Catherine Therrien
Director | Screenwriter | Script Editor
Catherine Therrien is a writer and a director. As an author, she collaborated for a long time with Urbania magazine by signing different stories. She has also published her first short story in VLB Publishers. Catherine was also one of 20 authors nominated for the CBC Radio News Award 2017. She came up with her web documentary Le bruit des mots (The Sound of Words), about the impact of slam and poetry on adolescence. For television, she signed Lourd (Heavy), for VRAK, and she is the director of the series District 31, on Radio-Canada winner of Prix Gémeaux Best Director 2019, afterward Supernatural: History of Natural Wines (2020) and Virage (2021). For the Web, she directed the series Fourchette – 3 Saisons (Ici Tou.tv) which received 5 Gémeaux Award nominations including Best Director. In 2022, Catherine participates in the production of TV Series CEREBRUM 2.
For the cinema, she prsented the short films Jérémie n’a plus de batterie (Jérémie has no longer batteries), Obaska, Encore Fiancés (Still Engaged) and Saucisson (premiered at KINO 2017). Her first feature film Une Révision (2021), the first shot under COVID-19 conditions in Quebec, opened Cinémania 2021 and was selected for Angoulême Official Competition.
Catherine is currently working on her next feature film, Mademoiselle Saturday Soir (Caramel Films).
Television | Filmography | Web
Mademoiselle Samedi Soir
In development
Feature film | Cinematographic adaptation of the novel The Girl who was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neil
Director and screenwriter with Rose-Marie Perreault
Productions Caramel Films
Nicolet
In development
TV Series
Director | Screnwriters Éric K. Boulianne& Marc-Antoine Rioux
micro_scope Productions
CEREBRUM 2
2022
TV Series
Director
Production Sphère Média | Broadcasting Ici Radio-Canada télé & Ici tout.tv Extra
Une Révision (The Review)
2021
Feature film
Director
Production Cinémaginaire | Distribution Les Films Seville
*First feature film shot during COVID-19
FESTIVALS
Cinémania – Opening Act of the Films Festival November 2021
Festivals de Films Francophone d'Angoulême (France) - Official Competition, 2021
Festival du Film Francophone de Tübingen-Stuttgart (Germany), Official Competition
Festival Plurielles (France) 2021
Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois - Budding Jury Prize - Catherine Therrien for Best Fiction Feature of the Quebec Cinema Lab Selection 2022
Fred a Faim (Fred Is Hungry)
In development
Feature film
Director & co-screenwriter
Encore fiancés (Still Engaged)
In development
Short film
Director | Co-screenwriter
District 31 Season I, 2 & 3
2017-2019
Series, police thriller
Director episodes 121@324
Production: Aetios Productions (Fabienne Larouche)
34th Gémeaux Awards – Winner of 7 awards, including Best Director (Catherine Therrien) daily drama series “Épisode 312” Montreal 2019
33rd Gémeaux Awards – Nominated for Best Director drama “Épisode 141”, Montréal 2018
Fourchette – Season 1
2019
Webseries
Director and script consultant | Screenwriter Sarah-Maude Beauchesne
Production Attraction Images | Broadcasting ICI Tou.tv
34th Gémeaux Awards – 5 nominations, including Best director webserie or digital media, drama “Épisode 2”, 2019
Saucisson
2017
Short film | gastronomic tragedy
Director & screenwriter
Premiered at Gala KINO 2017
Deux Hommes en Or
2014
Director VL
Production LP8
Génération Inc
2013-2014
Director
O’Dandy Médias (V télé)
Lourd
2013
Web series
Creator | Director
Production Attraction Images | Broadcasting Vrak.tv
Prix Gémeaux – Finalist: Best Original Program or Series Produced for Digital Media: Fiction & Best Actress (Elisabeth Smith), 2014
Prize for the best web series, Alliance Médias Jeunesse gala, 2014
Jury Prize, Youth program Webfestival of La Rochelle, 2014
Prix Gémeaux – Finalist: Best fictional web series, 2013
Champlain
2013
Short film documentary about Champlain Charest
Director | Screenwriter
FESTIVALS
Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois - Official Selection, 2014
Jérémie n’a plus de batterie
2013
Short film
Director | Screenwriter | Producer
FESTIVALS
Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois 2014 - Official Selection , 2014
Obaska
2012
Short film
Director | Co-screenwriter
Regard sur le court-métrage du Saguenay – Official Selection, 2012
Le bruit des mots
2012
Webdocumentary - 85 min
Director | Screenwriter | Editor
Radio-Canada & Picbois Productions
Official selection at Doc Market, Vision du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland, 2012
Official honoree, Webby Awards, catégorie «Documentary: individual episod», 2012
Most Interesting Digital Video Project, 2012 Filminteractive Festival, Poland, 2012
Gémeaux Award Best Webdocumentary, 2012
Hors d’ondes
2012
Web series - 10 x 10 min
Director
Turbulent
Prix Gémeaux - Finalist for interactive web series , 2012
La course Évasion autour du monde
2012
Video journalist | Évasion Channel
Deux steamés
2010 – 2011
Web series - 20 x 5 min
Director | Editor
Toxa
Prix Gémeaux, web series, 2011
La main mon trésor
2009
Podcasts - 90 min.
Co-director | Editor | Writer
La Presse
Boomerang award 2009, Interactive media
Borderline
2006
Short film – documentary - 29 min
Director | Editor
Locomotion Production
Caméléon Awards - Best Documentary
Clermont-Ferrand Sélection 2006