Guylaine Dionne

Guylaine Dionne has been working steadily in the film and television industry since 1991 She graduated with honours in cinema from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema of Concordia University where she has being teaching since 2000 Dionne also graduated with a Masters in Cinema from the Universit de Strasbourg in France She began directing documentaries but in 2004 Dionne directed the featurelength television documentary iMary Shelleyi which was invited in competition at the LrsquoEncre lrsquocran film festival in Tours France where it won the ldquoLanterna Magicardquo Prize for Best Documentary Her first independent feature film iLes Fantmes des trois Madeleinei was selected by the Directors Fortnight and had its World Premiere at the 2000 Cannes International Film Festival This was followed by an international tour of prestigious festivals in Portugal Korea Belgium Italy and Canada iLes Fantmes des trois Madeleinei received the following awards Grand Prize at the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival Portugal the Don Quijote Award from the European Federation of CineClubs and Special Mention from the international Critics Jury of the FIPRESCI Dionne received the 2006 Don Haig Award in celebration of her work as a creator both in fiction and in documentary filmbrbrAlso see a hrefhttpwwwnorthernstarscainsearchofthelostfatherIn Search of the Lost Fatherabrbrbr