Documentary filmmaker Hélène Choquette has won multiple awards at home and internationally. She casts an unflinching yet empathetic gaze on people whose voices would otherwise remain silent, and consistently takes a grassroots approach to researching and writing her projects. Her films have focused on people and crucial issues ranging from foreign caregivers (A Better Life 2005) to environmental refugees (The Refugees of The Blue Planet 2006), the Chernobyl disaster victims (Children of Chernobyl 2006), human trafficking in Canada (Avenue Zero 2009), burmese boys exploited in a thai boxing camp (Fists of Pride 2012) and family struggles of women prisoners (Unité 9 le documentaire 2015). About her latest projects, Unité 9 le web documentaire has won the Public Award Prize at the Web Program Festival in Paris 2015 and her documentary Little Big Girls the Golden Sheaf Award for the Best Documentary Science/Nature and Technology in Yorkton in the spring 2015.