After studying film at Université de Montréal, Stéphane Thibault directed two medium-length documentaries, Les loups (1995) and Ne parlez jamais avec l’inconnu (1996), the latter won Best Video Documentary at the Festival Internacional de Cinema de Figueira da Foz in Portugal. In 1998, he made Le beau Jacques (Grand Prix, international competition, Festival international du documentaire de Marseille). In 2002, he directed The Righteous (Claude Jutra Award at the Rendez-vous du Cinéma québécois). In 2007, he co-directed with Isabelle Lavigne Junior, a feature documentary (Best Canadian Documentary, Hotdocs, Toronto). Three years after, in 2010, Stéphane and Isabelle released a new documentary, At Night They Dance.