Guillaume Lonergan

Born in Montreal in 1972, Guillaume Lonergan is a Canadian filmmaker who since 2010 has mainly worked on television series for teenagers in Quebec and Canada. Recently, he directed 24 episodes of the hit series Big Top Academy for Discovery Kids Latin America and TVO kids. He is known in Quebec for directing 5 seasons of Vrak La Vie, a comedy series about 4 crazy friends in a typical Quebec high school. The show as won many awards and nominations, and was voted in 2013 & 2014 the most popular show for teenagers in Quebec. In 2012 he directed the interactive fiction series Émilie, which won many Awards around the world and was also distributed as a feature film. Guillaume Lonergan as also worked as a filmmaking teacher, specifically with teenagers in First Nations communities in Quebec with the Wapikoni Mobile Corporation, and as directed and produced many documentaries on the situation of First Nations in urban centers in Canada. During his career, he as worked on a vast variety of genre and types of productions: the opening film of the permanent exhibition at The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, Music Videos (Karkwa, Samian), Dance films (Rubberbandance group), Interactive Games (Mars 2030 for the Science Center of Montreal), short fiction films shown in International Film Festivals, and as worked on many documentary series in Canada.