Photo credit : Kelly Jacob

Catherine Therrien

Director | Screenwriter

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

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

Awards

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

Fourchette – Season 3

2021

Webseries
Director and script consultant | Screenwriter Sarah-Maude Beauchesne
Production Attraction Images | Broadcasting Ici Tou.tv

Virage

2021

TV Series with Charlotte Aubin & Émile Schneider
Director
NOOVO | Crave

Fourchette – Season 2

2020

Webseries
Director and script consultant | Screenwriter Sarah-Maude Beauchesne
Production Attraction Images | Broadcasting ICI Touv.tv

Supernatural: History of Natural Wines

2020

TV series | 8 episodes
Director
Productions GFP | Club Illico

District 31 Season I, 2 & 3

2017-2019

Series, police thriller
Director episodes 121@324
Production: Aetios Productions (Fabienne Larouche)

Awards

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

Awards

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

Lourd

2015-2016

Co-creator | Director
Production Attraction Images | Broadcasting Vrak.tv

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

Awards

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

Awards

FESTIVALS
Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois - Official Selection, 2014

Jérémie n’a plus de batterie

2013

Short film
Director | Screenwriter | Producer

Awards

FESTIVALS
Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois 2014 - Official Selection , 2014

Voisins

2013

Web documentary on Le petit Beyrouth neighbourhood
Director | Screenwriter
Picbois Productions

Obaska

2012

Short film
Director | Co-screenwriter

Awards

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

Awards

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

Awards

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

Awards

Prix Gémeaux, web series, 2011

La main mon trésor

2009

Podcasts - 90 min.
Co-director | Editor | Writer
La Presse

Awards

Boomerang award 2009, Interactive media

Borderline

2006

Short film – documentary - 29 min
Director | Editor
Locomotion Production

Awards

Caméléon Awards - Best Documentary
Clermont-Ferrand Sélection 2006

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