Anne Claire Poirier

Born in Montreal. Study first in Law but turn to the Conservatoire d'art dramatique. She works on TV at the Societe Radio-Canada as an actress, an interviewer, a writer. Enters the Office du film du Canada in 1960 in the Translation's Office. From edition to production then direction, she becomes a director engaged on women issues. She made her first long features De mere en fille in 1967. But it is really in 1979 with A Scream from Silence (1979) that she really punches her way through a large public, presenting the rape problem from the victim point-de-vue.