Caroline Monnet is an Anishinaabe/French multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais, Québec, currently based in Montréal. She studied both Sociology and Communication at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and the University of Granada (Spain) before pursuing a career in visual arts and film.

Monnet’s short films have screened at numerous festivals including Toronto International Film Festival (Ikwé, Warchild, Mobilize, Tshiuetin, Creatura Dada, Emptying the Tank), Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (Gephyrophobia), Sundance Film Festival (Mobilize), and Palm Springs (Mobilize). She won a Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Film Festival for Best experimental film for Mobilize. She was nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards: Best Short Drama for Roberta and Best Short Documentary for Tshieutin. She is currently working on her first feature film entitled Bootlegger, selected for both CineMart and Berlinale Co-Production Market 2016. That same year, she was selected for the prestigious Cinéfondation residency in Paris. The project won Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival 2017, an award granted by Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC) and Cinéfondation. 

Monnet is also an accomplished visual artist with exhibitions at the Whitney Museum (NYC), Toronto Biennial of Art, Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff), Division Gallery (Montreal), Contemporary Art Museum (Montreal), Arsenal Contemporary (New-York), and the National Art gallery (Ottawa); and upcoming at the Shirn Kunstalle (Frankfurt) and the Museum of Fine Arts (Montréal).