Born in New Brunswick, Canada to Haitian parents, Henri Pardo is the writer and director of ‘Kanaval’, which won the Air Canada Audience Award at the 2023 Cinémania Film Festival. ‘Kanaval’ also won the 2023 Amplify Voices Award for best BIPOC Canadian Feature and an honorable mention for best Canadian film at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. Henri is co-producer, director and co-writer of Afro-Canada, a documentary series on the history of Afro-Canadians, nominated for the 2023 Gémeaux. In 2020 and 2021, Pardo filmed the feature documentary ‘Dear Jackie’ in partnership with Documentary Channel (CBC) and produced by CatBird Productions; it won the Magnus Isacsson Prize at the 2021 RIDM and has been broadcast on CBC/Gem since February 2023.Henri is a graduate of the National Institute of Image and Sound (INIS) and is a founding member of Black on Black Films.
