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Paul Barbeau | |
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 Paul Barbeau, Quebec City Film Festival 2012 | |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Film Producer |
Paul Barbeau is a Canadian film producer. [1]
Director of independent films and producer of films like Romeo Eleven, Pieces of a Woman and Woman of the Hour. [2]
Barbeau produced more than 700 music videos for international artists such as (Celine Dion, Arcade Fire, Daniel Lanois, Tragically Hip, ) with NúFilms [3] which he founded with Bernard Nadeau, Stéphane Raymond and Jean-François Lord in May 2000. After several MuchMusic Video Awards, [4] Victoires de la Musique and Grammy Award [5] [6] nominations, NuFilms ends production due to the financial impacts of illegal downloading of music during Napster's surge. [7] [8] This inspires him to write and direct his 1st feature, Après la neige, [9] [8] which premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival. [10]
Under Reprise Films, Barbeau produces six Canadian features including Demain, Jo for Jonathan) [11] directed by Maxime Giroux, with the latter having its world premiere at the 2010 Locarno International Film Festival. [12] [13] and Roméo Onze directed by Ivan Grbovic, (TIFF, KVIFF).
His 2nd film as writer/director We Have Forever premiered in Official Competition at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (IFFMH) also winning Best Director award at the Tallahassee Film Festival. [14]
His third feature as writer/director We Had It Coming , had its International premiere at the Prague International Film Festival in 2020. [15] Starring Natalie Krill, recipient of the Stars to Watch prize at the Whistler Film Festival. [16]
In recent years, Barbeau's focus has mainly shifted from directing to producing star-driven American feature films, co-producing films like Pieces of a Woman [17] and To Catch a Killer [18] and most recently, Executive Producer on Woman of the Hour, [19] directed by and starring Anna Kendrick.