Conseil d'administration
Chair
Manon Barbeau
Filmmaker and social entrepreneur
Vice-Chair
Guylaine Dionne
Film Director and teacher
Concordia University
Vice-Chair
Carolle Brabant
Retired – administrator
Secretary
Natacha Calixte
Partner
Robinson Sheppard Shapiro s.e.n.c.r.l./LLP Avocats
Treasurer
Guy Gougeon
Chairman and CEO
Les éditions Flammarion
Director
Serge Turgeon
General director
W. Maxwell
Director
Emily Paige
Producer, director and co-founder
E.D. Films
Director
Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
Director
Marcel Jean
Executive Director
Marcel Jean has been Executive Director of the Cinémathèque québécoise since May 2015, and has also been the Artistic Director of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival since 2012. He directed the documentary program at the Institut national de l’image et du son (L'inis) from 2012 to 2014. He taught criticism and film history and aesthetics at the Université de Montréal from 1986 to 2013. Mr. Jean is also the author of several works on cinema. The most recent, Le Dictionnaire des films québécois, was published by Éditions Somme toute.
From 1999 to 2005, he headed the animation studio in the National Film Board’s French-language division, where the films he produced won more than 150 international awards. He is closely involved with the cultural sector, serving as vice-president at Les éditions Les 400 coups and at Québec Cinéma. He currently serves on the board of the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership and is chair of the board at the Fantasia International Film Festival.
In June 2018, he received an honorary doctorate from Université Savoie Mont Blanc in recognition of his exceptional professional and intellectual achievements and his commitment to cinema.
Vacant
Executive Assistant
Evelyne Joseph
Director of Human Resources
ejoseph@cinematheque.qc.ca
A member of the Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines agréés (CRHA), Evelyne Joseph holds a bachelor's degree in industrial relations from the Université de Montréal, combined with more than fifteen years of professional experience in Human Resources. She has a diversified career path, which has allowed her to gain experience in the informatics, aeronautics and project management sectors, to name just a few.
Throughout her career, Evelyne has worked as a recruiter, HR consultant and HR manager.
Curious and deeply interested in the cultural and artistic world, she joined the Cinémathèque québécoise team in November 2021 as Director of Human Resources.
Isabelle Jalbert
Director Administration and Building
ijalbert@cinematheque.qc.ca
Isabelle Jalbert has long been part of the cultural scene, from her youthful experiences as an usher at the Ouimetoscope to her recent arrival at the Cinémathèque.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from UQAM, she participated in the Symposium de Baie-Saint-Paul in 1994, as well as several group and solo shows. She worked at Galerie Graff and organized a conference on Quebec’s collective printmaking studios. She left the visual arts for the performing arts, working as head of communications and media relations for Usine C until 2000. During those same years she went on tour with Carbone 14 for the final performances of Âmes mortes.
After joining the cultural advertising agency Publicité Sauvage in 2001 as a sales representative, she rose to the position of general manager. After ten years in that role, she became Vice-President and a shareholder from 2015 to 2020. Among other things, she negotiated a partnership with BAnQ for the legal deposit of posters.
Endlessly inquisitive, in 2019 she earned a double executive master of business administration (EMBA) from ESG-UQAM and Université Paris-Dauphine. She is also a member of the board of Diffusion Momentum.
Philippe Gauthier
Head of Administrative and Financial Services
pgauthier@cinematheque.qc.ca
Florian Vallot
Administrative assistant
fvallot@cinematheque.qc.ca
Gaétan Chevarie
Building Superintendent
gchevarie@cinematheque.qc.ca
Samuel Dieulangard
Head of Technical Services
sdieulangard@cinematheque.qc.ca
Vincent Franusic
IT Administrator
informatique@cinematheque.qc.ca
Louis Léonard
Audiovisual Supervisor
Noriko Okamoto
Projectionist and Audiovisual Technician
Alain Choinière
Audiovisual Technician
Léo Daoust-Mignault
Audiovisual Technician
Nagi Robert-Locas
Audiovisual Technician
Derek Reade
Projectionist
Thierry Lefèvre
Projectionist
Luc Zéphir
Messenger
Élisabeth Meunier
Director of Conservation and Development of Collections
emeunier@cinematheque.qc.ca
Nicolas Dulac
Head of Access, Valorization and Development — Collections
ndulac@cinematheque.qc.ca
David Fortin
Documentalist and Digital Mediator
dfortin@cinematheque.qc.ca
Jean-Philippe Tremblay
Access and Reproduction Manager — Collections
jptremblay@cinematheque.qc.ca
Silvia Kindl
Cheffe du service de la conservation et de la logistique
skindl@cinematheque.qc.ca
Eva Letourneau
Responsable de la conservation des films
eletourneau@cinematheque.qc.ca
Jessica Hébert
Head of Collections Documentation
jhebert@cinematheque.qc.ca
Catherine Stassin
Librarian
cstassin@cinematheque.qc.ca
Chantal Partamian
Film and Audiovisual Processing Manager
cpartamian@cinematheque.qc.ca
Maxime Dumas
Processing Technician — Acquisitions
mdumas@cinematheque.qc.ca
Véronique Boilard
Museology Technician — Collections Cataloguing
vboilard@cinematheque.qc.ca
Éric Falardeau
Audiovisual Digitization and Quality Control Technician
efalardeau@cinematheque.qc.ca
Liam Élias Jerrold
Audiovisual and Digital Processing Technician
Jérémy Brosseau
Reserves Technician
jbrosseau@cinematheque.qc.ca
Michel Martin
Legal Deposit Technician
mmartin@cinematheque.qc.ca
Nicolas Martel
Project Manager - Digital Migration and Legal Deposit Preservation
nmartel@cinematheque.qc.ca
Gregory Sides
Documentation Analyst for the Savoirs Communs du Cinéma
gsides@cinematheque.qc.ca
Julia Minne
Project Manager for the Savoirs Communs du Cinéma Initiative
jminne@cinematheque.qc.ca
AM Trépanier
Digital mediator of cinematographic heritage (Wikimedian in residence)
amtrepanier@cinematheque.qc.ca
Margot Levasseur
Museology Technician (intern)
Guillaume Lafleur
Director of Diffusion, Programming and Publications
glafleur@cinematheque.qc.ca
Since 1990, Guillaume Lafleur has published more than a hundred articles and essays on contemporary cinema, Quebec cinema history, experimental film and film aesthetics. In 2004 he received the Prix Pierre-et-Yolande-Perrault, presented by the AIEQ, for his research on documentary cinema. He holds a doctorate in comparative literature from the Université de Montréal, where he taught film history and film analysis from 2003 to 2008.
