Paul Barbeau

Paul Barbeau is a Canadian film producer.

Director of independent films and producer of films like Romeo Eleven, Pieces of a Woman and Woman of the Hour.

Barbeau produced more than 700 music videos for international artists such as (Celine Dion, Arcade Fire, Daniel Lanois, Tragically Hip, ) with NúFilms which he founded with Bernard Nadeau, Stéphane Raymond and Jean-François Lord in May 2000. After several MuchMusic Video Awards, Victoires de la Musique and Grammy Award nominations, NuFilms ends production due to the financial impacts of illegal downloading of music during Napster's surge. This inspires him to write and direct his 1st feature, Après la neige, which premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival.

Under Reprise Films, Barbeau produces six Canadian features including Demain, Jo for Jonathan) directed by Maxime Giroux, with the latter having its world premiere at the 2010 Locarno International Film Festival. and Roméo Onze directed by Ivan Grbovic, (TIFF, KVIFF).

His 2nd film as writer/director We Have Forever  premiered in Official Competition at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (IFFMH) also winning Best Director award at the Tallahassee Film Festival.

His third feature as writer/director We Had It Coming, had its International premiere at the Prague International Film Festival in 2020. Starring Natalie Krill, recipient of the Stars to Watch prize at the Whistler Film Festival.

In recent years, Barbeau's focus has mainly shifted from directing to producing star-driven American feature films, co-producing films like Pieces of a Woman and To Catch a Killer and most recently, Executive Producer on Woman of the Hour, directed by and starring Anna Kendrick.