Tuning the Brain with Music

French Canadian writer and director she is a also a film professor and Head of the cinema and video games program of the History of Art and Cinema Department at the University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She obtained a Ph.D. in screenwriting from the University of Paris VII. She has been a guest professor in filmmaking at the universities of Amsterdam; the Sorbonne Nouvelle/Paris III , at Utrecht university and at CMS/Writing at MIT.

She has directed three fictions and four feature length documentaries and has written two features, one being a UK co-production with producer David Pearson (a suspense set in Quebec). Her documentary, Mystical Brain (National Film Board of Canada, 52 min) about sciences and religions won the “Best Science Documentary” Gémeaux Award. She has also made a documentary on male sexuality titled Histoires de zizis (Penis Stories, Radio-Canada Television, 52 min) as well as one about spirituality on a feudal island : A Man on the Isle of Sark (TV5 Canada, 52 min). Her first film, Le Minot d’Or (Blue Potatoes, Radio-Canada, 52 min) won the Jutra Award for Best Documentary as well as two Gémeaux Award for “Best Editing” and “Best Original Music.” In 2016 she directed her first VR film «Hearing Poetry in Motion in Harvard Yard» presented at the «Virtually There: Documentary Meets VR» conference at MIT. She is a Fellow at the Open Documentary Lab at MIT.