Anne-Marie Rocher

Anne-Marie Rocher is a producer and director of documentary films and series. In 1993, she founded Productions Testa, based in Toronto, whose primary mission is the production of documentaries. From 1993 to 2006, she directed several award-winning films that were screened around the world, including André Markowicz, la voix d’un traducteur (1999) and Gugging (1996), about a group of Austrian artists living in a psychiatric institution. Beginning in 2006, she was head of the National Film Board of Canada’s Toronto production studio. In 2012, she resumed her work as an independent producer and filmmaker, notably with the documentary series Droit comme un F (2015), which chronicles the struggles of French-speaking minorities outside Quebec, as well as Correspondant du Grand Nord (2016) and the television series Qu’est-ce qu’on sauve? (2015). More recently, she produced and directed the feature-length documentary Urban Forests, a co-production with the NFB. In her work, she approaches her subjects with sensitivity, curiosity, and respect, offering an authentic, rigorous, and deeply principled perspective on the world.