Nadine Viau
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Nadine Viau is a seasoned communications professional with deep expertise in the film and entertainment industry. Based in Montreal, she serves as a publicist at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), where she leads communications efforts for a wide range of film projects, with a particular focus on animation and short films.
In recent years, Nadine has led media-relations campaigns on a remarkable lineup of NFB-produced or co-produced Oscar-nominated films, including Blind Vaysha (Theodore Ushev), Affairs of the Art (Joanna Quinn), The Flying Sailor (Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis), Animal Behaviour (David Fine and Alison Snowden), and Me and My Moulton (Torill Kove). She has also worked on films by such leading Canadian animators as Claude Cloutier, Cordell Barker, Chris Landreth and Patrick Doyon. Her high-profile media-relations work includes publicity for the Quebec feature documentaries The Rose Family (Félix Rose), Guidelines (Jean-François Caissy), My War (Julien Fréchette) and Freelancer on the Front Lines (Santiago Bertolino). She's also promoted groundbreaking interactive and immersive projects like Fort McMoney (David Dufresne), Here at Home (in association with the Mental Health Commission of Canada), Barcode (Arte France/NFB) and the interactive app McLaren's Workshop.
Nadine's vast festival experience includes championing NFB animation at the Cannes Film Festival-acclaimed works such as Bydlo (Patrick Bouchard), The Tesla World Light (Matthew Rankin), Bread Will Walk (Alex Boya) and Hypersensitive (Martine Frossard).
Background
Before joining the NFB, Nadine spent nine years as communications coordinator at Propriétés Terra Incognita/Cinéma Ex-Centris (2000-2009), a company owned by Daniel Langlois. The visionary founder of Softimage-developer of groundbreaking 3D animation software used in major films like Jurassic Park, Titanic and The Matrix-Mr. Langlois received a Scientific and Technical Oscar in 1997 for his contributions to digital animation.
She previously worked for two years at Lions Gate Films in Montreal (1998-2000) as a media-relations assistant, contributing to the press campaigns of such major Canadian feature films as Elvis Gratton 2 and Les Boys 2.
Nadine studied communications at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), where she began to hone the skills that would shape her career.
The NFB at the Academy Awards
The NFB and its productions and co-productions have received 11 Oscars, as well as an Honorary Academy Award for overall excellence in cinema.
In recent years, Nadine has led media-relations campaigns on a remarkable lineup of NFB-produced or co-produced Oscar-nominated films, including Blind Vaysha (Theodore Ushev), Affairs of the Art (Joanna Quinn), The Flying Sailor (Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis), Animal Behaviour (David Fine and Alison Snowden), and Me and My Moulton (Torill Kove). She has also worked on films by such leading Canadian animators as Claude Cloutier, Cordell Barker, Chris Landreth and Patrick Doyon. Her high-profile media-relations work includes publicity for the Quebec feature documentaries The Rose Family (Félix Rose), Guidelines (Jean-François Caissy), My War (Julien Fréchette) and Freelancer on the Front Lines (Santiago Bertolino). She's also promoted groundbreaking interactive and immersive projects like Fort McMoney (David Dufresne), Here at Home (in association with the Mental Health Commission of Canada), Barcode (Arte France/NFB) and the interactive app McLaren's Workshop.
Nadine's vast festival experience includes championing NFB animation at the Cannes Film Festival-acclaimed works such as Bydlo (Patrick Bouchard), The Tesla World Light (Matthew Rankin), Bread Will Walk (Alex Boya) and Hypersensitive (Martine Frossard).
Background
Before joining the NFB, Nadine spent nine years as communications coordinator at Propriétés Terra Incognita/Cinéma Ex-Centris (2000-2009), a company owned by Daniel Langlois. The visionary founder of Softimage-developer of groundbreaking 3D animation software used in major films like Jurassic Park, Titanic and The Matrix-Mr. Langlois received a Scientific and Technical Oscar in 1997 for his contributions to digital animation.
She previously worked for two years at Lions Gate Films in Montreal (1998-2000) as a media-relations assistant, contributing to the press campaigns of such major Canadian feature films as Elvis Gratton 2 and Les Boys 2.
Nadine studied communications at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), where she began to hone the skills that would shape her career.
The NFB at the Academy Awards
The NFB and its productions and co-productions have received 11 Oscars, as well as an Honorary Academy Award for overall excellence in cinema.
