Director of the Quebec Film Archive from 1972 to 2002, Robert Daudelin was previously the editor of the film magazine “Objectif” (published in Montreal from 1960 to 1967), deputy director at the Montreal International Film Festival (from 1963 to 1967) and director of the Quebec Film Broadcasting Council (from 1969 to 1972). Highly active in the Film Archive movement, he was Secretary-General of the International Federation of Film Archives from 1979 to 1985, and its president from 1989 to 1995. He has written numerous articles on cinema, and in 1987 he directed a documentary on the American musician Lee Konitz : Konitz, portrait de l’artiste en saxophoniste. At the present time he is editor in chief of the “Journal of Film Preservation”, a member of the editorial board of the Montreal magazine, “24 images”, and guest lecturer at St-Joseph University in Beirut.