Filmmaker
Nathalie Bibeau is an award-winning filmmaker known for her artful, unflinching approach to storytelling. Her feature documentary, The Walrus and the Whistleblower, won the Top Audience Award at the 2020 Hot Docs International Film Festival and played in the Winner’s Circle at DOC NYC. It was nominated for three Canadian Screen Awards and traveled to over twenty other festivals worldwide, winning the Best Documentary Feature Award at three of them.
In 2022, she released the four-part series, The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith, series directing and showrunning the first Amazon Original documentary series in Canada.
In previous lives, Nathalie has volunteered for War Child in Ethiopia and worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs in Lithuania. She holds a B.A. in History from McGill University and an M.A. in Russian Intellectual History from the University of Toronto. She is a mother of two and is fluent in French, English and Swedish.
The Walrus and the Whistleblower
2020
Feature Documentary
Writer / Director / Producer
A CBC Original with Bunbury Films
A whistleblower is sued for $1.5 million and falls down the rabbit hole of a personal quest at the heart of the movement to end marine mammal captivity.
Credits
Directed by Nathalie Bibeau
Written by Nathalie Bibeau
Produced by Frederic Bohbot and Nathalie Bibeau
Cinematography Christian Bielz
Edited by Vincent Guignard
Original score by Anaïs Larocque and Raphael Reed with songs by Patrick Watson
Recognition
Directed by Nathalie Bibeau
Written by Nathalie Bibeau
Produced by Frederic Bohbot and Nathalie Bibeau
Cinematography Christian Bielz
Edited by Vincent Guignard
Original score by Anaïs Larocque and Raphael Reed with songs by Patrick Watson
The Unsolved Murder of Beverly
Lynn Smith
2022
4 x 1hr
Series Director / Showrunner / Co-Executive Producer
An Amazon Original with Muse Entertainment
A cinematic study of a controversial cold case and police operation that explores the unrelenting enigma of a 50-year search for justice.
Credits
Series Directed by Nathalie Bibeau
Written by Andrea Stewart, Nathalie Bibeau
Series Produced by Tara Jan
Story Editors Andrea Stewart, Tara Hughes, Sean Robb, Brooks Gray
Associate Producer Rachel Browne
Executive Producers Jonas Prupas, Courtney Dobbins, Catherine Legge
Cinematography Christian Bielz
Original score by Todor Kobakov
Edited by Graeme Ball, Steve Taylor, Clark Masters, Jon Deitcher, Nick Taylor
Production Designer Brendan Callaghan
Directed & Edited by Michèle Hozer
Written by Roxana Spicer
Associate Producer Nathalie Bibeau
Executive Producers Michèle Hozer, Janice Dawe
Co-Executive Producer Jan Rofekamp
Recognition
Winner, Canadian Screen Award - Donald Brittain Award for Best Social & Political Documentary
Nominee, Canadian Screen Award - Best Editorial Research, Best Visual Research
Sugar Coated
2015
Feature Documentary
Associate Producer / Digital Media Producer
How the food industry seduced the world one spoonful at a time.
Credits
UPCOMING PROJECTS
LOST BOY
Planned Release: 2027
Feature Documentary
A CBC Original with the NFB and Muse Entertainment
A Film by Nathalie Bibeau
The disappearance of a young boy draws an army of Internet sleuths that puts his parents in the crosshairs, turns the family on itself, and reveals what we’ve become in the true crime era.
Based on the article in WIRED Magazine, Rain Boots, Turning Tides and the Search for a Missing Child by Katherine Laidlaw.
DOULA
(working title)
Planned Release: 2026
3 x 1 hr
A CBC Original with Muse Entertainment
​A Series by Nathalie Bibeau
The inconceivable saga of Kaitlyn Braun, a 25-year old social worker who called on over 40 doulas to support her through multiple traumatic pregnancies and births. With intimate access to both the victims and the perpetrator, Doula explores same-gender crime, the nature of empathy and the controversial question of its limitations.
GAGGED
Planned Release: 2027
Feature documentary
TVO / Knowledge Network
A Film by Nathalie Bibeau
A poetic reckoning that unmasks how NDAs have quietly enabled abuse, silenced victims, and shaped our collective silence. Featuring a live case that will break in the film, Gagged is a story about secrets and what happens to us all when the wrong ones are forced to be kept.
