Career
After graduating from the University of Laval with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy Perron went to France to continue his studies with the goal of becoming a teacher. Screenings at the Cinémathèque française in Paris was what attracted him to cinema and on his return to Canada in 1957, he joined the NFB as a writer Perron continued to work primarily on documentaries until the NFB decided to make an attempt at a more commercial cinema in the late sixties and early seventies.
Perron retired from the NFB in 1986 to work in the private sector primarily as a writer