À propos
Club Vidéo
Club Vidéo, founded in 2019 in Montreal, is a film production company dedicated to creative exploration and atypical artistic journeys. Valuing risk-taking, expanding possibilities, and horizontal collaboration, the company has produced around 15 short films, including Mothers and Monsters (2023, TIFF, Palm Springs), Ain’t no Time for Women (2020, IDA, Dok Leipzig, Slamdance, Hot Docs), and See You Garbage (2021, Slamdance, FNC, Clermont-Ferrand). Club Vidéo is currently developing five feature films, including three documentaries and two fictions.
We acknowledge that we are in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), unceded indigenous territory and gathering place of the Kanien’kehà:ka nation.
Isabelle Grignon-Francke
Biography
Producer, director, and co-founder of Club Vidéo, Isabelle Grignon-Francke has produced more than a dozen short films since entering the field. She has also produced two feature-length documentaries for television broadcast: Les Collectionneurs (dir. Sarra El Abed), filmed in Egypt, which explores the complex journeys of several enthusiasts seeking to archive decades of Arabic music; and Virage vert (dir. Amélie Hardy), a film about the regulatory obstacles to ecological innovation.
Isabelle is currently developing her first feature films intended for theatrical release. In December 2025, she completed principal photography on Parrandas, a feature-length documentary by Constance Chaput-Raby, shot entirely in Cuba. The film explores the relationship between danger and celebration through the lens of fireworks battles.
Trained and practicing as a journalist (Radio-Canada, La Presse), Isabelle has always been drawn to fieldwork and to engaging with a real, dynamic world. Alongside her professional career, she completed a master’s degree in research-creation with a specialization in experimental media in 2026. Her thesis-creation focuses on narrative hospitality and methods for representing otherness. As a director, her debut film L’Artifice (2023) was selected at RIDM and Hot Docs before being acquired by The New York Times.
Isabelle has a distinctive interest in intimate stories, artistic risk-taking, and international productions.