Louise Abbott is a professional writer, photographer, and documentary filmmaker in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. She is a partner in Rural Route Communications (www.ruralroutecommunications.com), a small audio-visual production house, and a member and former president of an artists' cooperative that runs a gallery and cultural centre called Studio Georgeville (www.studiogeorgeville.com). 

She has dedicated most of her career to exploring the culture, heritage, and natural environment of rural and indigenous communities in Canada and abroad as well as the social and environmental challenges facing these communities.

She is the author of seven books, including Memphrémagog: An Illustrated History (2 volumes, 2017), Eeyou Istchee: Land of the Cree (2010), and The Heart of the Farm: A History of Barns and Fences in the Eastern Townships of Quebec (2008).

She has participated in photography exhibitions in Canada, Mexico, and Europe. Her photographs are found in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank, the National Gallery of Canada, Library and Archives Canada, the McCord Museum, the Edmonton Art Gallery, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery. They have also been published in more than thirty photo books, such as Children in Photography—150 Years, Montréal au XXe siècle, Regards du Québec, Hivers, Une Histoire des Québécoises en Photos, and Photogenic Montreal.

Abbott has directed numerous documentary films, including Nunaaluk: A Forgotten Story (2014), which was a finalist in the Best Documentary Short category at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco and won the Best Film by an Established Filmmaker Award at the Jasper Film Festival.

Between 2019 and 2021, Abbott completed several films:

Driving into the Past: A History of Covered Bridges in Quebec

Niels Jensen, Cabinetmaker This half-hour documentary will be broadcast on WNED PBS (Buffalo-Toronto) in 2022.

Carla Straessle, Jeweller

The Ayer's Cliff Fair: Then and Now This half-hour documentary will be broadcast on WNED PBS (Buffalo-Toronto) in 2022.

CRUX: The Transformation of AnneBruce Falconer (This film is an official selection of FIFA (International Festival of Films on Art) in Montreal in March 2022. 

https://lefifa.com/en/catalog/crux-the-transformation-of-annebruce-falconer?fbclid=IwAR3A09y4iopcHRe50QhRvRFcEGKmMUV7-qGSwBJQOEDvLD2wxOIVVsvZRVA

The Sugarmakers and other films in the Out on the Land film series. The Sugarmakers will be broadcast on WNED PBS (Buffalo-Toronto) in 2022.

She also completed eight video poems as companion pieces to a poetry anthology called Emergence: Contemporary Women Poets of the Eastern Townships of Quebec.

Examples of Abbott's films may be found on Vimeo:

https://vimeo.com/louiseabbott

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