Christine Noël has been Executive Producer of the French Program Animation Studio since January 2021. She has nearly 25 years of experience in producing and marketing animated films. Her career highlights include leading promotional strategies for NFB animated films that were subsequently nominated for Oscars® and marketing more than 150 titles. She recently produced the series Magical Caresses (Lori Malépart-Traversy), The Painting (Michèle Lemieux), Loca (Véronique Paquette) and Society of Clothes (Dahee Jeong), drawing on her keen understanding of audiences and the NFB’s acclaimed animation tradition to support creators from diverse backgrounds.
Christine Noël has nearly 25 years of experience in producing and marketing animated films. She began her NFB career at the French Program Animation Studio where, as a development officer, she made a key contribution to the production of major DVD box sets, including Norman McLaren: The Master’s Edition, and The Science of Moving Images, which focused on the work of Pierre Hébert. In addition, in 2006 she organized workshops given by Jacques Drouin on the pinscreen technique, which led filmmaker Michèle Lemieux to use this unique tool in her work. From 2007 to 2015, Christine oversaw the launch and promotional campaigns of more than 150 animated films in her capacity as Marketing Manager, while developing a close relationship with the community of creators and honing her expertise in animation. As Head of Marketing from 2015 to 2020, she led a cross-Canada team that annually promoted approximately 80 productions. She was also in charge of a number of promotional strategies for Oscar®-nominated NFB animated films, including Patrick Doyon’s Sunday and Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis’s Wild Life (both nominated in 2012), Torill Kove’s Me and My Moulton (2015), Theodore Ushev’s Blind Vaysha (2017), and Alison Snowden and David Fine’s Animal Behaviour (2019). As Executive Producer, Christine supports an approach to production that values creators from all walks of life and their diverse methods, continuing the NFB’s internationally recognized tradition of creation while drawing on her knowledge and understanding of audiences. She recently produced Lori Malépart-Traversy’s Magical Caresses, a series of five animated documentary shorts that has won five awards to date, including Best Short Form Non-Fiction Series at the Banff World Media Festival, Best Short From a Series at the Los Angeles Animation Festival and Best Show (Docu-Show Section) at the Seriesland Web Festival in Bilbao, Spain. Michèle Lemieux’s The Painting, made using the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen, Véronique Paquette’s LOCA and Korean filmmaker Dahee Jeong’s Society of Clothes are Christine’s latest production credits.