Guylaine Dionne

Guylaine Dionne (born 1962) is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter from Quebec, most noted as director of the feature films The Three Madeleines (Les Fantômes des trois Madeleine) and Waitresses Wanted (Serveuses demandées).

After graduating from the film studies program at Concordia University in Montreal, she began her career making documentaries for Quebec television, before releasing The Three Madeleines as her debut feature. The film premiered in the Directors Fortnight program at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2018, Dionne and Rosanna Maule collaborated on Les Réalisatrices contemporaines : l'état des choses, a documentary about the history of women in film. Her most recent film, the documentary Jazz Club Owner, was released in 2021.

She is now a professor in the film studies program at Concordia.

Awards In 2006, she was the recipient of the Don Haig Award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.

Filmography

Film 1988 – Last Call 1989 – Les Frissons d'Agathe 2000 – The Three Madeleines (Les Fantômes des trois Madeleine) 2008 – Waitresses Wanted (Serveuses demandées) 2010 – Les Mercredis de Rose 2018 – Les Réalisatrices contemporaines : l'état des choses 2021 – Jazz Club Owner

Television 1991–1993 – Amériques 500 : À la redécouverte du nouveau monde 1994 – Les Rêves secrets des Tarahumaras d'elle-même 1998–1999 – Îles d'Inspiration 1999–2000 – Les Histoires Oubliées 2000 – Through her Eyes 2004 – Mary Shelley