Émilie Martel

Bio

Émilie Martel is a writer & director. She has spent years directing short documentary content for organizations worldwide, such as The Guardian, Great Big Story, Univision, New York Post and more. She has directed and produced two seasons of the animated documentary youth series called The Métis (19 episodes of 13 minutes, TFO), created, co-wrote and directed a non-scripted tween cooking series called Petites bouchées du monde that was recently nominated for a Prix Gémeaux (29 episodes of 13 minutes, TFO), directed several episodes of the documentary series of 180 (13 of 23 minutes, TVA), directed and produced a documentary film called Alias Marie-Soleil (1 x 49 min; TFO, Radio-Canada) and a documentary series called Au coeur du Yukon (7 of 48 minutes, Unis TV). She co-directed a scripted teen series about girls in a hockey league called Gang de hockey, a concept she created and co-wrote (8 of 13 minutes, TFO).

Her independent projects have received support from various organizations such as Hot Docs, the Canadian Council for the Arts and the Ontario Council for the Arts. She has received the 2018 Canadian Women Artists’ Award from the New York State Council on the Arts, is a beneficiary of the WIDC director program (2023) and the BIPOC Access Program from the National Screen Institute (2023) . She was a recipient of the Youth Media Alliance’s Thérèse-Pinho Scholarship in 2019 and of the Banff Diversity of Voices (2019, 2020, 2021).

Whether it’s a documentary or educational series, Émilie is passionate about exploring new forms of visual storytelling, loves working with a variety of artists, and has a desire to tell stories that highlight cultural diversity and environmental themes. She is a franco-Ontarian and part of the Wendat First Nation in Wendake, Québec.

She works in English, French and Spanish.