Francine Hébert has been working in the film and television industry since 2002. As a Director and documentary Screenwriter, she finds inspiration in stories filled with humanity while touching on broader contemporary social issues.
Her first three shorts – Cafeteria (2015), Noah, 18 years old (2018) and A Way of Being Together (2020) won awards at the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma in Montreal, the Festival international de cinéma francophone en Acadie in Moncton and / or Les Éloizes in Dieppe.
Her films were shown at the Oscar recognized Festival REGARD, the FIN Atlantic International Film Festival, the Festival international de cinéma francophone en Acadie, the Festival de Cinema de la Ville de Québec and the Percéides Film Festival, among others.
She recently directed eight episodes for the documentary series Hors Québec (Productions Rivard, TVA). In 2021, she worked on two medium length documentary films as well as community projects with the Conseil provincial des sociétés culturelles of New Brunswick and the Société culturelle Kent-Sud.
professional affiliations
- Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick, since 2015
- Front des réalisateurs indépendants du Canada, since 2015
- Directors Guild of Canada, since 2020
- Société civile des auteurs multimédia, since 2020
- NB Film Coop, since 2019
- Union des artistes, since 2004
bursaries
2021 – artsnb, Career Development (Professionalization and Promotion), Website creation
2021 – artsnb, Creation, Medium length documentary
2020 – artsnb, Professional Development, Professtional Development, Incubateur du FRIC
2020 – Tourism, Heritage and Culture N.-B., Incubateur du FRIC
2020 – artsnb, Career Development, Arts by Invitation, Une façon d’être ensemble at the Semaine acadienne de Courseulles-sur-mer, France
2019 – Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create, Concept to Realization, Une façon d’être ensemble
2018 – artsnb, Creation, Une façon d’être ensemble
2017 – artsnb, Creation, Noah, 18 ans
professional development
Bachelor of Science Univ. Saint-Boniface, Manitoba
Concentration Mathematics, Dean’s Honour List
2022
Grantwriting; an artists’ guide – Jean-Denis Boudreau, AAAPNB
Creative writing– Yao, FRIC
Optimizing your online presence – Marika Laforest, AAAPNB
2021
Initiation to the craft of audiovisual research – Lyne Barnabé, AAAPNB / TV5 / U de Moncton
Feature length documentary conceptualisation – Amy Miller, Incubateur FRIC
Building a respectful workplace – Chris Ross, Director’s Guild of Canada
Introduction DOP – Jérôme Sabourin, FRIC
2020
Direction of production – Marie-Claude Beaulieue, Audrey Ann Dupuis Pierre, INIS / FICFA
Film distribution – Phil Comeau, mentorship AAAPNB
Intro to editing in Premiere Pro – Kevin McIntyre, AAAPNB / UnisTV
2019
Film, television and web scriptwriting – Guy Boutin, AAAPNB / TV5 / U of Moncton Continuing education
2017
DOP, framing and composition – Alexandre Lampron, FRIC / INIS
Artistic approach writing – Catherine Voyer-Léger, AAAPNB
2016
Fiction tv directing – Jim Donovan, FRIC
Social media – creative springboard? – Catherine Voyer-Léger, AAAPNB
2014
Documentary scriptwriting – Renée Blanchar, ONF
2007
Physical theater – Mathieu Chouinard, U de Moncton
2006
Journalism training / newsroom – Guy LeBlanc, Radio-Canada
Voice training – Diane Ricard
2005
Tumbling – Carson Nattrass, Théâtre Cercle Molière
Clown – Christian Perron, Théâtre Cercle Molière
Presentation in front of camera – Jacques Payette, Productions Rivard
Poetic interpretation in acting – Alain Doom, Théâtre Cercle Molière
2004
Training in diction – Jean-Stéphane Roy
Text delivery for the news – Michelle Magne, SRC
2001
Masks / Vaudeville – Théâtre Cercle Molière