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Rebecca Lessard is a filmmaker, editor, and archival researcher born and raised in Tio’tia:ke / Montreal, with a BA in Communication Studies from Concordia University. Working across documentary film, participatory media, and community-based storytelling, her work often explores history, identity, and social realities.
Her recent credits as a film editor include the feature documentaries So Surreal: Behind the Masks (Official Selection TIFF, VIFF) and RED FEVER (Hot Docs Audience Top 20), which she also co-produced, as well as the CBC Passionate Eye documentary Michelle Ross: Unknown Icon. She has also worked as an archival researcher on numerous award-winning documentary film and television projects.
Rebecca previously co-facilitated digital storytelling workshops with refugee youth and contributed to the COHDS project Mapping Memories: Participatory Media, Place-based Stories & Refugee Youth. She has also collaborated on film and media creation projects with Inuit youth in Nunavik and with Indigenous communities across Quebec through Wapikoni Mobile.
