NATHALIE BIBEAUFilmmaker
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  • Hot Docs Audience Award 2020
  • Newburyport Documentary Film Festival 2020
  • DOC NYC 2020
  • FIN Stream 2020
  • Buffalo International Film Festival 2020
  • CIFF Official Selection
  • Forest City Film Festival 2020
  • Nominee
  • DOXA Documentary Film Festival 2020
  • Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2020
  • Hot Docs 2020
  • Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival 2020

Nathalie Bibeau is an award-winning filmmaker known for her empathetic approach to storytelling. Her feature documentary, The Walrus and the Whistleblower, won the Top Audience Award at the 2020 Hot Docs International Film Festival and played in the Winners' Circle at DOC NYC. It was nominated for three Canadian Screen Awards 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 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 Intellectual 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

The Walrus and the Whistleblower

2020

Feature Documentary

Writer / Director / Producer

A CBC Original with Bunbury Films

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
  • Cinematography Christian Bielz
  • Edited by Vincent Guignard
  • Original score Anaïs Larocque and Raphael Reed (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 AwardInnsbruck 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

The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith

2022

4 x 1hr.

Series Director / Showrunner / Co-Executive Producer

An Amazon Original with Muse Entertainment

A cinematic study of a controversial cold case that explores the unrelenting enigma of a 50-year search for justice.

Credits

  • Series Directed by Nathalie Bibeau
  • Written by Andrea Stewart, Nathalie Bibeau
  • Series Produced by Tara Jan
  • Story Editors Andrea Stewart, Tara Hughes, Sean Robb, Brooks Gray
  • Associate Producer Rachel Browne
  • Executive Producers 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
Sugar Coated

Sugar Coated

2015

Feature Documentary

Associate Producer / Digital Media Producer

How the food industry seduced the world one spoonful at a time.

Credits

  • Directed & Edited by Michèle Hozer
  • Written by Roxana Spicer
  • Associate Producer Nathalie Bibeau
  • Executive Producers Michèle Hozer, Janice Dawe
  • Co-Executive Producer Jan Rofekamp

Recognition

  • Winner, Canadian Screen Award – Donald Brittain Award for Best Social & Political Documentary
  • Nominee, Canadian Screen Award – Best Editorial Research, Best Visual Research

UPCOMING PROJECTS

Lost Boy

Planned Release: 2027

Feature Documentary

A CBC Original with the NFB and Muse Entertainment

A Film by Nathalie Bibeau

The disappearance of a young boy draws an army of Internet sleuths that puts his parents in the crosshairs, turns the family on itself, and reveals what we’ve become in the true crime era.

Based on the article in WIRED Magazine, Rain Boots, Turning Tides and the Search for a Missing Child by Katherine Laidlaw.

Lost Boy

Doula (working title)

Planned Release: 2026

3 × 1hr

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 both the victims and the perpetrator, Doula explores same-gender crime, the nature of empathy and the controversial question of its limitations.

Doula

Gagged

Planned Release: 2027

Feature documentary

TVO / Knowledge Network

A Film by Nathalie Bibeau

A poetic reckoning that unmasks how NDAs have quietly enabled abuse, silenced victims, and shaped our collective silence.

Featuring a live case that will break in the film, Gagged is a story about secrets and what happens to us all when the wrong ones are forced to be kept.

Gagged