Nathalie Saint-Pierre is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. [1] She is most noted for her 2012 film Catimini , for which she received Jutra Award nominations for Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Editing at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014. [2]
A graduate of the business administration program at the Université du Québec à Montréal, she learned the film business by taking an administrative job with the film studio Les Films de l’autre. [3] She directed two short films, L’Abîme appelle l’abîme (1996) and Quand j’ai eu trente ans ou comment j’ai viré su’ l’top (2001), [3] before releasing her debut film Ma voisine danse le ska in 2003. [4]
Catimini premiered at the 2012 Angoulême Francophone Film Festival, [5] before opening commercially in January 2013. [6]
Her third feature film, On Earth as in Heaven (Sur la terre comme au ciel), premiered at the 2023 Cinemania film festival. [7]