COHORT 5 PARTICIPANT

Josiane is a bilingual Film & TV writer, director, producer, whose creative work often speaks on everything related to social justice. Name as one of Playback’s Magazine’s 10 talent to watch, in the past 5 years, Josiane work on a variety of projects, including her documentaries Words Left Unspoken (Al Jazeera, CBC, AMI) , Tales of Ordinary fatphobia (NFB, Radio-Canada), Loud & Here (Hot Docs‘23) as well as 2 seasons of her debut short-form scripted series Ainsi va Manu (TV5, TFO, Radio-Canada).

Alumni of the TIFF Series Accelerator 2024, Josiane’s creative work received more than 50 nominations in festivals, winning more than 20 awards, including 3x Best Series, 2x Best Screenplay & 5 times Best Director. Season 1 of Ainsi va Manu also received 4 Gémeaux nominations and a Youth Media Alliance Awards of Excellence nomination for best inspirational youth series. Season 2 was nominated at the prestigious Kids Screen Awards and the 29th edition of the American Black Film Festival. Her Documentary Words Left Unspoken also received three nominations at the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards: best documentary, best writing and best directing. Josiane also co-wrote, co-directed and co-produced season 1 of the half-hour dramedy series Hotel Beyrouth, which premiered at the Cinemania film festival in 2024.

Josiane also wrote, produced and hosted the French episodes of Strong & Free, a Historica Canada Podcast Series, which was selected as Amazon Music’s best podcast in 2022 & won the Gold Award for Best Podcast at the Digital Publishing Award.