Joëlle Desjardins Paquette
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Joëlle Desjardins Paquette | |
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| Occupation(s) | film director and screenwriter |
| Known for | the Borsos Competition award for Best Director of a Borsos Competition Film at the 2022 Whistler Film Festival |
Joëlle Desjardins Paquette is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, who won the Borsos Competition award for Best Director of a Borsos Competition Film at the 2022 Whistler Film Festival for her 2022 film Rodeo (Rodéo).[1] The film was subsequently nominated for the John Dunning Best First Feature Award at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.[2]
She previously directed a number of short films, as well as television and webseries episodes. Her 2012 short Wintergreen (Paparmane) was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list in 2012.[3]
She directed My Stepmother Is a Witch (Ma belle-mère est une sorcière), a children's film in the Tales for All series which was released in fall 2025.[4]
