Guylaine Dionne

Guylaine Dionne is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter from Quebec, most noted as director of the feature films The Three Madeleines and Waitresses Wanted .
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. The film premiered in the Directors Fortnight program at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2018, Dionne and Rosanna Maule collaborated on Les Réalisatrices contemporaines : l'état des choses, a documentary about the history of women in film. Her most recent film, the documentary Jazz Club Owner, was released in 2021.
She is now a professor in the film studies program at Concordia.

Awards

In 2006, she was the recipient of the Don Haig Award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.

Filmography

Film

1988 – Last Call
1989 – Les Frissons d'Agathe
2000 – The Three Madeleines
2008 – Waitresses Wanted
2010 – Les Mercredis de Rose
2018 – Les Réalisatrices contemporaines : l'état des choses
2021 – ''Jazz Club Owner''

Television

1991–1993 – Amériques 500 : À la redécouverte du nouveau monde
1994 – Les Rêves secrets des Tarahumaras d'elle-même
1998–1999 – Îles d'Inspiration
1999–2000 – Les Histoires Oubliées
2000 – Through her Eyes
2004 – ''Mary Shelley''