[2] Barbeau produced more than 700 music videos for international artists such as (Celine Dion, Arcade Fire, Daniel Lanois, Tragically Hip, ) with NúFilms[3] which he founded with Bernard Nadeau, Stéphane Raymond and Jean-François Lord in May 2000.

After several MuchMusic Video Awards,[4] Victoires de la Musique and Grammy Award[5][6] nominations, NuFilms ends production due to the financial impacts of illegal downloading of music during Napster's surge.

[7][8] This inspires him to write and direct his 1st feature, Après la neige,[9][8] which premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival.

[10] Under Reprise Films, Barbeau produces six Canadian features including Jo for Jonathan)[11] directed by Maxime Giroux,and Roméo Onze directed by Ivan Grbovic.

[14] In recent years, Barbeau's focus has mainly shifted from directing to producing star-driven American feature films, co-producing films like Pieces of a Woman[15] and To Catch a Killer[16] and more recently, Executive Producer on Woman of the Hour,[17] directed by and starring Anna Kendrick and Novocaine (2025 film) starring Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder and Ray Nicholson.