Chris Vautour

Chris Vautour is a French-Canadian, Hungarian settler living in the traditional territories of the Lekwungen peoples (Victoria, British Columbia). She has spent the last 25 years working in the film industry in Vancouver/Island as a location manager & scout. Chris has extensive on-set production experience and considers a film set her home. As an emerging filmmaker in 2022, Chris was awarded a Canada Council Grant to research her short doc, The Robin's Nest about a covert lesbian bar that ran for 33 years. Her short narrative about the same topic, was short-listed for Toronto's Inside Out Festival, Film Finance Forum. In 2019, she produced a short documentary with Violator Films for CBC Gem called "The Pilgrimage" about a spiritual quest on motorcycle event she organized for women.