 He spends a short part of each year on Lake Memphremagog in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.A recognized authority on Federico Fellini, his portrait of the maestro, "", won the prestigious "Rockie Award" at the 2002 Banff World Television Festival, receiving excellent reviews in "The New Yorker", "The New York Times", "Los Angeles Times", "Newsweek International", "Le Monde", "Corriere della Sera", "l'Unità", "The Herald", "The Telegraph" (London), and newspapers throughout Europe, Brazil, Australia and Japan.Nominated for Best Documentary at the European Film Awards, Europe's equivalent of the Oscars, the film established his reputation as a director of "extraordinarily controlled" feature documentaries.