Joan Montreuil makes films, writes books, keeps a working journal, and hosts a podcast — all built from the same questions, followed as far as each medium will take them.
Short documentaries and narrative work, shot on location over years, not weeks.
Long-form nonfiction and a memoir-in-progress, written between shoots.
Field notes, half-finished thoughts, and the research that doesn't fit anywhere else.
Long conversations with the people who show up in the films and books.
Every project starts
on the road
Looking longer than
feels comfortable
Nothing gets thrown
away
Finished, and released
while it matters
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Joan Montreuil is a filmmaker and writer whose work moves between documentary, prose, and audio without treating any one of them as the main event. A film becomes the spine of a book. A book becomes a season of conversations. The conversations become the next film.
Trained first as a journalist, Joan spent a decade shooting short documentaries before publishing a first book of essays drawn from that footage. The podcast started as a way to keep talking to people after the cameras stopped rolling — it's since become its own body of work.
"I don't think of these as four different jobs. It's one long conversation, and each form just changes how loud you have to speak." — Joan Montreuil
Based between two cities, currently in production on a new documentary and finishing a second book.
New episodes, chapters, and film releases — sent when there's something real to share, not on a schedule.