Guylaine Maroist

Guylaine Maroist is a Canadian journalist, filmmaker, musician, scriptwriter and film director. She founded La Ruelle Films with Eric Ruel. She is well known for her documentary productions such as Gentilly or Not To Be, Time Bombs, Disunited States of Canada, God Save Justin Trudeau, Jukebox and Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age. In 2011 she received the Governor General's History Award for Popular History (The Pierre Berton Award) for her TV documentary series J’ai la mémoire qui tourne (My Memories On a Roll). She is President of Productions de la Ruelle, a documentary film production company in Montreal, and President of Les Artistes pour la Paix, a Quebec NGO advocating peace and nuclear disarmament. Her most recent film Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age [Je vous salue salope : la misogynie au temps du numérique], which she co-directed with Léa Clermont-Dion, is about cyberviolence against women. Guylaine Maroist has a DEC degree in Communications from College Jean-de-Brébeuf, a BAC in Arts from Université de Montreal, and a Certificate in Law from Université de Montreal. After graduation, Maroist worked as a music columnist for Le Devoir from 1992 to 1995, specializing in modern music. During that period, she also wrote for various magazines like The Artist (which she was the editor of in 1993) and Vamp. She freelanced for La Presse and Journal de Montreal on various topics.

In 1994, Maroist started working in the music industry and became deeply interested in Quebec's musical heritage. She and Denis Pantis of Discs Merit, Quebec's musical heritage archivist, created the definitive catalog of Quebec music records by the reissue of a hundred albums of major Quebec stars from 1950 to 1980.

In 1999-2001, Maroist led a major project to create a series of biographies of the best Quebec artists. For 70 musicographies in the creation of which she participated as researcher and director, she took nearly 2000 interviews, making it the largest research effort in the Quebec popular music industry. As a reviewer put it, "from now on, music finally takes the upper hand, in a radical departure from long novels and sensationalist bios."