carole ducharme

As an award winning writer, director, producer, and lawyer with a history of film financing at an international level, Carole Ducharme is a powerful force within the film and television community. Recently, she brought her wealth of experience to the 13 x 1 hour hockey docu-drama series Bell Making the Cut / Le Repêchage Bell. The tight schedule and unique challenges of producing an original French version inspired her to bring her best to the project, which was broadcast in French on the Quebec sports network RDS and in English on CBC.

Carole Ducharme wrote, produced and directed the notable short fiction films Love Interuptus and the award-winning half-hour comedy Straight From the Suburbs (BC-Quebec co-production). The latter was financed by Telefilm Canada, SODEC and the NFB and went on to be a big hit, winning two Nell Shipman Production Excellence Awards (Seattle, USA), including Best Short Film, and was subsequently invited to more than 40 international film festivals. It has been broadcast in Canada, the USA and Australia and Carole is now developing a comedy series and a feature film based on the property.

Recently, Carole wrote the feature film script The Women of My Life, with the assistance of Telefilm Canada, BC Film, The Harold Greenberg Fund, Movie Central and the National Screen Institute Features First Program. The film is a BC-Quebec co-production, set to be shot in Montreal, with Ducharme both directing and producing.

Carole was born in Montreal and graduated from the University of Montreal's Law School. After specializing in film financing, she worked in Paris as Head of International Co-Productions, where she co-produced such Canadian features hits as Mon Amie Max with Genevieve Bujold.

After returning to Canada to reside on the West Coast, Carole Associate Produced the animated television series Cybersix (Canada-Japan co-production) broadcast on Teletoon and winner of the Leo award for Best Animated Television Series. She went on to write and direct the documentary The Neighborhood Kids, winner of the Blizzard Award for Best Non-Dramatic series. Then she co-wrote, co-directed and associate produced the one-hour documentary Man Made Women, about the Miss Venezuela beauty pageant, which premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto in 2002. She has also co-written and directed episodes of the educational documentary series for teenagers Canada à la Carte II, which was broadcast on TFO.