Gilles Groulx

Gilles Groulx was a Canadian film director. He grew up in a working-class family with 14 children. After studying business in school, he went to work in an office but found the white-collar environment wasn't for him. He attended the École du meuble de Montréal for a time and was a supporter of Borduas' automatiste movement. His 8 mm amateur films, landed him a job as picture editor in the news department of the CBC. He was later hired by the National Film Board (NFB) during the beginning of the candid eye movement in 1956.