A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
A graduate in communications, Élise directed her first short documentary film, Beijing-Hochelag, in 2016, which highlights the reality of Chinese convenience store owners. She subsequently directed the web series Un été à la chapelle (La Fabrique Culturelle), the short documentary Capitaines (Tabloïd), the medium-length documentary Après nous (Unis TV) and the podcast documentary Au pays des cratères (La Fabrique Culturelle, Transistor). Through her sensitive and human approach, Élise likes to address social and current issues through the journey of touching protagonists. Social justice, the status of women and the environment are particularly close to her heart. With gentleness and curiosity, she wants to meet others with all respect. In 2025, the documentary Libres de choisir, which gives unprecedented access to the reality of workers who protect the right to abortion, was broadcast on Radio-Canada. She directed it with Julie Boisvert.
Director:
2016 Beijing-Hochelag
2025 Libres de choisir
Writer:
2016 Beijing-Hochelag
2025 Libres de choisir
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.