Sophie Bédard Marcotte is a Canadian film director from Montreal, Quebec,[1] whose films explore the boundaries between documentary and fiction storytelling.[2]
She had a number of sound credits on films before releasing her debut documentary film, I've Gone Backwards or Something (J'ai comme reculé, on dirait), in 2017.[3]
Her second feature but first narrative fiction film, Winter Claire (Claire l'hiver), premiered at the 2017 Festival du nouveau cinéma before going into commercial release in 2018,[4] and was shortlisted for the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois in 2019.[5] Despite not considering herself an actress, she appeared in the film as its lead character, as she felt that could not afford to pay a professional actress.[6]
She followed up in 2019 with L.A. Tea Time, a semi-fictionalized documentary about her own road trip across the United States with friend and colleague Isabelle Stachtchenko.[7] The film was longlisted for the 2019 DGC Discovery Award.[8]