Paul Barbeau

Paul Barbeau is a Canadian film director and producer.

Barbeau began his career producing music videos with NúFilms, which he founded with Bernard Nadeau, Stéphane Raymond and Jean-François Lord in May 2000. NuFilms later shut down, citing the financial impacts of illegal downloading of music during Napster's surge.

He produced the early short films of Maxime Giroux, as well as Giroux's early features, and was the producer of Ivan Grbovic's debut film Romeo Eleven (Roméo Onze).

Barbeau subsequently wrote and directed his directorial debut, Winter Passed (Après la neige). He followed up as a director with the films We Have Forever (À nous l'éternité) in 2018, and We Had It Coming in 2019.

In recent years he has had co-producer or executive producer credits on international films, including Pieces of a Woman (2020), Woman of the Hour (2023),,Novocaine (2025) and Splitsville (film)