Guylaine Maroist

Guylaine Maroist is a Canadian journalist and filmmaker. She founded La Ruelle Films with Eric Ruel. She is well known for her documentary productions such as Gentilly or Not To Be, Time Bombs, Disunited States of Canada, God Save Justin Trudeau, Jukebox and Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age. In 2011, she received the Governor General's History Award for Popular History (The Pierre Berton Award) for her TV documentary series J’ai la mémoire qui tourne (My Memories On a Roll). She is President of Productions de la Ruelle, a documentary film production company in Montreal, and President of Les Artistes pour la Paix, a Quebec NGO advocating peace and nuclear disarmament. Her most recent film Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age [Je vous salue salope : la misogynie au temps du numérique], which she co-directed with Léa Clermont-Dion, is about cyberviolence against women.