Paul Barbeau

Paul Barbeau is a Canadian film producer.[1]

Paul Barbeau
Paul Barbeau, Quebec City Film Festival 2012
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	Film Producer

Director of independent films and producer of films like Romeo Eleven, Pieces of a Woman and Woman of the Hour.[2]

Barbeau produced more than 700 music videos for international artists such as (Celine Dion, Arcade Fire, Daniel Lanois, Tragically Hip, ) with NúFilms[3] which he founded with Bernard Nadeau, Stéphane Raymond and Jean-Francois Lord in May 2000. After several MuchMusic Video Awards,[4] Victoires de la Musique and Grammy Award[5][6] nominations, NuFilms ends production due to the financial impacts of illegal downloading of music during Napster's surge.[7][8] This inspires him to write and direct his 1st feature, Après la neige,[9][8] which premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival.[10]

Under Reprise Films, Barbeau produces six Canadian features including Demain, Jo for Jonathan)[11] directed by Maxime Giroux, with the latter having its world premiere at the 2010 Locarno International Film Festival.[12][13] and Roméo Onze directed by Ivan Grbovic, (TIFF, KVIFF).

His 2nd film as writer/director We Have Forever premiered in Official Competition at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (IFFMH) also winning Best Director award at the Tallahassee Film Festival.[14]

His third feature as writer/director We Had It Coming, had its International premiere at the Prague International Film Festival in 2020.[15] Starring Natalie Krill, recipient of the Stars to Watch prize at the Whistler Film Festival.[16]

In recent years, Barbeau's focus has mainly shifted from directing to producing star-driven American feature films, co-producing films like Pieces of a Woman[17] and To Catch a Killer[18] and most recently, Executive Producer on Woman of the Hour,[19] directed by and starring Anna Kendrick.