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== Film Career ==
== Film Career ==
=== Documentaries ===
=== Documentaries ===
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette started her film career as a documentary director. Following a year spent in Honduras<ref>{{cite web|title=ANAÏS BARBEAU-LAVALETTE|url=http://www.informactionfilms.com/en/directors/anais-barbeau-lavalette.php|website=www.informactionfilms.com|publisher=InformAction}}</ref>, Barbeau-Lavalette directed Les Petits princes des bidonvilles (2000), which followed young Hondurans growing up in Montreal<ref>{{cite web|last1=Nick|first1=Dawson|title=Five Questions with Inch’Allah Director Anais Barbeau-Lavalette|url=http://filmmakermagazine.com/51528-five-questions-with-inchallah-director-anais-barbeau-lavalette/#.Vj_6MUvjPwI|website=http://filmmakermagazine.com|publisher=FilmMaker|accessdate=7 November 2015}}</ref>. and Si j'avais un chapeau (2005).
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette started her film career as a documentary director. Following a year spent in Honduras<ref>{{cite web|title=ANAÏS BARBEAU-LAVALETTE|url=http://www.informactionfilms.com/en/directors/anais-barbeau-lavalette.php|website=www.informactionfilms.com|publisher=InformAction}}</ref>, Barbeau-Lavalette directed Les Petits princes des bidonvilles (2000), which followed young Hondurans growing up in Montreal<ref>{{cite web|last1=Nick|first1=Dawson|title=Five Questions with Inch’Allah Director Anais Barbeau-Lavalette|url=http://filmmakermagazine.com/51528-five-questions-with-inchallah-director-anais-barbeau-lavalette/#.Vj_6MUvjPwI|website=http://filmmakermagazine.com|publisher=FilmMaker|accessdate=7 November 2015}}</ref>. In 2002, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette represented Canada in the United Nation’s Volunteers' Odyssey (Odyssée du voluntarist), in which she traveled the world creating 15 short documentaries on the theme of volunteerism.<ref>{{cite web|title=ANAÏS BARBEAU-LAVALETTE|url=http://www.micro-scope.ca/en/creation/anais_barbeau_lavalette.html|publisher=micro-scope|accessdate=22 October 2015}}</ref> On her return, Barbeau-Lavalette directed more documentaries, including the features Si j'avais un chapeau (2005), which detailed the lives of children across four different countries, and Tap-Tap, a "poetic portrait of Montreal’s Haitian community."<ref>{{cite web|title=ANAÏS BARBEAU-LAVALETTE|url=http://www.micro-scope.ca/en/creation/anais_barbeau_lavalette.html|publisher=Micro_Scope|accessdate=8 November 2015}}</ref>
=== Features ===
=== Features ===
=== Short Films ===
=== Short Films ===

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Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (born 1979) is a Canadian actress, film director, and screenwriter from Quebec. Her films are known for their “organic, participatory feel[1]”. Barbeau-Lavalette is the daughter of filmmaker Manon Barbeau and cinematographer Philippe Lavalette, and the granddaughter of artist Marcel Barbeau. She is best known to international audiences for her award-winning 2012 film Inch'Allah.


Early Life

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette was born on February 8, 1979, in Montreal, the daughter of Manon Barbeau, a filmmaker and director, and Philip Lavalette, a cinematographer. Anais Barbeau-Lavalette is an only child. She is the granddaughter of the Canadian artist Marcel Barbeau, who studied under Paul-Émile Borduas and is known for being one of the first non-figurative painters in Canada.[2] Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette is a Québec native. As a young adult, Barbeau-Lavalette lived and studied in the heavily disputed West Bank area.[3]

Education

In 2000 after finishing her first full length documentary, Les Petits princes des bidonvilles (2000), Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette enrolled at Université de Montréal, where she majored in International Studies. She than went on to study film production at INIS. Following her time at INIS, Barbeau-Lavalette travelled to Ramallah, Palestine to attend Birzeit University.[4]

Film Career

Documentaries

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette started her film career as a documentary director. Following a year spent in Honduras[5], Barbeau-Lavalette directed Les Petits princes des bidonvilles (2000), which followed young Hondurans growing up in Montreal[6]. In 2002, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette represented Canada in the United Nation’s Volunteers' Odyssey (Odyssée du voluntarist), in which she traveled the world creating 15 short documentaries on the theme of volunteerism.[7] On her return, Barbeau-Lavalette directed more documentaries, including the features Si j'avais un chapeau (2005), which detailed the lives of children across four different countries, and Tap-Tap, a "poetic portrait of Montreal’s Haitian community."[8]

Features

Short Films

  1. ^ Jimmy, Johnson. "Palestinians denied a voice in Canadian film set in West Bank". https://electronicintifada.net. The Electronic Intifada. Retrieved 1 November 2015. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  2. ^ "Marcel Barbeau". canadianart.ca. Canadian Art. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Toronto: 'Inch'Allah' Director Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette On Her Politically Charged Drama". Indie Wire. Indie Wire. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  4. ^ "ANAÏS BARBEAU-LAVALETTE". http://www.informactionfilms.com. InformAction. Retrieved 3 November 2015. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  5. ^ "ANAÏS BARBEAU-LAVALETTE". www.informactionfilms.com. InformAction.
  6. ^ Nick, Dawson. "Five Questions with Inch'Allah Director Anais Barbeau-Lavalette". http://filmmakermagazine.com. FilmMaker. Retrieved 7 November 2015. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  7. ^ "ANAÏS BARBEAU-LAVALETTE". micro-scope. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  8. ^ "ANAÏS BARBEAU-LAVALETTE". Micro_Scope. Retrieved 8 November 2015.