Guylaine Dionne

Guylaine Dionne
Born1962
Saint-Pascal, Quebec, Canada
Occupations
  • film director
  • producer
  • screenwriter
  • professor
Notable workThe Three Madeleines, Waitresses Wanted

Guylaine Dionne (born 1962) is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter from Quebec,[1] most noted as director of the feature films The Three Madeleines (Les Fantômes des trois Madeleine)[2] and Waitresses Wanted (Serveuses demandées).[3]

After graduating from the film studies program at Concordia University in Montreal, she began her career making documentaries for Quebec television, before releasing The Three Madeleines as her debut feature.[4] The film premiered in the Directors Fortnight program at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.[5]

In 2018, Dionne and Rosanna Maule collaborated on Les Réalisatrices contemporaines : l'état des choses, a documentary about the history of women in film.[6] Her most recent film, the documentary Jazz Club Owner, was released in 2021.[7]

She is now a professor in the film studies program at Concordia.[8]

  1. ^ Janis L. Pallister et Ruth A. Hottell (2005). Francophone Women Film Directors : A Guide. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. pp. 50–52. ISBN 978-0838640463.
  2. ^ Lisa Nesselson, "The Three Madeleines". Variety, May 15, 2000.
  3. ^ "Serveuses demandées – Film de Guylaine Dionne". Films du Québec, December 16, 2008.
  4. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Fantômes des 3 Madeleine, Les – Film de Guylaine Dionne". Films du Québec, January 7, 2009.
  5. ^ "Stardom closes Cannes festival". Playback, May 1, 2000.
  6. ^ Manon Dumais, "«Réalisatrices contemporaines»: paroles de femmes". Le Devoir, July 9, 2018.
  7. ^ Bill Brownstein, "Upstairs jazz documentary next best thing to being there". Montreal Gazette, March 26, 2021.
  8. ^ Normand Provencher, "Guylaine Dionne : rêves brisés". La Presse, January 16, 2009.