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Loumède Colette
Producer, Quebec Studio
French Program
Colette Loumède has over 20 years' experience in film and television production. She worked with the Coopérative de Production Vidéoscopique de Montréal in a variety of creative and production positions before joining Productions du Regard and Synercom Téléproductions, with whom she produced the series La culture dans tous ses états. She was subsequently hired as a project manager by the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC).
Between 2002 and 2007, she was an executive producer at the National Film Board of Canada's French Program, where she developed numerous partnerships with Canadian and international production companies and produced over 30 documentaries, primarily auteur works.
Many of these documentaries have won awards. The Memories of Angels (2008) by Luc Bourdon received the Focus - Cinémathèque québécoise Grand Prize at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal and was a finalist at the FOCAL International Awards in London and at the Jutras. The Invisible Nation (2007) by Richard Desjardins and Robert Monderie received the Gémeaux Award for Best Social Documentary and the Jutra Award for Best Documentary. Two films by Patricio Henríquez also garnered honours: Under the Hood: A Voyage into the World of Torture (2007) received the Jutra Award for Best Documentary, while The Dark Side of the White Lady (2006) won the Award for Best Investigative Documentary at the Valparaiso Film Festival in Chile and the Regards sur le crime award at the Festival Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland, and was also a finalist at the Jutras. Driven by Dreams (2006) by Serge Giguère, co-produced by Productions du Rapide-Blanc, won the Prize for Best Canadian Documentary at the Calgary International Film Festival, the Jutra Award for Best Documentary and a Special Jury Prize at Hot Docs in Toronto. Between Two Notes (2006) by Florence Strauss, co-produced with Films d'Ici, won the Award for Best Reportage at the International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal.
In early 2007, Colette Loumède joined the Institut national de l'image et du son (INIS) as the founding director of its Documentary Program.
She returned to the NFB in 2009 and has since produced a number of feature films, including In Pieces (2011) by Paule Baillargeon, Hole Story (2011) by Richard Desjardins and Robert Monderie, and Sessions (2012) by Danic Champoux.
