After studying at Concordia, Serge Noël began as producing with the 1996 documentary Voisin Mur à Mur. His first narrative feature production was From the Peak to the Heart in 2001. This followed by Victor Pellerin in 2006. Both films won awards at international film festivals. For television he produced Contact, the Encyclopedia of Creation in 2006. In 2015 he produced his most internationally recognised film, Early Winter for Australian director Michael Rowe that premiered at the Venice Film Festival and won the Venice Days Jury Prize. He produced Fatima in 2016, which won three César Awards including Best Film. In 2019, he produced It Must Be Heaven from renowned Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, which was awarded a special mention at the Cannes Film Festival. He received her first APSA nomination as a producer of the film, which was nominated for the Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO. As a director he has made the short films Video Fragment No. 32 in 2008 and Tomorrow I’ll Go to the Fields in 2011.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
