Laura Bari is an Argentinian born Montreal based Canadian film director and producer. She studied pedagogy at Université du Québec à Montréal, specializing in psychopathology of the expression.
Between 1999 and 2002, Laura Bari directed over 300 documentary vignettes for a popular Québec television series entitled Cornemuse.[1] In many of her works, she combines education and art particularly as it relates to children education. In 2006 she conceived another hit children television show entitled Toc-toc-toc.
Her debut feature film was Antoine (2008), an-award winning documentary about a 5-year old blind boy named Antoine Houang living in Montreal, Quebec. Antoine is a daring, poetic, and playful docufiction that intimately explores the life of a brilliant and unique blind boy who is fully integrated into the regular school system in Montreal. The film is a homage to human resilience, optimism, and creativity.[2]
Antoine has played in over 30 international film festivals including Tribeca Film Festival in NYC, Hot Docs in Canada, Dok Leipzig in Germany, Sheffield Doc/Fest in England, Mar del Plata International Film Festival in Argentina and IDFA in Holland, winning multiple awards.
In 2013, Bari released Ariel, a feature documentary about a double amputee who sets out to rebuild his broken identity.[3] Her latest film, Primas, a portrait of two Argentinian teenagers who, in the wake of heinous acts that interrupted their childhoods, free themselves from the shadows of the past, premiered at the 2017 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and was released in 2018.[4][5][6]