Anne-Marie Gelinas

Career

She is the president and Chief Executive Officer of EMAfilms, a production company that she founded in 2008. Gélinas’ other features include Simon Lacombe"s Ne dis rien. John l"Écuyer"s Le Goût des jeunes filles (based on the novel by Dany Laferrière), starring Luck Mervil and Dan Bigras.

John Hazlett"s These Girls, starring David Boreanaz and Caroline Dhavernas.

And Hassan Benjelloun’son She was executive producer on The Bend and the short films Big Money and Avant-goût de printemps.

Her television work includes the series Hakuna Matata and De Dakar à Bandiagara for Quebec’s specialty television channel, Évasion. Anne-Marie co-produced the film A Bottle in the Gaza Sea and produced Martin Villeneuve"s Mars et Avril, starring Jacques Languirand, Caroline Dhavernas, Paul Ahmarani and Robert Lepage.

She has completed an Advanced Graduate Diploma in Management of Cultural Organizations from Higher Education Commission Montréal.

Achievements

• After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from Concordia University, Gélinas co-founded Productions Jeux d’Ombres in 1990 along with her husband Andrew Noble, and went on to produce critically acclaimed features such as André Turpin"s Zigrail. Eugene Garcia’s Burnt Eden, which won ‘Best Canadian Independent Film’ at the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media in 1997. And Méchant Party, starring Roc LaFortune and David Louisiana Haye. Anne-Marie Gélinas also produced the documentaries Oh Mother!, Change From Within and Le doigt dans l’œil, which won the Best Film and Public Choice awards at the Festival de Films de Portneuf sur l"environnement. More recently, she worked as line producer on Kim Nguyen"s War Witch (Rebelle), which received the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress at Berlinale 2012, Best Film and Best Actress awards at Tribeca 2012 and a 2013 Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

Membership

She is a member of the Association des producteurs de film et de télévision du Québec (APFTQ) and she holds a seat on the Board of Directors of Women in Film and Television – Montreal (WIFTM). Anne-Marie has been a member of Montreal’s Cinéma Parallèle since 1996, and in 1997 and 2007 she headed the organization of the events surrounding the institution’s 30th and 40th anniversaries.