Nadine Valcin is a filmmaker of Haitian descent based in Toronto. Her short works of fiction, documentary, installation and virtual reality explore the memory, the quest for identity, language and the historical presence of the Afro-descendant community in Canada. She has directed four documentaries for the National Film Board, including Black, Bold and Beautiful and A School Without Borders. Nadine is the recipient of multiple awards and numerous grants including two Chalmers Arts Research Fellowships. She holds a Professional Diploma in Architecture from McGill University and a Master of Fine Arts from OCAD University. She has been an artist-in-residence at York University’s Osgoode Law School and at Library and Archives Canada as part of the Archive/CounterArchive research-creation project and currently teaches at Sheridan College in a suburb of Toronto.
Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Black, Bold And Beautiful (1999, Documentary, 43 min)
Sortie De Secours (2002, shorts series, 5 min)
Une École Sans Frontières (2005, Documentary, 50 min)
À Quand La Justice? (2006, Documentary, 17 min)
Derrière L’image (2007, Documentary, 8 min)
Fire And Fury (2007, 14 minutes)
Entre Deux (2009, 8 min)
Dérive (2016, 8 min)
Whitewash (2016, Experimental, 6 min.)
Heartbreak (2016, Experimental, 1 min)
Émergence (2017, Installation Video, 6 min)
Origines (2021, Installation Video, 4 min)
Our Home And Haunted Land (2021, Virtual Reality)
Johanne, tout simplement (2024, Documentary, 75 minutes)
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