Léa Clermont-Dion is a writer, filmmaker and post-doctoral student in Art Education at Concordia University. Her Ph.D. thesis was about online anti-feminist discourses in Quebec. In recent years, she has published several books, including the bestselling La revanche des moches, Les superbes, Lettres à un souverainiste and Crève avec moi, her first foray into fiction writing. She was also the co-scriptwriter for Beauté fatale, which aired on Télé-Québec (2014). She co-directed and co-wrote with Gianluca Della Montagna the documentary T’as juste à porter plainte, which aired on Noovo. For close to 15 years, Clermont-Dion has been involved in social movements to emancipate women. She has given more than 200 talks on topics related to feminist issues, notably at the Council of Europe. She was also awarded a Vanier Canada.

After completing her studies in Cinema and Musicology at the Université de Montréal, Guylaine Maroist worked as a freelance journalist for Le Devoir in the early 1990s. In 2002, she founded La Ruelle Films to produce POV documentaries with producer and director Eric Ruel. She has garnered several awards in Canada and abroad, including a Governor General’s History Award, a Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the New York International Independent Film Festival, a Gold Ribbon Award, and three Gémeaux awards. Her recent films include God Save Justin Trudeau, Expo 67 Mission Impossible, Jukebox: Sing, Twist and Shout!, and Gentilly or Not to Be, which helped bring about the permanent shutdown of the Gentilly II nuclear plant. In 2015, she was appointed a member of the NGO Pugwash, becoming the first filmmaker in history to join the ranks of an organization that, since 1957, has influenced the United Nations and state leaders in matters related to global peace and nuclear disarmament. In 2021–2022, Guylaine Maroist was a guest professor at UQAM university’s media school.