Conseil d'administration
Chair
Manon Barbeau
Filmmaker and social entrepreneur
Vice-Chair
Carolle Brabant
Retired – administrator
Vice-Chair
Claude Joli-Cœur
Retired
Secretary
Carolle Brabant
Retired – administrator
Treasurer
Guy Gougeon
Chairman and CEO
Les éditions Flammarion
Director
Fabien St-Jacques
Bookseller
Director
Emily Paige
Producer, director and co-founder
E.D. Films
Director
Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
Director
Director
Christian Bolduc
LL.B., ASC, C.Dir, CFRE President
BNP Inspire
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.
Laurine Pierrefiche
Executive Assistant
lpierrefiche@cinematheque.qc.ca
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
Jean-François Proulx
Administrative assistant
jfproulx@cinematheque.qc.ca
Gaétan Chevarie
Building Superintendent
gchevarie@cinematheque.qc.ca
Stéphane Laferrière
Head of Technical Services
slaferriere@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
Timothée Viau
Audiovisual Technician
Derek Reade
Projectionist
Thierry Lefèvre
Projectionist
Patrick Bouchard
Maintenance and Facility Preparation Attendant
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
Eva Létourneau
Film and Audiovisual Conservation Manager
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
Valérie Lafrance
Audiovisual and Digital Processing Technician
vlafrance@cinematheque.qc.ca
Olivier Spooner
Museology Technician – Collection Circulation
ospooner@cinematheque.qc.ca
Michel Martin
Legal Deposit Technician
mmartin@cinematheque.qc.ca
Nicolas Martel
Production and digital preservation manager
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
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
Jérôme Michaud
Programming Assistant
jmichaud@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
Restoration Project Manager
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
Nicky Lamontagne
Communications and Marketing Agent
nlamontagne@cinematheque.qc.ca
Gabrielle Loumède
Web Content and Mediation Coordinator
gloumede@cinematheque.qc.ca
Ophélie Lemay
Mediation Project Manager
olemay@cinematheque.qc.ca
Nathalie Boivin
Receptionist
nboivin@cinematheque.qc.ca
Valérie Gispalou
Manager
vgispalou@cinematheque.qc.ca
Thahee'a Al-Idrisi
Assistant-Manager
Maria-Luz Faddoul
Assistant-Manager
Truc Nguyen-Quang
On-call Assistant-Manager
Alice Dubost
On-call Assistant-Manager
Déborah Maarek
Café-Bar's Assistant-Manager
Léonie Dupin
Waitress
Catherine Larose
Waitress
Camille Ouellet
Waitress
Laurence Arvisais
Hospitality
Charles-François Asselin
Hospitality
Olivier Basquin
Hospitality
Anna Bonello
Hospitality
Rokiya Ekoué
Hospitality
Jules Gauthier
Hospitality
Alexandre Liogier
Hospitality
Anh Amy Nguyen
Hospitality
Edouard Paquin
Hospitality
Lina Sarhani
Hospitality
Felix Schaaf
Hospitality