Pascale Ferland has been a screenwriter, director, and producer for over twenty years. After studying visual arts at UQAM, where her video works received awards, she developed a personal body of documentary films, grounded in fieldwork and driven by a desire to create dialogue between form and ideas. In 2003, she directed her first documentary, Something Like Immortality, followed by Tree With Severed Branches (2005) and Adagio for a Biker (2008), which earned her the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award from the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2012, she wrote, directed, and produced her first feature-length fiction film, Riptide. Her 2018 documentary, Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political, achieved wide recognition and won numerous awards. Her most recent film, In the Forest (2025), extends this creative path and resonates at the heart of contemporary debates on our relationship with nature and the land.
Filmography
IN THE FOREST, 124 min, Documentary, 2025
PAULINE JULIEN : INTIMATE AND POLITICAL, 77 min, Documentary, 2018
RIPTIDE, 98 min, Fiction, 2013
ADAGIO FOR A BIKER, 90 min, Documentary, 2008
TREE WITH SEVERED BRANCHES, 80 min, Documentary, 2005
SOMETHING LIKE IMMORTALITY, 82 min, Documentary, 2003