Biografia
Born in Quebec City and holding a bachelor's degree from Laval University, Nancy Florence Savard began her television career in Montreal. After a decade working as a journalist, designer, director, product manager, and associate producer with major media groups in Montreal and Quebec City, she established her production company, 10th Ave Productions, in Saint-Augustin-De-Desmaures in 1998, while also raising her family of three children.
A trailblazer in computer-assisted animation, she co-produced and directed the first fully Canadian-made 3D animated feature, The Legend of Sarila (2013), which premiered theatrically that year. With this film, she became the first Canadian woman to direct an 80-minute stereoscopic (3D) feature. In 2014, after earning multiple awards at the Toronto International Film Festival, she received the Birks Diamond Tribute as a director—a recognition honoring women of the year in the film industry. That same year, she produced Le Coq de St-Victor, the first entirely Quebec-made French-language feature, which was later acquired by a major US studio for distribution in 98 countries.
In Spring 2018, 10th Ave Productions released its third fully Canadian-made animated feature, A Yeti Adventure (2017). In May 2019, the company was named film producer of the year by the Quebec Association of Media Producers. Following the reopening of cinemas in winter 2021, Nancy Florence Savard’s fourth animated feature, Felix and the Hidden Treasure (2021), was released theatrically in 67 cinemas across Quebec.
Dedicated to community engagement, Nancy Florence Savard serves on the board of directors for the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (Sodec). She chairs the Conseil national du cinéma et de la télévision (CNCT) and is concluding her co-presidency of the Table de concertation de l'industrie du cinéma et de la télévision de la Capitale-Nationale, which she founded in 2016 to represent the animation sector within the Quebec Association of Media Producers (AQPM). Her term at the Quebec Museum of Civilization ends this spring. Additionally, she spent ten years on the board of the Quebec City Summer Festival, including serving as chair from 2010 to 2012.
