Portfolio
Hogtown (2024)
Short Series (8 x 15)
Forced to leave her hometown temporarily, Manu finds it hard to adapt to her new surroundings. She has only one thing on her mind: moving back to Toronto. However, an unexpected encounter turns Manuela’s life upside down, calling into question everything she's known and wanted up to now.
Words Left Unspoken
Documentary : 52 minutes
Reelworld Film Festival, CBC GEM, AMI
2024
After avoiding speaking at all cost for over two decades, Joze Piranian, who has a severe stutter, decides to confront his fears, by travelling back to his home country, Lebanon, and holding the conversations he never dared to have before with his family. He hopes to finally make peace with his stutter and become the man he’s always wanted himself to be.
Hotel Beirut
Series 8x22"
Cowritten, Codirected
Cinemania, TFO, Natyf TV
2024
Fleeing the war in Lebanon in the late 80s, siblings Zeina (14) and Fady (9), and their parents, move to Canada. The family’s new home quickly becomes the go-to destination for displaced Lebanese seeking temporary shelter, to the great despair of the two children, who are forced to share a room.
Loud & Here
Documentary 12 minutes
Hot Docs, CBC GEM, Crave, TFO
2023
After noticing too many cases of sexual violence going unreported or unpunished within their own schools, 23 teen girls decide to take matters into their own hands to make meaningful change to policy affecting school boards across Quebec.
All Strings Attached
Short Film : 16 Minutes
Montreal Black Film Festival, Bronzelens Fest, TFO
2022
Young, career-minded, and ambitious, Roselyne and Adam have difficulty finding time for their relationship in their overloaded and always hectic schedule. When the two finally decide to spend time together, an unexpected visit complicates their plans.
Strong & Free
Podcast : 6 x 20 minutes
Historica Canada, Best Podcast Amazon Music 2022
2020
Tracing stories from the earliest Black settlers to recently arrived Canadians, Strong and Free captures just a few of the crucial stories of Black Canadians thriving and contributing to building this country.
Hogtown - Season 1
Series 7x13 minutes
TFO, TV5, TV5 Monde
2021
When 16-year-old Manuela and her family are threatened to be evicted from their apartment building by a real estate builder, she decides to take matters into her own hands and fight to stay in her neighborhood.
Tales of Ordinary Fatphobia
Documentary - 24 minutes
2020
What is fatphobia and what can be done to overcome it? With poetic illustrations and painful, compelling testimony, Tales of Ordinary Fatphobia offers multiple examples of the psychological effects of weight-based discrimination and bullying on adolescent girls.
Deadline
Short Film - 9 minutes
2018
On the eve of their first anniversary as a couple, Julien and Camille must make the decision of their life: Who will have to leave everything behind to follow the other in their country of origin?
Portrait of Jorge Lozano
short film 1x3 minutes
2020
Jorge Lozano Lorza is a recipient of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts in 2020.
Amazing Teenagers
webdocs 7x5 minutes
TFO
2017
Amazing Teenagers is a series of short documentaries broadcasted on TFO presenting a day in the life of young adolescents who have distinguished themselves through their projects or social involvement.
I am Unfaithful - Short Film
1x3 minutes
2015
Being unfaithful and honest in love is not easy every day.
BIO
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Josiane is a bilingual Film & TV writer, director, producer, who strongly believes in the use of media as a vector of change. Her versatility has allowed Josiane to hold a wide range of positions in Canada, Europe, South America, and Africa. These extraordinary life-changing experiences have fundamentally shaped her artistic journey, and she feels particularly drawn to issues related to social justice.
Name as one of Playback’s Magazine’s 10 talent to watch, in the past 5 years, Josiane has had the pleasure to write, direct & produce a variety of projects, including her documentaries Words Left Unspoken (Al Jazeera, CBC, TFO) , Tales of Ordinary fatphobia (NFB, Radio-Canada), Loud & Here (Hot Docs‘23) as well as 2 seasons of her debut short-form scripted series Ainsi va Manu/Hogtown (TV5 Monde, TFO, Radio-Canada).
Alumni of the TIFF Series Accelerator 2024, Josiane’s creative work received more than 50 nominations in national & international festivals, winning more than 20 awards, including 3x Best Series, 2x Best Screenplay & 5 times Best Director.
Season 1 of Ainsi va Manu also received 4 Gémeaux nominations and a Youth Media Alliance Awards of Excellence nomination for best inspirational youth series. Season 2 of Ainsi va Manu was nominated at the prestigious Kids Screen Awards and the 29th edition of the American Black Film Festival. Her Documentary Words Left Unspoken also received three nominations at the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards: best documentary, best writing and best directing. Josiane also co-wrote, co-directed and co-produced season 1 of the half-hour dramedy series Hotel Beyrouth, which premiered at the Cinemania film festival in 2024.
Josiane also wrote, produced and hosted the French episodes of Strong & Free, an Historica Canada Podcast Series about Canadian black history, which was selected as Amazon Music’s best podcast in 2022 & won the Gold Award for Best Podcast at the Digital Publishing Award.
Some of Josiane’s upcoming projects are her feature documentary Endo-Warriors and the feature narrative Which Way Home.
