Catherine Drolet
President

With 25 years of experience managing complex projects, Catherine Drolet has produced and led technological, educational, creative, and event-based initiatives. Her expertise includes supervising multidisciplinary teams (60+) and fostering strategic partnerships that maximize impact and stakeholder engagement, both locally and internationally. She is a collaborative leader combining vision and execution with quality and results.

She notably led a complex XR project within an educational organization, where she drove the strategy, financing, partner engagement, and the production of immersive content and a virtual reality application. Through her leadership and strategic vision, she exceeded financing objectives by 3.5x, secured over 50 partnerships, developed a business model, and recruited and supervised 40+ professionals. She thereby built the project’s and the non-profit organization’s strategic, technological, pedagogical, and operational infrastructure, paving the way for their promotion and deployment in education and employment, as well as their financial independence.

This immersive and educative project, titled Voca360°, the WhenItClicks social digital campaign (SRAM), and the documentary films Après nous (UnisTV), Claude n’est pas mort (Bell Media) and Cities Held Hostage (CBC) are among the latest projects that she produced.

Holding a Master’s in Project Management (MPM) and training at MIT in immersive technologies, she brings cutting-edge expertise in XR production and in integrating innovative solutions into the implementation of strategic visions. She also holds a Bachelor’s in Counseling (BEd), with a specialization in team management and cultural diversity.

Prizes and nominations received for her productions:

Ton Déclic │When It Clicks 

→ Numix Awards 2021’s Finalist : Short-form and Web Series : Documentary

→ Gemeaux Awards 2020’s Finalist : Best Original Program or Series Produced for Digital Media : Documentary

Cities Held Hostage │Main basse sur la ville

→ Gemeaux Awards 2019’s Winner : Best Documentary Screenplay – film

→ Gemeaux Awards 2019’s Finalist :

Best Documentary or Documentary Series : History and politics

Best Documentary Direction : Society, history and politics – film

Best Documentary Cinematography – film

Claude n’est pas mort │Claude – Still Alive

→ Gémeaux Awards 2018’s Winner: 

Best Documentary or Documentary Series : Biography or Portrait

Best Sound : Magazines, Public affairs, Documentary

→ Gemeaux Awards 2018’s Finalist :

Best Documentary Direction: Biography or Portray, Arts and Culture, Nature, Sciences and Environnement – Film

Best Original Music : Documentary

Un gars, c’est un gars! │A Guy’s a Guy!

→ Gemeaux Awards 2014’s Finalist: 

Best Documentary : Society (for two films out of the five nominees)

Best Research : Public affairs, Documentary all categories

No Land No Food No Life│Sans terre, c’est la faim

→ Gemeaux Awards 2014’s Finalist: 

Best documentary : Society (two films among the five nominees)

→ Grand Prize South Crossroads Images – Festival del Terre (Austria, 2014)

→ Special Jury Mention – Portneuf Environmental Film Festival (Québec, 2014)

→ IDFA Social Justice Oxfam Award’s Finalist – IDFA (Netherlands, 2013)

Hier encore, je t’espérais toujours │ Yesterday Still Hoping

→ Special Jury Mention – Paris International Human Rights Film Festival (France, 2009)

À contre-courant (2004-2008)

→ Télé-Québec Audience Award –  Québec Cinema Rendezvous (Québec, 2013)

Hiro (2007)

→ Technical Award –  Ânûû-rû Âboro International Film Festival (New Caledonia, 2008)