Team

A grass-roots filmmaker, Hélène Choquette was a camera operator, photographer and researcher before devoting herself to her real passion: making socially relevant documentaries. Her most notable works are Marché Jean-Talon (2004), Les enfants de Tchernobyl  (2006), The Refugees of the Blue Planet (2006) and Avenue Zéro (2009). Always questioning, defying taboos, Choquette has won a number of awards.

Paul Arseneau has been working in film and TV for over 20 years, and has been an independent director/producer since 2003. He has directed numerous social issue documentaries for TV, for such series as Peu importe l’âge and Trésors Vivants. His writer credits include Kedgwick and Hasroun.  His work in fiction is tailored to public awareness campaigns by non-profit organizations.

With a degree in communications studies and political science from Concordia University and another in directing from INIS, this former news editor regularly goes out into the field to make documentaries. As an independent filmmaker, Vincent Audet-Nadeau's first point-of-view film, La vie après la shop, earned him a nomination at the 2006 Gémeaux.

Arnaud Bourquet’s director credits include Buenos Aires no llores, an award-winning account of Argentina’s financial crisis, Si j’avais un chapeau and Les Algues bleues. His web work includes Une langue qui nous rassemble and the NFB’s GDP Project. He works as a DOP in cinema and TV production and is a recipient of TV5’s bursary for digital creation.

Born in Winnipeg, and now based in Vancouver where for 20 years he has been creating media for both business and the arts, Clancy Dennehy produced and directed the documentary Farm Futures, and was director of photography on many national network documentary films including Pretty Boys. His own art films have screened internationally on television and film festivals tours. 

Vali Fugulin has been active in the documentary genre for 10 years, working in both film and TV. Her credits include Zed in Tokyo, a feature-length documentary made for the Cirque du Soleil; Tupperware: Bowl of Success; S’envoyer en l’air, about sexual adventurers; and www.six.lemondeestpetit.ca, on the idea of “six degrees of separation.”

From fiction to documentaries, comedy to drama, TV to films, Matt Gallagher casts his net wide. A director with 15 years experience, he had no hesitation in leaving his hometown of Windsor in 1996 to settle in Halifax, where for two years he wrote and directed TV comedy shows. Since 2000, his documentaries have made him a regular visitor at festivals across Canada and abroad (Input 2003 in Denmark) and have earned him a number of nominations and awards.

A native of Prince Edward Island, Pamela Gallant has been working in film for over 20 years. Her short fiction films won awards at the Atlantic Film Festival and the Silver Wave Film Festival. As a director and editor, she has worked on more than 50 TV productions (mostly documentary series) that have aired in Canada, the U.S and Europe.

Jeremy Gans made a remarkable entry into the documentary universe with his 2006 debut No Past to Speak Of, which won the CIDA Award for the Best Canadian Film on an International Development at the Hot Docs festival. With his latest documentary Snipped addressing the delicate issue of circumcision and HIV prevention in Africa – this young filmmaker demonstrates a fearless ability to confront controversial subjects head-on.

While Janice Goudie resided in the Northwest Territories for a time, it’s Canada’s most easterly province that inspires her most. For the past 10 years, Goudie has enthusiastically told the stories of her province through work as a journalist for various local print media, CBC Radio and Rogers TV.

Trained as a photographer, becoming a filmmaker by chance, Dominic Morissette has travelled the globe in pursuit of the world’s cultures. He has brought back a number of documentaries, notably Les derniers chasseurs du petit havre (co-directed with Catherine Pappas, 2003) and Afghan Chronicles (2007). He has also directed a special broadcast on Afghanistan at Radio-Canada/CBC in 2008. At heart an ethnologist, he has also journeyed around Pakistan and spent time in the Indus delta and in Yemen, where he set up training workshops.

Joe Moulins has been telling stories for a living since 1981. His film A Tribe of His Own: The Journalism of P. Sainath won a dozen awards, and is still screened at festivals worldwide. He directed, shot and wrote Citizen Sam, the controversial film about former Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan, which was nominated at the 2008 Gemini awards.

Matt Palmer can’t get enough of filmmaking. The 12 years he spent researching and managing locations for Hollywood productions didn’t prevent him from writing, directing and producing dozens of fiction films and documentaries over the past 17 years. Whether making cinéma -vérité or directing dramas, Palmer continues to earn fame in film festivals and has garnered numerous awards and accolades.

An award-winning citizen filmmaker, Moria Simpson has tackled a broad spectrum of subjects in a career spanning 30 years – ranging from youth drug addiction to the story behind the Montreal Massacre memorial. She recently assumed the duties of Filmmaker in Residence with Fearless City Mobile, a project that facilitates the use of mobile phone technology on the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver.

