Passionate, creative and rigorous, Lyne Charlebois mainly dedicates her work to film and television. Her acclaimed feature film Borderline won many awards both in Quebec and on the international scene, and popular television dramas like Toute la vérité, Tabou, Nos étés and the docufiction Yin Yang are among her best-known works.
She won pan-canadian and international critical acclaim for Nous sommes tous les jours (We Are Everyday), a series of seven short features exploring seven different facets of the word "love" over the seven days of the week. These short features were presented at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Rencontres du court-métrage in Paris, and did not go unnoticed at the Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma.
In parallel with her film and television career, Lyne Charlebois directed an impressive number of commercials for companies like Loto-Québec, Héma-Québec and Wal-Mart. She is well sougth-after for her versatility and eclecticism.
Her great talent, achievements and life accomplishments have cast her as one of the most important directors in Quebec and in Canada.
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Lyne Charlebois' talent as a director was revealed in the late 1980s. She designed and directed more than a hundred music videos for numerous well-known artists and won awards in Quebec and internationally: two Felix awards for best music video of the year and best music video at the Los Angeles Music Festival (Daniel Belanger's Opium), two more Felix awards (Laurence Jalbert, Marjo) and a Juno Award for best music video of the year (Gogh Van Go).
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Lyne Charlebois began her movie directing carreer as a still photographer, working with directors as eminent as Gilles Carle, Jean-Claude Lauzon and Pierre Falardeau. As a photographer and designer, she created several posters for the TNM in Montreal, album covers for many artists (Jean Leloup, Pierre Flynn, Richard Seguin…). She produced a photo documentary for Cirque du Soleil, for which she journeyed to Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.
