Raised in the rust belt of Canada, Nathalie Bibeau is an award-winning filmmaker known for her artful approach to provocative stories. Her first feature film, The Walrus and the Whistleblower, won the top Audience Award at the 2020 Hot Docs International Film Festival. The film went on to play in the Winner’s Circle at DOC NYC and traveled to over twenty other festivals worldwide, winning the Best Documentary Feature Award at three of them.
In 2022, she released the four-part series, The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith, series directing and showrunning the first Amazon Original documentary series in Canada.
In previous lives, Nathalie has written for various media outlets, volunteered for War Child in Ethiopia and worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs in Lithuania. She holds a B.A. in History from McGill University and an M.A. in Russian History from the University of Toronto. She is a mother of two and is fluent in French, English and Swedish.
The Walrus and the Whistleblower
2020
Feature Documentary, 90 mins
Writer / Director / Producer
A whistleblower is sued for $1.5 million and falls down the rabbit hole of a personal quest at the heart of the movement to end marine mammal captivity.
Credits
Directed by Nathalie Bibeau
Written by Nathalie Bibeau
Produced by Frederic Bohbot and Nathalie Bibeau
A CBC Original with Bunbury Films
Cinematography Christian Bielz
Edited by Vincent Guignard
Original score by Anaïs Larocque and Raphael Reed with songs by Patrick Watson
Recognition
Top Audience Award - Hot Docs International Film Festival
Best Documentary - Forest City Film Festival
Special Jury Prize - Newburyport Film Festival
Nominee, Best Director & Best Feature Documentary - Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
Nominee, Environmental Award - Innsbruck Nature Film Festival
Nominee, Best Documentary - Oslo Film Festival
Nominee, Canadian Screen Award: Donald Brittain Award for Best Social & Political Documentary, Best Editorial Research and Best Cinematography
The Unsolved Murder of Beverly
Lynn Smith
2022
4 episodes
Series Director / Showrunner / Co-Executive Producer
An Amazon Original with Muse Entertainment
A cinematic deep dive into a well-known cold case and controversial police operation that explores the unrelenting enigma of a 50-year search for justice.
Credits
Series Directed by Nathalie Bibeau
Written by Andrea Stewart, Nathalie Bibeau
Story Editors Andrea Stewart, Tara Hughes, Sean Robb
Series Produced by Tara Jan
Associate producer Rachel Browne
Executive producer Jonas Prupas, Courtney Dobbins, Catherine Legge
Cinematography Christian Bielz
Original score by Todor Kobakov
Edited by Graeme Ball, Steve Taylor, Clark Masters, Jon Deitcher, Nick Taylor
Production Designer Brendan Callaghan
Directed by Michèle Hozer
Written by Roxana Spicer
Associate producer Nathalie Bibeau
Executive Producers Michèle Hozer, Janice Dawe
Co-executive producer Jan Rofekamp
Recognition
2015 Hot Docs
DOXA Documentary Film Festival
Winner of the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016
Sugar Coated
2015
Feature Documentary, 90 mins
Associate Producer / Digital Media Producer
How the food industry seduced the world one spoonful at a time.
Credits
UPCOMING PROJECTS
DOULA
(working title)
Planned Release: 2026
3 x 1 hr
A CBC Original with Muse Entertainment
​A Series by Nathalie Bibeau
The inconceivable saga of Kaitlyn Braun, a 25-year old social worker who called on over 40 doulas to support her through multiple traumatic pregnancies and births. With intimate access to the doulas and exclusive access to Kaitlyn Braun, Doula explores same-gender crime, the nature of empathy and the controversial question of its limitations.
GAGGED
Feature documentary
TVO
A poetic reckoning that unmasks how NDAs have quietly enabled abuse, silenced victims, and shaped our collective silence.