“T” propelled the growth of urban music in Canada and established himself as an innovative producer and personality during his 12 years on the air as a Muchmusic VJ. Together with his wife they’ve produced a number of properties over the past few years including Sean Paul’s “Duttyology DVD” and two stand out documentaries for Sun TV.

Craig Chivers is a multiple award winning and Gemini nominated documentary filmmaker, videojournalist and photojournalist. In addition to his own films, Craig has worked on a wide variety of documentaries and television series, both as a director and videographer. Most recently he has contributed his skills and expertise to Global National as a camera/editor in Toronto.

A grass-roots filmmaker, Hélène Choquette was a camera operator, photographer and researcher before devoting herself to her real passion: making socially relevant documentaries. Her most notable works are Marché Jean-Talon (2004), Les enfants de Tchernobyl  (2006), The Refugees of the Blue Planet (2006) and Avenue Zéro (2009). Always questioning, defying taboos, Choquette has won a number of awards.

Photography for Denis Duquette began while he was a part time student at Mount Allison University in 2001. He later enrolled in its photography program. Denis’ photography is a balance of landscape and portrait work that allows him to work in various capacities. For the last 8 years Denis has worked at Ivan’s Camera Ltd in Moncton. Catering to various photographic professionals throughout the Maritimes, the work helped him expand his own photography.

Tobie Fraser combined his cinema and photo studies with social work training, and worked for ten years with homeless populations in Montreal. In 2009 he studied directing in the documentary program at Montreal’s Institut national de l'image et du son.. He has directed a number of short films, including L’Éclat; L’Absence qu'il reste; and Pas perdus. He also works with Wapikoni mobile, an initiative to provide young Aboriginals with film and audio training.

Ottawa native Andréanne Germain likes to explore the connections between history, nationalism and identity. While attending the 2007 St-Jean-Baptiste celebrations on the Plains of Abraham, she brandished  the Franco-Ontario flag, going on to direct a series of shorts on minorities in Europe and a second series on various Francophone communities across Canada (Engage-toi, produced by the NFB). She’s currently shooting her first self-penned short fiction film in Vanier, Ontario.

Combining an expertise in sound and image production with a passion for people, Martin Girard works primarily as a radio producer with Radio-Canada. In a career spanning 20 years, he travelled extensively across Canada, producing current affairs programming for a range of radio shows. He has worked in collaboration with the noted theatre and media personality Jacques Languirand.

Dina Goldstein is a photographer who has been around long enough to remember 'film' and polaroids. She shoots portraits, editorial and commercial work but always has her own project on the go. Her latest series is the highly acclaimed Fallen Princesses. The series, represented by the Buschlen Mowatt Gallery has been published internationally. 

Born in Poland, where he received a master diploma in photography, Christopher Grabowski has exhibited in Europe and North America, winning numerous accolades, including the Western Magazine and Summit Creative Award and the Michener-Deacon Fellowship. He’s working on a photo project about the BC coastal towns in the current age of diminishing natural resources.

Marlowe Tatiana Granados lives and works in London, UK. She's currently writing and directing her first film in New York. She used to live in Toronto, where she worked as a photographer.

Brian Howell has worked as a photographer for 15 years and is currently on staff at Surrey Now. His work has appeared in Geist, Macleans, Vancouver Magazine, The Globe and Mail, and The Guardian’s weekly magazine – and is featured in the books One Ring Circus, about independent wrestling, and Fame Us: Celebrity Impersonators and the Cult(ure) of Fame.

Graduated from the University of California in Berkeley with a Rotary World Peace Fellowship, Michel Huneault has been active in the field of international development and conflict resolution for 13 years. First as a "practitioner" and then in a capacity of photoreporter, Michel has studied and worked in as many as 20 different countries, including a year spent in Kandahar. His photo work has been awarded many prizes in Canada and abroad.

Independent photographer, multi-media producer and editor – Goh Iromoto completed a BA in human geography at UBC. Blending his passion for photography with a keen interest in social issues, he’s created award-winning work for non-profit agencies like the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His press photography has earned him the Prix de la Photographie Paris for sports photojournalism.

Since she started working as a professional photographer, Dominique Lafond has published her work in magazines like Chatelaine, Urbania, and Plaisirs de vivre – earning a reputation for compelling photo-reportage, portraiture and still life photography. Her work features in books like Sacré Dépanneur!, La croûte cassée and Baguettes et fourchette : la cuisine vietnamienne au Québec.

Liam Maloney is a Montreal-born photojournalist specializing in editorial and long-term documentary work. His focus alternates between conflict reporting and rock 'n roll, dividing his time between Beirut and Mile End. A regular contributor to Maclean's newsweekly, his work has also been published in newspapers and magazines across North America, from the NY Times to SPIN magazine, and his photo essays have been exhibited internationally.