He then became more actively involved in film exhibition, first as artistic director for Antitube, then as executive and artistic director of the Daïmôn artist-run centre, where he supervised residencies, media-arts performances and a substantial program focusing on documentary and experimental film. Between 2013 and 2015 he launched and led three symposia in Gatineau and Montreal dedicated to experimental cinema and video art. He served on the boards of the Alliance des arts médiatiques indépendants (2010-2013) and the cultural magazine Spirale (2016-2019). Mr. Lafleur joined the Cinémathèque québécoise team in 2014, first as programmer-curator. He became director of programming in 2017.
In 2015, he published Pratiques minoritaires, fragments d’une histoire méconnue du cinéma québécois (1937-1973) (Varia). In 2020 he co-edited, with Ralph Elawani, XPQ, traversée du cinéma expérimental québécois (Somme toute/Cinémathèque québécoise).
Marco de Blois
Programmer-Curator, Film, Television and New Media— Animation
mdeblois@cinematheque.qc.ca
Alexandre Mingarelli
Programming Assistant
amingarelli@cinematheque.qc.ca
Marie-Douce St-Jacques
Exhibitions Manager
mdst-jacques@cinematheque.qc.ca
Apolline Caron-Ottavi
Writer — programmer
acaron-ottavi@cinematheque.qc.ca
Stéphanie Côté
Documentation and Film Restoration Manager — Collections
scote@cinematheque.qc.ca
Marie-Christine Picard
Director of Marketing and Business Partnerships
mcpicard@cinematheque.qc.ca
Marie-Christine Picard has worked in the world of auteur cinema for more than 20 years. After studying literature and film at Université Paris 3, she began her career in the distribution of art and experimental films in France, while also working on target-audience promotion of films such as Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources (Claude Berri) and Cyrano de Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau).
From the opening of Excentris in 1999 until 2009, she was in charge of the venue’s regular, event and youth film programming. She was also a programmer for Cinéma du Parc and the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. In 2009, when the Excentris theatres transitioned to new management, she joined the** Cinéma Parallèle** team as director of operations, remaining in that position until December 2015. In February 2014, she launched Canada’s first virtual online movie theatre, in partnership with the National Film Board of Canada. She joined the Cinémathèque team in February 2016.
She was an external marketing analyst for SODEC and a director of Vidéographe for four years, and currently serves on the board of Communications et Société and Voies culturelles des Faubourgs.
Julie Poitras
Rental and Special Events Manager
locations@cinematheque.qc.ca
Chantale Crépeault
Head of communications and marketing
ccrepeault@cinematheque.qc.ca
vacant
Communications and Marketing Agent
Gabrielle Loumède
Web Content and Mediation Coordinator
gloumede@cinematheque.qc.ca
Nathalie Boivin
Receptionist
nboivin@cinematheque.qc.ca
Valérie Gispalou
Manager
vgispalou@cinematheque.qc.ca
Thahee'a Al-Idrisi
Assistant-Manager
David Gaudette
Café-Bar's Assistant-Manager
Léonie Dupin
Waitress
Déborah Maarek
Waitress
Camille Ouellet
Waitress
Charles-François Asselin
Hospitality
Olivier Basquin
Hospitality
Camille Chénard
Hospitality
Léa Donsbeck
Hospitality
Maria-Luz Faddoul
Hospitality
Herminie Gautier
Hospitality
Philippe Lambert
Hospitality
Alexandre Liogier
Hospitality
Anh Amy Nguyen
Hospitality
Yohan Perron-Coté
Hospitality
Lina Sarhani
Hospitality
Felix Schaaf
Hospitality
Florian Stefanski
Hospitality
Timothée Viau
Hospitality
Kelly Wang
Hospitality