Catherine Hébert
Catherine Hébert is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Quebec.
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.
She first became widely known for The Other Side of the Country , which premiered at the 2007 Montreal International Documentary Festival. It was the winner of the Prix du Public at RIDM,. and received a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Documentary Film at the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009.
In 2011, her film Notes on a Road Less Taken won the Grand Prize for Canadian documentaries at RIDM.
Ziva Postec: The Editor Behind the Film Shoah premiered at RIDM in 2018, and received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Documentary film at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020.
Hébert and Elric Robichon co-directed the forthcoming documentary film We Will Not Be Silenced , a profile of writers in exile who use their art as a tool of activism and resistance.
Filmography
- Tea at the Embassy – 2003
- Des mangues pour Charlotte – 2004
- Voici l'homme – 2005
- Le visage que j’avais – 2006
- The Other Side of the Country – 2007
- La longue route de Julienne – 2008
- Notes on a Road Less Taken – 2011
- Yesterday in Nyassan – 2016
- Ziva Postec: The Editor Behind the Film Shoah – 2018
- We Will Not Be Silenced – TBA