Trained as a photographer, becoming a filmmaker by chance, Dominic Morissette has travelled the globe in pursuit of the world’s cultures. He has brought back a number of documentaries, notably Les derniers chasseurs du petit havre (co-directed with Catherine Pappas, 2003) and Afghan Chronicles (2007). He has also directed a special broadcast on Afghanistan at Radio-Canada/CBC in 2008. At heart an ethnologist, he has also journeyed around Pakistan and spent time in the Indus delta and in Yemen, where he set up training workshops.

Renaud Philippe is an independent photojournalist based in Québec City. After studying journalism at Laval University, he fell in love with India and the Himalayan region, where he travelled to extensively. Along with four colleagues, he founded the photojournalism agency Stigmat Photo. A self-taught photographer, Renaud is very active, using his reporting and teaching skills for the benefit of community media and the larger community.

Tom Radford's career spans 35 years in the Canadian TV and film industries. Born to a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper family, Tom has carried on a tradition of portraying the distinctive character of the west and north to Canada and the world. Tom has won the Best Director prize at the Alberta Film Awards on 6 separate occasions, most recently in 2006 for his 2 hour special Alberta Bound. His films have won awards from Banff to Florence, leading to the Alberta Award of Excellence.

Mark Taylor is a photographer and journalist whose photos and words have appeared in The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, The New York Times and ESPN.com. Since 2007, Mark has been active in Regina’s inner city, shooting his own photos and starting a successful high school photojournalism project. Mark freelances for The Canadian Press, teaches journalism at the University of Regina and instructs a photojournalism course at the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Sciences and Technologies.

An award-winning writer, producer, host and director, Tim Wilson has produced profiles of some of the most notable figures of our time. He has also done intimate portraits of remarkable people closer to home. His recent feature documentary Griefwalker, now being distributed internationally, is produced by the NFB’s Annette Clarke. Thanks to high-speed communications, he’s able to live an artist’s dream with his family in a beautiful tidal village in rural Nova Scotia.

Marie-Claude Dupont worked successively as a writer, researcher and journalist before joining Radio-Canada, where she held various positions on news and current affairs tv programs. In 1995, she made a career switch to new media, serving as Content Director for major Web portals, and later optimizing the sites of Air Canada. From 2005 to 2009, along with Stéphan Bureau, she produced the tv documentary series Contact, which feature biographical portraits of prominent creators.

A native of St. John’s – in Canada’s Far East – Philip Lewis views the economic crisis as an opportunity to question the values and practices of the current economic system. He studied political science and journalism, and has worked in the documentary field for 15 years. His interest in charting the human dimension of economics springs in part from travels in Africa and Asia, and work experience with Oxfam-Canada.

Known for her inquiring mind, Annie Richer is perpetually on the lookout for anything liable to shed light on our world. Abroad or closer to home, her keen interest in people and society has led to her involvement in a variety of productions as a journalist and researcher. In recent years she has also produced several broadcasts, notably for radio shows Macadam tribus and Vous êtes ici.

Following studies in sociology and scriptwriting, and a period of Asian travel, Claude Lemay discovered his passion for editing. In the last ten years he has worked on over 200 productions, including two documentary series - Demain l'Espace and La Boîte noire. He’s also a musician and composer, and is part of the group Les Têtes ailleurs.

A graduate in Communications from Université du Québec à Montréal, Miguel Raymond quickly earned an enviable reputation as video artist, director and editor. For over 25 years he has created and contributed to a variety of works that have garnered awards in Canada and abroad. His passion and creativity have led him to explore the documentary genre and more recently to interactive video on the web.

Following literature and theatre studies, Nathalie Cloutier set out into the world as a participant in Radio-Canada’s La course destination monde (1998-99). While directing 4-minute films for this program, Nathalie fell in love with the documentary genre. Soon, she moved into production and since 2004 has been working as coordinator on a number of NFB films. She holds a diploma in documentary production from INIS.

Frédéric Dubois has been project manager for the NFB’s Parole citoyenne project in 2008-2009. He previously worked as information coordinator for the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) - an NGO network concerned with Internet access. Frédéric has also been a reporter and activist for independent media and has co-edited two books on the media and journalism: Autonomous Media and EXTRACTION!.

Active in the Quebec music scene for 25 years, Robert Marcel Lepage's career has offered us 11 solo CDs, hundreds of original recordings and a pedagogical music book. His most recent work was on 3 feature films by accomplished Quebec filmmakers. The work of this poyvalent musician has been rewarded with 3 Quebec Gemini Awards and the 2006 Richard Grégoire Prize for music composition of the SPACQ Foundation.