Marquise Lepage (born September 6, 1959, in Chénéville, Quebec),[1] is a Canadian (Québécoise) producer, screenwriter, and film and television director.

[5] Her other credits have included the documentary films Un soleil entre deux nuages,[6] Of Hopscotch and Little Girls,[7] Ma vie, c'est le théâtre and Martha of the North, the feature films La fête des rois[8] and Ce qu'il ne faut pas dire,[9] and episodes of the television documentary series Canada: A People's History.

[10] Lepage presided Quebec's film directors' association and Réalisatrices Équitables, a militant organization advocating equality between female and male filmmakers.

The first fiction film she directed and produced for the company was One Night Stand: A Modern Love Story (Ce qu'il ne faut pas dire), which came out in theatres in May 2015.

[16] She named her daughter after Alice Guy-Blaché, about whom she made the documentary The Lost Garden (Le Jardin oublié) in 1995.

In 2015, in order to finance the post-production of her latest feature film Ce qu’il ne faut pas dire (One Night Stand: A Modern Love Story), she decided to sell the house where she raised her children.

Simard gave Lepage her first break when she directed Marie s’en va-t-en ville, her first feature film.

[20] She also directed her second feature film, a children’s movie titled La fête des rois, starring a young Marc-André Grondin.

It tells the story a young filmmaker in her thirties (played by Annick Fontaine) who has a heavy secret which complicates her already unstable love life.

[29] A perpetual issue explored in Lepage's works, both documentaries and fictions, is childhood and injustices affecting children.

"[34] Her concerns were at the basis of her documentary The Lost Garden (Le Jardin oublié) about French-American filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché who lived from 1873 to 1968[31] and directed over 1,000 films but was forgotten by history.

[41]In 2013, as a sequel to Martha of the North, Lepage released the documentary web series and educational website Iqqaumavara.

[42] In a 1987 interview, Marquise said her work was influenced, among others, by the Quebecois films Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras), Sonatine, and It Can't Be Winter, We Haven't Had Summer Yet (Ça peut pas être l'hiver, on n'a même pas eu d'été).

[43] Best actress at the Gijón International Film Festival (Spain); 4 nominations at the Canadian Gemini Awards Ecumenical Prize at Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland Library Award at Cinéma du Réel festival (Paris).

[48] Bronze Apple at National Educational Media Network Competition (Oakland, California); Special Mention at Columbus International Film Festival (Ohio, US).

Gémeaux Awards: Best Documentary, Best Research, Best Editing; Golden Sheaf Award: Best Social Documentary (Canada); Grand Jury Prize, Communications and Society, Montréal (Canada); Bronze Plaque, Columbus International Film Festival (Ohio, US); Youth Award and Prix de l’État du Valais at Festival International Médias Nord-Sud (Geneva, Switzerland); Special mention at Turin Film Festival (Italy).