Martine Chartrand completed a BFA in visual arts at Concordia University and a certificate in art education from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She is a Quebecoise-Haitian painter and filmmaker. In 1992, she directed the award-winning short T.V. Tango, for the NFB. In 1994, she received a grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and from the Canada Council for the Arts enabling her to study in Russia under Alexander Petrov, a master of paint-on-glass animation. In 2000, she made her second NFB’s film, Black Soul. A paint-on-glass animated short that traces the memory of Black History, the film has won 23 awards, including the Golden Bear in Berlin 2001.