Aimée Danis

Aimée Danis (September 19, 1929 - May 8, 2012) was a Canadian film director and producer from Quebec.

Originally from Maniwaki, Quebec, she worked as a script assistant for Télévision de Radio-Canada, and later for Jacques Godbout on his film YUL 871, before becoming the first woman in Quebec's film and television industry to direct television commercials.

[1] Her advertising work included spots for Hydro-Québec, Dominion, Desjardins and Peugeot.

[3] In the 1970s she directed a number of short documentary films, including KW+ (1970), Gaspésie oui, j'écoute (1972), Joie de vivre au Québec (1974) and Patrick, Julie, Félix et tous les autres (1974), the narrative television film Souris, tu m'inquiètes (1973),[4] and episodes of the television series Vingt ans Express (1967), La feuille d’érable (1969) for Onyx Films and Jo Gaillard (1975).

She was married to film director Guy Fournier, with whom she was a partner in Les Productions du Verseau.