbonne and in cinema at IDHEC, he made Via Borduas (1968). A year later, as part of the program «Premières oeuvres» at the NFB, he made Ti-coeur, in which images, sounds and music are combined in an audacious editing. In the same vein, he made Ty-peupe. In 1979, his film De la tourbe et du restant changed the way documentaries in Quebec are made. Afterwards, he realized L'émotion dissonante, Love addict and L'après-cours (1984), Passiflora (1985) and Le trésor archange (1996), a musical documentary inspired by the novel of Jacques Ferron Le Saint-Élias and the musical work of René Lussier, Le trésor de la langue. In 2003, he experimented animation with his film Après le deluge. As editor, he worked with many filmmakers in documentaries, animation, and fiction. He was considered "an outstanding, stimulating, and innovative filmmaker, known as much for his themes as for his style" (per Patrick Leboutte in Cinémaction.)