Françoise Dugré

Françoise Dugré lives in Bic, in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, and has been dedicated to media arts for nearly 40 years. She has a university background in cinema and art history. Throughout her career, she has been involved with several organizations, including Vidéo Femmes, Vidéographe, and the Coop Vidéo de Montréal, in addition to co-founding Paraloeil, a cinema and production center established in Rimouski. Early in her career, she worked on fictional films as a script supervisor and assistant director, and later as a researcher and assistant director in documentary filmmaking. She has also served as a researcher and curator for video art at various museums and galleries, in addition to creating video installations. Françoise Dugré has taught cinema at Cégep de Rimouski and, for ten years, taught documentary filmmaking at the School of Cinema and Video Trades at Cégep de Rivière-du-Loup. She is a multi-talented individual who is socially engaged, passionate about regional and community issues, and interested in visual arts, science, and heritage. She has directed several documentaries on art (Traces, Métal, La cité renversée, Sullivan, Interscop, Art et Nature), short video clips, and two co-directed films with Johanne Fournier (C’est une bonne journée and Le sourire d’une parfumeuse), as well as various documentaries (On a not’quota, Saint Gabriel de force, Une pointe d’histoire, Anicinabe, La chasse aux papillons, Ballast balade pour dinoflagellés). She continues her documentary practice today.