Catherine Annau

Catherine Annau is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and writer.

Annau's debut feature Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation[1][2] won numerous awards including a Genie Award,[3] and appeared at New York's Lincoln Center, the National Gallery in Washington D.C., at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, and at various film festivals worldwide.[4]

Annau's other directing work includes the international co-production Sexual Intelligence with Kim Cattrall, broadcast on HBO, Channel 4, and Discovery Canada; Winning, a documentary about lottery winners, broadcast by the Sundance Channel U.S and public broadcasters, and The Power Refugees, a half-hour documentary about young Canadians in New York, which was nominated for a Gemini award. She produced and directed for CBC's investigative journalism series The Fifth Estate. Her documentary The Good Father about one of Canada's worst sexual predators won a Gracie Award (U.S). She has also produced an internationally award-winning documentary on women and heart disease, Wisdom of the Heart.

A published author, her written work has appeared in the Trudeau Albums (Penguin Books, 2000), and in The Globe and Mail, as well as in academic journals and anthologies of Canadian history.

Annau produced and directed Brick by Brick: the Story of Evergreen Brickworks, a documentary film about urban and environmental renewal and the Nazi POWs who helped build modern Toronto. It won a Heritage Toronto Award of Excellence.