He wanted to make the Oxford Film Society the largest in the UK, and hoped to allocate more funds to the EFG, whose members were keen to become avant-garde filmmakers.
With a budget of £750, he produced Sestriere, a film of such quality that it was screened in Norway and Canada, and aired on French television.
[6] In the course of raising funds to make Between Two Worlds, Coté had contacted the London office of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
Much of his time through the late 1950s was spent on organizing the festival, which would launch in 1960 and end, due to in-fighting, ideological differences and politics, in 1967.
In 1968, the majority of its board members voted to center the institution's activities around the interests of Quebec and re-name it Cinémathèque Québécoise.
In 1969, the NFB created Studio D for French-language production and Coté became its program manager and chief documentary producer.
[17] In 1979, as part of the NFB's 40th birthday celebrations, he created a trilogy on international cooperation: Marastoon: The Place Where One Is Helped (Afghanistan),[18] Dominga (Bolivia), and Azzel (Niger).
[19] Coté's last films were a series of documentaries about the history of religion in Quebec culture which, with François Brault, Gilles Lenoir and Raymond Gauthier, he produced through 1987.
In 1977, Guy and Nancy returned to school, going to night classes in Sociology at Concordia University before applying to the Master's program at Oxford.
Guy continued on, studying social mobility, and obtained his doctorate from Oxford in 1983,[20] after which he lectured on sociology at the University of Montreal.
Coté became vice-president of the local historical society and wrote articles about the region for the newspaper La Voix de l'Est.
(He was also Treasurer of the Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Reserve and Vice-President of Parks and Natural Spaces for the Fondation de la faune du Québec.)
In the spring of 1993, with the stress of the situation mounting, Coté and his wife traveled to Switzerland, where he suffered a heart attack.