Catherine Legault

Catherine Legault is a Canadian film editor and director from Quebec.^[1] She is most noted for her work on the film Family Demolition (La démolition familiale), for which she won the Prix Iris for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 19th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2017.^[2]

As a director, she made her debut in 2019 with Sisters: Dream & Variations (Sœurs: Rêve et variations), a portrait of two Canadian visual artists undertaking a creative trip to Iceland.^[3] She followed up in 2024 with Larry (They/Them) (Larry (iel)), a portrait of photographer Laurence Philomène.^[4]

Filmography

• Touched by Water - 2006
• Le doigt dans l'oeil - 2007
• Travelling Light: Artists on the Move - 2008
• pilgrIMAGE - 2009
• Des ailes aux talons - 2010
• Hand to Hand - 2010
• Le monde en coulisse - 2011
• A Modern Castle - 2011
• Léo - 2011
• The Avenuers - 2011
• Fair Sex (Les Manèges humains) - 2012
• Mort subite d'un homme-théâtre - 2012
• Floating Body - 2012 (editor and director)
• The Invisible Red Thread - 2012
• Crossing Victoria - 2013
• Au-delà de l'image: Le monde de Michel Lemieux et Victor Pilon - 2014
• Vivre selon Marguerite - 2014
• The Wandering Muse - 2014
• Family Demolition (La démolition familiale) - 2015
• Kurdistan, de gré ou de force - 2015
• Rebels on Pointe - 2017
• My Mother's Letters (Les lettres de ma mère) - 2017
• My Yiddish Papi - 2017
• Exile to the Far West (Éxil au Far West) - 2017
• The Sisters Bedroom (La Chambre des filles) - 2018
• Sisters: Dream & Variations (Sœurs: Rêve et variations) - 2019 (editor and director)
• Fanny: The Right to Rock - 2021
• Chiliheads (Chiliheads, fous de piments forts) - 2021
• Aiguille sous roche - 2021
• Larry (They/Them) (Larry (iel)) - 2024 (editor and director)

Awards

Award	Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
Prix Iris	2017	Best Editing in a Documentary	Family Demolition (La démolition familiale)	Won	[2]
	2019		My Mother's Letters (Les lettres de ma mère)	Nominated	[5]
	2022		Fanny: The Right to Rock	Nominated	[6]