Nicolas Lachapelle is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Quebec. [1] He is most noted for his 2022 short documentary film Zug Island , which was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2023, [2] and a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024. [3]
His prior films have included Lights Above Water (Lumières sur l'eau) and What Remains When We're Gone (Le Monde après nous). [4] In 2023 he released Retour à Normétal, a sound documentary about the Quebec mining town of Normétal. [1] In 2024, he published La Chasse Interdite, a book and sound documentary following a hunting expedition in the Innu community of Pakua Shipi on the Basse-Côte-Nord. [5] The project takes the form of an art book, a photo report and a sound documentary. [5]