Catherine Hébert
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Catherine Hébert is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Quebec.[1]
After graduating with degrees in communications from the Université du Québec à Montréal and journalism from the Université Laval, Hébert travelled to Africa, where she began her documentary filmmaking career.[2]
She first became widely known for The Other Side of the Country (De l'autre côté du pays),[3] which premiered at the 2007 Montreal International Documentary Festival.[4] It was the winner of the Prix du Public at RIDM,.[5] and received a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Documentary Film at the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009.[6]
In 2011, her film Notes on a Road Less Taken (Carnets d'un grand détour) won the Grand Prize for Canadian documentaries at RIDM.[7]
Ziva Postec: The Editor Behind the Film Shoah (Ziva Postec: La monteuse derrière le film Shoah) premiered at RIDM in 2018,[8] and received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Documentary film at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020.[9]
Hébert and Elric Robichon co-directed the forthcoming documentary film We Will Not Be Silenced (Que le silence ne l'emporte pas), a profile of writers in exile who use their art as a tool of activism and resistance.[10]
