Nadine Valcin

Nadine Valcin is an award-winning producer, director, and screenwriter. She directs and produces shows, television magazines, documentaries and cinematographic works which have been broadcast on CBC, CBC News Network, TVO, W, Artv, Réseau de l’information (RDI), Société Radio-Canada ( SRC), TFO, as well as TV One and the History Network in the United States.

Among her productions for the National Film Board of Canada, there are the documentaries Black, Bold and Beautiful, A School Without Borders, and When is Justice. In 2016, her experimental short film Heartbreak was one of 20 finalists from over 1,700 submissions at the Toronto International Film Festival’s inaugural TIFFxInstagram Shorts Fest. The filmmaker now tackles fiction. She has directed three short films and is currently developing two feature-length fiction films, as well as The Ghosts of Memory, a virtual reality experience on the forgotten history of slavery in Canada.

Nadine is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including two Chalmers artistic research grants and the National Screen Institute Drama Prize for the bilingual short film Entre deux/In Between. She holds a professional degree in architecture from McGill University and has participated in the Doc Lab, Women in the Director’s Chair and National Screen Institute workshops. She was artist-in-residence at York University’s Osgoode Law School for the 2015-2016 academic year and the recipient of the 2016 DGC Ontario Mentorship – a mentoring program from Women in Film and Television (Toronto) and the Directors Guild of Canada.