Louise Archambault

Screenwriter and director, Louise Archambault made her debut with the internationally acclaimed film Atomic Saké, winning many prizes such as the Jutra for Best Short Film. Her first feature film Familia gained many international sales and prizes such as Best Canadian First Feature Film at TIFF and received a Genie Award for a first film. In addition to directing episodes of the TV series La Galère (2013), Nouvelle Adresse (2014), broadcast on Radio-Canada, and This Life (2015), for CBC, Louise launched her 2nd film Gabrielle at the Locarno International Film Festival (Audience Award). The film, selected to represent Canada at the Oscars and the Golden Globes in 2014, won many international prizes and was sold in more than 24 different territories. Louise was named Personality of the Year by La Presse/Ici Radio-Canada, in the arts and entertainment category. Since 2016, Louise directed 3 seasons of the TV series TROP, for Radio-Canada as well as 3 seasons of the TV series Catastrophe, which won the Best Script Format prize at the 2018 in Cannes. In 2019, Louise released two feature films, Il pleuvait des oiseaux (And the Birds Rained Down), premiered at TIFF, and won various awards such as Best International Feature at the Göteborg film Festival; and her film Merci pour tout (Thanks for everything) was released Dec 25, 2019. These films got both considerable box office, ranking respectively 2nd and 3rd position in Canada. Louise just finished shooting the tv series Survivre à ses enfants, a comedy for Radio-Canada.