InformAction works with creative directors who have a personal vision and strong original points of view. Their films are warm, engaging, moving, provocative, sensitive, profound, often humorous. InformAction produces documentaries by both experienced and emerging filmmakers, in a spirit of excellence and conviviality, and is committed to giving them the best possible visibility on television and in both theatrical and non-theatrical venues.

Her first documentary, Warshaw on the Main, a slice-of-life documentary about a group of colourful cashiers working at the landmark Montreal supermarket, was broadcast by CBC-Newsworld, CBC, CFCF-12, and Télé-Québec. In 2005, she directed her second documentary, Lifelike, on the weird and wonderful world of taxidermy.

Araz Artinian completed a B.A. in Communication Studies at Concordia University. Her first documentary, Surviving on the Richter Scale, won six awards around the world. She worked more than four years on 2005 release The Genocide in Me.



Author of a novel, Merlyne, as well as experienced scriptwriter and script advisor, Manon Barbeau has directed many incisive and vibrant documentaries, like Alleycat Paradise.

He has been specializing for nearly ten years in major cultural, musical, and variety programs, television galas, and personal documentaries.

At thirty, Stéphane Bégoin quit the special effects industry to direct documentaries, with a preference for anthropology in the widest sense. He directed The Shaman’s Apprentice about an Inuk who, through contact with the Shipibo Indians of Peru, discovers how shamanism can be used to affirm Native identity.

Co-founder of Vidéo Femmes, independent filmmaker Helen Doyle signs committed documentaries and explores the formal expressions of video. The Messengers was in nomination for two Gémeaux Awards 2004 (including Best Social Documentary) and for Best Arts Documentary at the Banff International TV Festival 2004.

Co-founder of Vidéo Femmes, Nicole Giguère is writer and director of several documentaries and series for television. She directed The Age to Be for InformAction.


Anne Henderson has been writing and directing documentaries for 25 years. Her films encompasss a wide variety of subjects concerning culture, human rights, history, and the environment.


Born in France, former philosophy teacher and film critic, Jean-Daniel Lafond now lives in Quebec with three passions: writing, radio and cinema. Salam Iran, a Persian Letter won Best Documentary at the Gémeaux Awards 2002.

French writer-director Olivier Lassu has developed a number of projects in two areas: discovery (of art and culture), and psychology, especially around the matter of violence like in After the Outrage.


Dominic Morissette trained as a photographer and fell in love with filmmaking in the early 1990s. Like all his work, the documentary Afghan Chronicles is a fusion of his artistic approach and his social commitment.

Documentary recherchist, writer, director and director of photography, he also teaches filmmaking in college and university. His second film, Sans réserve, won the Price for Best Mid-length Documentary (AQCC) at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois 2008.


Co-founder of InformAction Films with producer Nathalie Barton and director Jean-Claude Bürger. After several years as a press correspondent in Africa, he has maintained a major interest in the continent, the subject of many of his films. The director of All They Need Is Words is also the head of the cultural organization Vues d’Afrique, which organizes the annual festival of African film and television, les Journées du cinéma africain et créole.




Vincent Audet-Nadeau graduated from Concordia University in Communication Studies and Political Science. He also holds a specialized degree in directing from INIS (Institut national de l’image et du son). La Vie après la shop is his first point of view documentary.

Mainly interested in social causes, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette is developing feature projects, both fiction and documentary, like Les mains du monde, her second mid-length documentary.

Philippe Baylaucq, award-winning director of Lodela, The Hidden Easel and The Art of Time, specializes in documentaries on art, culture and human stories, with a distinctive visual approach.

  Co-founder of InformAction Films with producer Nathalie Barton and director Alain d’Aix, Jean-Claude Bürger has directed many documentaries on international issues, including Raiders of the Lost Civilizations. He now works for Radio-Canada’s current affairs program Zone libre.

Native to Montreal, Karen Cho is an emerging filmmaker interested in using film as a tool for social debate. Karen's films often recount un-told histories and explo