Christine Noël

Christine Noël became the Executive Producer at the NFB’s English and French Animation Units in April 2024. Previously, Christine had been the head of French animation since 2021. She has more than 25 years of experience in producing and marketing animated films. Christine 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 Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski’s The Girl Who Cried Pearls, which won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film at the 98th Academy Awards®. Some of her other notable credits as a producer include Catherine Lepage’s Ultra Strong, selected to screen at Annecy, Hayat Najm’s The Sound of Things Ablaze, winner of the award for Best Animation at the New York City Short Film Festival, and Lori Malépart-Traversy’s Magical Caresses, a series of five animated documentary shorts that has won many awards, 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. Christine’s other production credits include Michèle Lemieux’s The Painting, made using the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen, Véronique Paquette’s Loca and Korean filmmaker Dahee Jeong’s Society of Clothes.