Guylaine Dionne
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- Film director
- producer
- screenwriter
- professor
Guylaine Dionne | |
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.jpg) Dionne in 2018 | |
| Born | 1962 (age 63–64) Saint-Pascal, Quebec, Canada |
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| Notable work | The Three Madeleines, Waitresses Wanted |
Guylaine Dionne (born 1962) is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter from Quebec,[1] most noted as director of the feature films The Three Madeleines (Les Fantômes des trois Madeleine)[2] and Waitresses Wanted (Serveuses demandées).[3]
After graduating from the film studies program at Concordia University in Montreal, she began her career making documentaries for Quebec television, before releasing The Three Madeleines as her debut feature.[4] The film premiered in the Directors Fortnight program at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.[5]
In 2018, Dionne and Rosanna Maule collaborated on Les Réalisatrices contemporaines : l'état des choses, a documentary about the history of women in film.[6] Her most recent film, the documentary Jazz Club Owner, was released in 2021.[7]
She is now a professor in the film studies program at Concordia.[8]
In 2006, she was the recipient of the Don Haig Award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[9]
