Béatriz Mediavilla

Multidisciplinary artist, Béatriz Mediavilla was born in 1972, in Rouyn-Noranda, where she still lives today. Holder of a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in film studies, she teaches cinema at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue College. In parallel to her teaching, Ms Mediavilla has accomplished other works, including the multidisciplinary collective work Ce qu’il en reste : dialogue artistique sur la mort (2009). She published Des Espagnols à Palmarolle found in Nouvelles Explorations (2010), Contes, légendes et récits de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue (2011), and Entre les heures in Rouyn-Noranda Littéraire (2013). Dance with them, her first full-length documentary, was given great praise, and was presented in many festivals such as Montréal, Quebec City, Toronto and Vancouver, but also in Havana and New York City. According to Movement also had a great festival life in Canada, Scotland, France, Mexico and the United States where it won Best Dance Documentary at the Fine Art Film Festival in California and at the Utah Dance Film Festival. This film also won the prize for the best Canadian work at the Festival International du Film sur l'Art and allowed Béatriz Mediavilla to receive the Découverte prize at the most recent Prix de la danse de Montréal. In 2022, she won the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec prize: artist of the year in Abitibi-Témiscamingue.