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In 2010, Catherine Chagnon founded Microclimat Films, a Quebec company dedicated to cinema outside the box. In 2021, Caroline Monnet’s feature Bootlegger opened the 50th Festival nouveau cinema and won the 2022 Prix Iris in the category of the Most Successful Film Outside Quebec. In 2025, Ameer Fakher Eldin’s second feature film, Yunan, coproduced with Europe and Middle East, is set to premiere in the International Competition at Berlinale 2025.
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 (Anatomy, Roberta, Keep A Modest Head, Chainreaction). In 2015, she co­produced the indigenous collective The Embargo Project, commissionned by imagineNATIVE. In 2017, she produced the feature documentary Rue de
la 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 2025, Catherine produced Yunan by the writer-director Ameer Fahker Eldin’s, a Germany – Canada – Italy coproduction, with the financial support of the Council of Europe Eurimages’ Co-production Funds, Telefilm Canada and SODEC, in collaboration with Palestine and Qatar, in association with Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Chagnon is currently in postproduction with Marie Brassard’s realism drama, The Train. The project was selected for First Look Berlin 2025, a Telefilm Canada initiative and 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.

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