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Pellerin Ginette
Ginette Pellerin has been working in television and film/video production since 1981. The holder of a BA in Visual Arts from the Université de Moncton and co-founder of Phare-Est Productions Inc. and Ameri Ka Productions, she turned to making documentaries in 1988. She then wrote and directed two films, L'Âme sœur and Un jardin sous la mer, co-produced by the NFB. The first of these, launching a prolific career, won three awards at the Atlantic Film Festival.Between 1992 and 2003, Ginette Pellerin wrote and/or directed numerous documentaries including Se donner des « elles » (Bronze Apple Award, National Educational Film and Video), Evangeline's Quest (special mention at the Festival du Cinéma francophone de Namur), L'Acadie retrouvée (Louisiana section), Mathilda and Durelle, all co-produced by the NFB. The docudrama Anna Malenfant d'Acadie, completed in 2000, was short-listed for the Prix Gémeaux, earned Pellerin the Historia prize from the Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique française and also won the award for best Acadian film at the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie.
Since 2003 she has written and directed several episodes of the documentary series Trésors vivants, which follows the careers of people who have made a difference in their field of expertise, such as Michel Brault, Viola Léger, Marie-André Bertrand and Gisèle Lalonde. She branched out career-wise by writing three books for younger readers, Flo prend son envol, Flo sauvée par les tétines de souris, and Flo et les borlicocos, published by Éditions Bouton d'or Acadie, and taught classes at the Programme d'information-communication of the Université de Moncton. It took Pellerin three years to complete the film Antonine Maillet - The Possibilities are Endless.
