Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (born 1979) is a Canadian actress, film director, and screenwriter from Quebec. Her films are known for their “organic, participatory feel." Barbeau-Lavalette is the daughter of filmmaker Manon Barbeau and cinematographer Philippe Lavalette (), and the granddaughter of artist Marcel Barbeau.

Originally prominent as a child actor, her credits included the series Le Club des 100 Watts and À nous deux!. She later began making documentary films, including Les Petits princes des bidonvilles (2000), Buenos Aires, no llores (2001) and Si j’avais un chapeau (2005), before releasing her first feature film, The Ring, in 2007. She also published Je voudrais qu'on m'efface in 2010, a novel which revolves around some of the same characters as The Ring.

Barbeau-Lavalette is best known to international audiences for her award-winning 2012 film Inch'Allah.

Barbeau-Lavalette was born on February 8, 1979, in Montreal, the daughter of Manon Barbeau, a filmmaker and director, and Philip Lavalette, a cinematographer. She is the granddaughter of the Canadian artist Marcel Barbeau, who studied under Paul-Émile Borduas, and is known for being one of the first non-figurative painters in Canada.

As a young adult, Barbeau-Lavalette lived and studied in the heavily disputed West Bank area.

In 2000, after finishing her first full-length documentary, Les Petits princes des bidonvilles (2000), Barbeau-Lavalette enrolled at the Université de Montréal, where she majored in International Studies. She then went on to study Film Production at the INIS. Following her time at INIS, Barbeau-Lavalette travelled to Ramallah, Palestine to attend Birzeit University.

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