Catherine Annau

Catherine Annau
Educational Content Producer 

Filmmaker, author, and communications specialist, Catherine Annau tells stories that engage audiences, build communities, and drive outcomes that change society for the better. As a freelance producer, director, and writer across a wide range of platforms, Catherine has earned more than a dozen prestigious awards and led productions around the world with multi-million budgets, often raising money to bring projects to fruition.

Variety magazine lauded Catherine one of Canada’s most talented directors. Her debut feature film Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the 70s Generation (NFB) won multiple awards, including the Best Canadian First Feature Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, and a Genie for Best Feature Length Documentary. It was screened at Lincoln Centre, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, and at festivals worldwide. Her subsequent films have garnered numerous national and international awards including a Gracie Allan Award and have been broadcast on HBO, Channel 4, CBC, RadioCanada, Discovery Canada, and TVOntario.  

Catherine’s writing appears in the best-selling Trudeau Albums (Penguin Books, 2000), The Globe and Mail, the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum Exhibition Catalogue Hoffman: Tabalohos Mais Recentes, and various academic journals and anthologies of Canadian history, including The Canadian Historical Review and The British Journal of Canadian Studies. She has created content for multimedia projects, websites, television and radio, press releases, business plans, and promotional collateral.

Catherine’s communications work draws on both her global experience and her leadership roles in the cultural sector. She attended the World Economic Forum in 2000, an experience that grew out of her filmmaking and shaped her subsequent career path. Catherine was the Communications Manager at the Metcalf Foundation, a charitable foundation focusing on the environment, performing arts, and poverty reduction. In her earlier work with the Strategic Regional Research Alliance, she amplified research improving urban planning and transit in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area; and at Medicine Hat College, she managed a music and dance program, developing a strategic approach to community engagement in promoting the arts.

Catherine holds a B.A. (Hon) and M.A. in History from McGill University.