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name: "Charles Binamé"
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born: "29 May 1949"
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# Charles Binamé

Director. Born 29 May 1949 in Herve, Wallonia, Belgium.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 29 May 1949, Herve, Wallonia, Belgium

## Biography

Charles Binamé is a Quebec film and television director. Born in Herve, Belgium, he moved to Montreal with his family as a child. He began working at the National Film Board of Canada in the early 1970s before directing documentaries for Quebec television and later television commercials.

In the 1990s he directed the popular Quebec television series *Blanche* and *Marguerite Volant*, as well as feature films including *Eldorado* (1995), *Streetheart* (1998) and *Pandora's Beauty* (2000). His later films include the box-office hit *Séraphin: Heart of Stone* (2002) and *The Rocket* (2005), for which he won a Genie Award for best director. He has also directed episodes of series such as *Being Human* (2011), *The Listener* (2009–2012), *Rookie Blue* (2010) and *Reign* (2013–2017), and the feature *Elephant Song* (2014).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Being Human* (2011), Fi1m 70, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/being-human.md)

## Also known for

- *Reign* (2013), Director
- *Cyberbully* (2011), Director
- *Rookie Blue* (2010), Director
- *Flashpoint* (2008), Director
- *Elephant Song* (2015), Director
- *The Listener* (2009), Director
- *The Rocket* (2005), Director

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