Marie-Pascale Laurencelle

Marie-Pascale Laurencelle was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She has worked mostly on television documentaries such as the praised series on poverty, «Naufragés des Villes» for which she merits herself alongside Marc St-Onge, Vali Fugulin and Stéphane Landry a co-directing Gémeaux Prize in 2011 (Montreal, Quebec). Later on, she dives into the world of Creation through the eyes of Artists who are also Mothers, with the documentary «Impulses», co-written with actress Geneviève Rioux, for which the film wins an Audience Award for the Best Feature Documentary at the Brooklyn Girl Film Festival in 2013. In 2014, she's nominated again for the best Feature Documentary at the Gémeaux Prize for her TV documentary on the Famous Quebecer Impersonator Véronic Dicaire. More recently, she's written and directed both a documentary series on families created through Adoption with «Bonheur d'Adoption 1st & 2nd part» and a long feature documentary on the rising phenomenon of violence amongst teenage girls in their everyday life, with «#Bitch, les filles et la violence» (original idea from Jasmin Roy).