Team

Founded in 2010 by producer Catherine Chagnon, Microclimat Films is a Quebec company dedicated to cinema outside the box. Released by Sphere Films in 2021, Bootlegger won the 2022 Prix Iris in the category of the Most Successful Film Outside Quebec.
Catherine Chagnon

In 2010, Catherine Chagnon founded the production company Microclimat Films. Focused on producing innovative projects, she has been involved in numerous productions and co­productions (AnatomyKeep A Modest HeadRobertaChainreaction). In 2015, she co­produced the indigenous collective The Embargo Project, commissionned by imagineNATIVE. In 2017, she produced the feature documentary Rue dela Victoire, with a world premiere at Hot Docs and an international premiere at El Gouna Festival in Egypt. In 2018, she produced the film-concert The Seven Last Words with a world premiere at Rotterdam 2019 in the Bright Future programme. That same year, her company received support from SODEC for its interactive production activities. The innovative nature of her proposal and the strength of the partners she joins forces with are highlighted. In 2019, Catherine produced the immersive film Free Fall by Dana Gingras, created in residence at the Society for Arts and Technology and distributed internationally by Diversion Cinema. In 2021, she produced Bootlegger, Caroline Monnet’s first feature film. The film opened the 50th edition of the Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal and received the Prix Iris in the category of the Most Successful Film Outside Quebec. In 2024, Catherine produced Yunan by the Syrian writer-director Ameer Fahker Eldin’s, a coproduction Germany – Canada – Italie, with the financial support of the Council of Europe Eurimages’ Co-production Funds, in collaboration with Palestine, Qatar, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. She is currently in postproduction with Marie Brassard’s realism drama, The Train. The project was selected for the 2019 Netflix – BANFF Diversity of Voices Initiative. Chagnon is an alumnus of the TIFF Talent Lab 2011, Rotterdam Lab 2012, OMDC International Financing Forum 2015, CineMart 2016, Berlinale Co­Production Market 2016, and BoostNL 2016. Since August 2020, Chagnon has lived and worked in Glen Sutton, Quebec.