The Last Meal

Maryse Legagneur

Maryse Legagneur started her career as a director when she became the winner of the tv series La Course Destination Monde. She rapidly directed and collaborated on programs such as: Bande à part (ARTV), Une pilule, une petite granule (Télé Québec), Gang de rue (Télé Québec) and les Voix humaines (ARTV) to name a few. In addition to her career as a director, she is an activist defending the minorities’ rights victim of racial discrimination through popular educational projects in Saint-Michel’s neighborhood. As a result of her observations in the field, she directed at the NFB her first documentary entitled Au nom de la mère et du fils, in which she tackled themes dear to her; the quest for freedom, social equity, cultural identity and the fight against young black men’s exclusion.

Since then, she dedicates herself in racial equity and the civic rights of racialized people in Quebec and in Americas. In 2018, she co-directed the documentary Entends ma voix (Pamplemousse Média Production inc.). This film allows the unlikely meeting between the artists of the controversial play SLAV from Robert Lepage and Betty Bonifassi and those who have been outraged. Hoping that their exchanges can lead to possible solutions, they wish that freedom of expression can one day go hand in hand with better representation of cultural communities.

Maryse Legagneur presently works on a documentary about positive subversity of the word bitch among Americas’ afrofeminist movement: « BITCH, un Word Movie » (BLACK ON BLACK FILM).