Maude Michaud is an award-winning Montreal-based writer-director specializing in genre entertainment who has been making a name for herself over the past 20 years with films that use horror metaphors to address social issues. Her body of work includes over a dozen critically acclaimed short films which have toured the international festival circuit. Her debut feature film, DYS-, World Premiered to a sold out crowd at the 2014 Fantasia International Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature. She is currently in development on her second feature film.