Catherine Hébert

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]

Filmography

• Tea at the Embassy (Thé à l’ambassade) - 2003
• Des mangues pour Charlotte - 2004
• Voici l'homme - 2005
• Le visage que j’avais - 2006
• The Other Side of the Country (De l'autre côté du pays) - 2007
• La longue route de Julienne - 2008
• Notes on a Road Less Taken (Carnets d'un grand détour) - 2011
• Yesterday in Nyassan (Hier à Nyassan) - 2016
• Ziva Postec: The Editor Behind the Film Shoah (Ziva Postec: La monteuse derrière le film Shoah) - 2018
• We Will Not Be Silenced (Que le silence ne l'emporte pas) - TBA