Jacques Leduc (born November 25, 1941) is a Canadian film director and cinematographer.
[1] Leduc began his career in 1961 working as a film critic for the magazine Objectif.
Over the course of the next few years he worked under such filmmakers as Denys Arcand, Gilles Carle, and Don Owen.
Leduc continued his work as Director with his first feature film in 1967 entitled Nomininque, depuis qu'il existe and his first feature documentary film in 1969 entitled Cap d'espoir.
The documentary film was "about the muted violence that existed [in Quebec] and the monopoly over news held by Power Corp." and became one of the most famous cases of censorship at the NFB when it was banned by NFB commissioner Hugo McPherson.