Paula Bourgie is a Montréal-born filmmaker and animator whose work often blends genres and mediums. Her precise visual style and whimsical universes are anchored in themes of nostalgia, family, death and identity. Her films strive to investigate the good and the bad of human nature, with a focus on morally ambiguous protagonists and stranger-than-fiction settings. Since 2018, Paula has been working on her short film trilogy “Nostalgie”, exploring the liminal space between teenage and adulthood and the fear of change. Her award-winning Columbia MFA thesis film « The Loon » completes the trilogy, following “Vestiges” (2018) and “Les Aventuriers de l’Ouest” (2020). Alongside her shorts, Paula is developing feature-length scripts and a limited-series as well as completing her stop-motion short, “The Undertaker’s Daughter”, which she designed, built and animated during the pandemic.