As writer, producer and director, Francine Zuckerman has won numerous awards and her work has been recognized at film festivals around the world.

Francine Zuckerman and her company Z films inc. has produced a wide range of films and television programs with an emphasis on adaptation from fiction and theatre, social documentary and performing arts as well as short films.

Zuckerman first joined the National Film Board to co-produce and direct her first documentary film, Half the Kingdom, a controversial film about women and Judaism (NFB, Telefilm, TVO, Channel 4, SBS) was invited to participate in more than twenty international film festivals and won several awards.

Zuckerman produced and directed Exposure: environmental links to breast cancer, (CBC, TVO) a documentary hosted by singer/actor Olivia Newton-John which won the Best Health Documentary at the New York Film and Video Festival; a Canada - New Zealand co-production Punch Me in the Stomach, (OMDC, CBC, PBS, NZ On Air,TV3) starring Deb Filler which premiered at the London International Film Festival; The Atwood Stories (CMF, W Network, Rogers) based on the short stories of renowned Canadian author Margaret Atwood nominated for best dramatic anthology TV series by the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television and launched at FIPA (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels) and Passengers (Showcase, CBC, W Network) which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and then screened at film festivals around the world including Palm Springs, San Paulo and Vancouver.

We Are Here (The Documentary Channel, CMF) documents the revival of Jewish life in Poland seen through the eyes for five subjects and their families and has screened in cities including: Toronto, Vancouver, London, Berlin, Warsaw, Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney, Tel Aviv and New York City. She recently completed Mr. Bernstein (OAC), a short film about a young woman’s chance encounter with maestro, Leonard Bernstein which premiered at the Palm Springs Short Fest and won 'Best Drama' at the Toronto International Short Film Festival and Winner of ‘Best Short Film' Screen Guild New Zealand. Most recently, she produced and directed After Munich (The Documentary Channel, SRC, CMF) about the aftermath of the terrorist attack on eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

In addition to being a proud member of Film Fatales Canada, Zuckerman is also member of the The Gotham, New York; IDA, International Documentary Association; Directors Guild of Canada; has served as a jury member for the Ontario Arts Council, Media Arts Program; a jury member for the Canadian Screen Awards at The Academy of Film and Television and an early member of Femmes du Cinema de la Télévision et la Vidéo a Montréal.

A former Montrealer now living in Toronto, Francine’s work as a director is inspired by her profound connection to French Canada. After graduating from film at McGill University she studied directing at Columbia University, NYC and writing at Script Factory, London. She has won numerous awards and been recognized at film festivals around the world. Her strong cinematic vision is evident in her numerous documentaries and her love for working with actors is apparent in her fiction films. Her many films have taken her to New Zealand, England, Sweden, Poland, Germany and Israel.