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Carole Laganière was born in Montreal.
In 1987, she graduated in Film Direction from the INSAS, Belgium.
In 1989, she made her first short, Jour de Congé,
who won a number of prizes in Europe. On her return to Québec,
she directed Aline, which received the Best Feature Film
prize at the 1992 Festival de Namur. Happy forays into the genre
of documentary-fiction (Histoires de Musées, 1996-97,
Des Mots Voyageurs, 1999), led the filmmaker to choose,
with The Fiancée of Life (2001) and The
Moon and the Violin (2003), to focus on reality. The latter
both won the Gold Award for Best Canadian Documentary at Hot Docs
(Toronto) respectively in 2002 and 2003.
She directed in 2004 a documentary about children in East Montreal, East End Kids. The film, selected in more than a dozen of international festivals, was nominated for Best Documentary at the Prix Jutra and the Prix Gémeaux 2005.
Les Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal presented a retrospective of her work in 2005, as well as her last feature, Country. City Park, A Little Music for the Soul, directed in 2006, is her last documentary.
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