Marc Champion

History

Marc Champion was a Canadian cinematographer. He is most noted as a two-time Canadian Film Award/Genie Award nominee for Best Cinematography, receiving nominations at the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978 for I, Maureen, and at the 7th Genie Awards in 1986 for Samuel Lount, and as a Gemini Award winner for Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series at the 3rd Gemini Awards in 1988 for Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel.

Movies

These Onions Don't Make Me Cry
Director of Photography
Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel
Director of Photography
Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She acts as Diana's maid of honor, develops a relationship with Gilbert Blythe, and finds herself at Kingsport Ladies' College. But while Anne enjoys the battles and the friends she makes, she finds herself returning to Avonlea.
Samuel Lount
Director of Photography
Back in 1837 in the Northwoods of Canada and beyond, a movement was started among the colonialists to demand the right to own property in the New World. This interesting docudrama follows the tragic outcome of that movement for one of its leaders, the pacifist and nearly beatific Samuel Lount (also the great-great-great uncle of producer Elvira Lount). The orator and journalist William Lyon Mackenzie stoked up the fire among the property-deprived, and a march on Toronto was begun. Lount was convinced to join the rebellion much against his better judgment -- he belonged to the Children of Peace religious sect. Lount's own pacifism meant nothing to the authorities; they executed Lount for treason after crushing the rebellion. R.H. Thomson plays the title role in this low-budget but high-energy effort.
The House of Dies Drear
Director of Photography
A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Soon they begin to suspect that the ghosts of slaves who passed through there are haunting the house.
Out of the Blue
Director of Photography
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.
I, Maureen
Cinematography
A 1980 Canadian drama by Janine Manatis.
Angela
Director of Photography
A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so she reports him. Twenty years later, she still wants to find her son. She meets a young man and falls in love, but the vet's prison term ends.
Why Shoot the Teacher?
Director of Photography
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.
Breaking Point
Director of Photography
The Mafia tries to take revenge against a man who testified against them in court.
Partners
Director of Photography
When a business competitor assassinates her father when the father refuses to sell his firm, young woman takes over her father's paper company and with the help of her gangster boyfriend learns how to fight back against competitors.
Sunday in the Country
Director of Photography
Three vicious thugs are on the run in rural America after robbing a local bank. They seek refuge at the home of a reclusive farmer, but he is prepared for their arrival and holds them at gunpoint. Unable to let them simply wait for the law, he decides to take them into into his cellar and torture them a little before the police arrive.
Slipstream
Cinematography
A reclusive Albertan DJ runs his popular pirate radio station in a remote farmhouse but begins to feel pressure from his romantic relationship with a fan and his producer who wants more mainstream content.
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
Cinematography
A famous heart surgeon finds out that a medical research foundation is being used for shady and illegal purposes.
Bang Bang
Director of Photography
Sheila's uncle has just died; many of his relatives come, but,much to their displeasure, it's his niece who inherits his private detective agency. But she must first go through a training in a school: gymnastic, assault course, machine gun shooting; she must also learn how to cheat at card games .Her first mission is to find back gangster La Rafale's fiancee, Genevieve, who ran away with another gang. She meets a handsome Interpol lieutenant she falls in love with.
Dernier Soir
Cinematography
The day after the last performance of the ballet Cinderella. The author alone in the empty theater. Then the show from yesterday evening unfolds.
Bon pour le service
Self
Bon pour le service
Director of Photography
Paris la belle
Director of Photography
A look at Paris in 1928 in black and white and then color sequences filmed in the same places in 1959.
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
Assistant Camera
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter.