Chanelle Routhier

Routhier has more than 25 years' experience in film and TV and has served as film and TV commissioner for the province of Quebec at the Quebec Film & Television Council since 2016. Previously, Routhier spent four years at Distraction Formats as director of international operations and marketing and served on its board. She later spent 13 years at the National Film Board of Canada as director of festivals and partnerships and head of international sales and market development. In her current role, Routhier is responsible for economic development across Quebec's audiovisual and media industry, including production services in film, TV, animation, VFX, VR/AR and post-production. In 2019, supported by a grant from the Secrétariat du Québec aux Relations Canadiennes, she co-created the first Canadian Film Commissions network with the Vancouver Economic Film Commission. Routhier is a board member of FCTMN (Femmes du cinéma, de la télévision et des médias numériques) and a member of AFCI