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2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

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Streaming Stars, Then and Now

Yanie was born in Montreal, Canada. She held her first camera as a kid and immediately started telling stories with images.

While studying film at Université du Québec à Montréal, she had the opportunity to learn with director Jean-Claude Lauzon, studying his work and following him on sets and editing rooms. She then started working for TV and began directing documentaries.

As a documentary filmmaker, she has shot in over 50 countries, often working as an on camera reporter and holding her own camera. Yanie hosted her own documentary series Y.U.L. (1998)

Eager for knowledge, experiences and encounters, she traveled the world to be inspired, create and become the woman she is today. Through her camera, she shows the world as she sees it, whether she's directing documentaries, fictions, commercials or TV shows.

Since 2001, she has been directing fiction films with the KINO movement while also serving on its Board of Directors. She is also a member of the Film Fatales collective of female directors and of the Réalisatrices Équitables organization and the "Femmes du Cinéma, de la Télévision et des Medias Numériques" network in Québec as well as a voting member of the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television.

She has directed many TV commercials for the Canadian Broadcasting Company and for SWAT films.

Yanie is a screenwriter, director and sometimes DOP. She enjoys teaching cinema to fledgling filmmakers, young and old. She gave film workshops in India, Madagascar, schools in Canada and women's associations.

From 1996 to 2006 she worked with the art collective: Farine Orpheline Cherche Ailleurs Meilleur as a Guest Artist / Videographer.

In 2005, she was invited by the Olympic Committee in Switzerland to participate in the international filmmaking event Les Jeux du Court which resulted in creating the short film Flamme (2005)

My Brand New Life (2004) won the Multicultural Prize of the 2005 edition of the Gemeaux Awards.

Facteur Humain (2008) a TV Series she has created, directed and shot in 12 different countries, that exposes how humans react to their environment, was nominated for Best Documentary series at the 2008 Gemeaux Awards.

She was nominated for Best Director for the Documentary Series "La Vie Nous Arrive" (2013) at the Gemeaux awards.

Her film L'été indien (2013) was awarded Best Direction and Best Screenplay at the Kids Festvial in Spain and was considered for Best Short at the Jutra prizes in 2014. It was also selected in numerous festivals around the world including: Fort Myers Film Festival, L.A. Cine Fest, Chinh India in Delhi, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in France, Nueva Mirada in Argentina, the Quebec City Film Festival and the Rendez Vous du Cinema Quebecois in Montréal and many more.

Les choses de ma vie (2011) also had a great festival career, showing in festivals in Prague, Lausanne, Toronto, Marseille, Ottawa, Quebec, Montreal and many more.

Yanie is one of the 8 Canadian filmmakers (out of 200) to be chosen by the Canadian Academy of Cinema to be part of their esteemed Women Directors Program.

She is currently preparing her first feature film, Lola et moi. Its script was selected at the Cannes Film Festival's Screenwriters Pavillon. Yanie is also writing the screen adaptation of "Moitié Vrai" a novel by Ariane Cordeau (Lemeac 2015).

Academy of Canadian Cinema Women Director 2019-2020

Awards

Yanie Dupont-Hébert

Cinequest San Jose Film Festival

Fantasia Film Festival

Gémeaux Awards

Chinh India Kids Film Festival

Fort Myers Film Festival

Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival

Los Angeles Cinefest

The Kids Festival

International Open Film Festival (IOFF)

Cannes Screenplay Contest

WIND International Film Festival

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