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Michèle Smolkin is a French and Canadian writer, journalist, director and film-maker.

Biography
Michèle Smolkin was born in Paris in 1953. Trained as an architect, she came to BC directly from France in 1983 and turned to media. From 1985 to 2002, she worked as a freelance cultural journalist for the radio and the written press, a translator/voice over, a radio host, a TV and radio show producer, as well as a radio drama writer.

In 2002, she was hired by Radio-Canada as a cultural documentary producer. She has produced, directed and written several cultural documentaries including Green or blue? on Emily Carr and Concrete poetry on Arthur Erickson that went successfully on Festival tours. She then went on to produce a 24h TV show 24h à Vancouver for TV5 Monde (a worldwide francophone broadcaster) and a TV 16 part series (the Gemeaux and Leo nominated lifestyle magazine called Cliché ) for Radio-Canada British-Columbia and TV5 Québec-Canada.

In 2007, Michèle Smolkin became Programming Executive Producer (radio, TV and web) for Radio-Canada BC and Yukon. Among many other big media events, she organized the cultural radio and TV programming during the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, and the 2011 Creative city forum at Radio-Canada. Her last production before she retired from Radio-Canada in August 2013 was Vancouver... out of it? a web doc and a TV documentary, addressing the topic of cultural institutions vanishing from our city due to the new media revolution and real estate pressures - a documentary that she has written and directed as well.

In 2017, she directed and wrote "Si tu as faim, chante. Si tu as mal, ris" a moving documentary with rare archival footage and animated illustration by Elise Laroche for Toute l’histoire AB Groupe channel. It was selected at Doxa 2018 and at the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival 2018.

Michèle Smolkin has also published poems in two artist books with photographer Claudine Pommier and artist Richard Tetrault, a novel in 2009 at XYZ publishers in Québec C’est encore loin, le bonheur? and a novel in 2018 at Linda Leith Publishing in Québec Silence, je tombe.

Michèle Smolkin has served as a board member or a volunteer on several non for profit organization, like Real to Reel festival, Jewish Film Festival, VIFF, AIBC, Leo Awards, WIVF, Feed the Hungry, Truth and Reconciliation, Save the Hollywood Theatre, Hollywood Arts Fundation, CinéRoman and lecollectif.