Marie-Hélène Cousineau

Marie-Hélène Cousineau is a Canadian film director and producer.[1] Originally from Quebec, she moved to Igloolik, Northwest Territories (now in Nunavut) in 1991, where she became a co-founder of the filmmaking collective Arnait Video Productions.[2]

Marie-Hélène Cousineau
NationalityCanadian
Occupationfilm director, producer
Years active2000s-present
Notable work
Before Tomorrow (Le Jour avant le lendemain), Sol

Her most noted film, Before Tomorrow (Le Jour avant le lendemain), was co-directed with Madeline Ivalu and released in 2008.[3] Cousineau and Ivalu were shortlisted Genie Award nominees for Best Director, and alongside co-writer Susan Avingaq for Best Adapted Screenplay, at the 30th Genie Awards in 2010.[4] Cousineau later collaborated with Ivalu on the film Uvanga,[5] and with Avingaq on the documentary film Sol. Sol is a feature documentary, that explores the mysterious death of a young Inuit man, Solomon Uyurasuk. As the documentary investigates the truth to Solomon's death, it sheds light on the underlying social issues of Canada's North that has resulted in this region claiming one of the highest youth suicide rates in the world.

More recently, Cousineau has collaborated with Ivalu on an adaptation of Gabrielle Roy's unpublished work La Rivière sans repos, previously translated and published as Windflower.[6]

Films
  • Quilliq (1992)[7]
  • Anaana (2001)
  • Before Tomorrow (Le Jour avant le lendemain) (2008) (writer and co-director with Madeline Ivalu)
  • The Uluit: Champions of the North (2011)[8] (producer only)
  • Uvanga (2013)[9]
  • Sol (2014)[10] (co-director with Susan Avingaq and co-writer with Dana Schoel)
  • Angelique's Isle (2019)[11]
  • La rivière sans repos (Restless River) (2019) (co-directed with Madeline Ivalu)[6]

References
  1. "Cinq questions à... Marie-Hélène Cousineau". La Presse, October 18, 2013.
  2. "Igloolik, Nunavut filmmakers turn the lens on suicide". CBC North, April 23, 2014.
  3. ImagineNative 2008 : 9th Annual Film + Media Arts Festival program. 2008. p. 70.
  4. "Inuit drama nets 9 Genie nominations". CBC News, March 3, 2010.
  5. "A modern drama in traditional Nunavut hamlet". Toronto Star, June 20, 2014.
  6. Montpetit, Caroline (2019-10-22). "Dans les pas de Gabrielle Roy au Nunavik". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 2019-10-30.
  7. ERIN Research INC. for The Documentary Policy Advisory Group (2005-04-25). Breaking new ground: a framework for measuring the social impact of Canadian documentaries (PDF). pp. 34–39.
  8. The Uluit: Champions of the North, retrieved 2019-10-30
  9. Uvanga, retrieved 2019-10-30
  10. Sol, retrieved 2019-10-30
  11. Angelique's Isle, retrieved 2019-10-30


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