Émilie Martel

Bio

Émilie Martel is a director, writer and a producer. She has spent years directing short documentary content for organizations worldwide, such as The Guardian, Great Big Story, Univision and more. Her projects have received support from Hot Docs Cross Current Funds (‘19), the Canadian Council for the Arts (‘19) and the Ontario Council for the Arts (‘20). She is directing and producing the first and second seasons of a francophone animated series about the Métis culture in Ontario (TFO/CMF), co-writing a fictional teen series about girls in a hockey league (TFO), and directing and writing a non-scripted tween cooking series (TFO/CMF).

Her documentaries have played in festivals around the world including Amdocs 2019 in California, One Word Film Festival 2019 in Ottawa, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival and the Ecuadorian film festival Línea Imaginaria in Madrid. Émilie received the 2018 Canadian Women Artists’ Award from NYSCA and is a beneficiary of the Banff Diversity of Voices Initiative (‘18, ‘19, ‘20). In 2019, she was a recipient of the Youth Media Alliance’s Thérèse-Pinho Scholarship. Émilie recently launched her production company Kannon Films. She is comfortable in working English, French and Spanish.