MICHAELLE JEAN
 An award-winning reporter and host with a real passion for documentary films, Michaëlle Jean brings an insider's perspective to her duties as host of CBC Newsworld's THE PASSIONATE EYE: SUNDAY SHOWCASE, THE PASSIONATE EYE MONDAY, THE PASSIONATE EYE ON CBC TELEVISION and ROUGH CUTS.
As she introduces the best documentaries from Canada and around the world for CBC Newsworld, Jean also continues to be seen on RDI as host of the French-language documentary series Grands Reportages.
Since 1995, Jean has served as a host/reporter on many RDI programs such as Le Monde ce soir, L'Edition quebecoise, Horizons francophones, le Journal RDI and RDI à l'écoute. She has also dealt with challenging themes such as the Roman Catholic Church in a four-day debate entitled "Le Pape en France, pedophilia in L'enfance volée" and Chinese politics in "La rétrocession de Hong Kong à la Chine." Among her many awards: the Amnesty International Journalism Award in 1995 for a 15-part series on women; the 1994 Anik Prize for information reporting and the 2000 Galaxi Award for best information program host.
Jean has also worked with renowned filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond to produce three independent documentaries: L'heure de Cuba (1999), about the 40th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, Tropique Nord (1994) about being black in Quebec and the Hot Docs award-winning Haiti dans tous nos rêves (1995).
Jean joined Radio-Canada in 1988, serving as a reporter for Actuel, then the public affairs news show Montréal ce soir in 1989. From 1991-1992, she hosted Virages and for three years, starting in 1992, she appeared on the national and international news program Le Point.
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haïti, a young Michaëlle fled François Duvalier's regime in 1968, settling in Quebec with her family. Fluent in five languages - French, English, Spanish, Italian and Haitian Creole - Jean studied at the University of Montreal and universities in Florence, Milan and Perugia, Italy.
Catherine Olsen is the Executive Producer of Documentaries for CBC Newsworld. She's also the Series Producer and Commissioning Editor of the highly acclaimed documentary showcase The Passionate Eye which features some of the world's best, most provocative and creative documentaries. It's a position she's held for the past ten years. From 1993 to 2000, she also had the unique opportunity of hosting the program.
Catherine is one of the founding members of the Canadian Documentary Festival Hot Docs, and currently is a member of its international advisory board. She has also previously been on the executive board of the Canadian Independent Film Caucus (a professional lobby group for independent filmmakers). Last year she acted as an international advisor and commissioning editor for the award-winning Steps for the Future project, an international collaboration which produced 30 films and videos dealing with people living with HIV and Aids in Southern Africa. She is now a member of its international board.
Catherine began her 27 year career in television as a video editor, and quickly became Vancouver's first full-time female ENG cameraperson and videographer. After moving to Toronto in 1979 to join the CBC, she gained experience as a reporter, writer, documentary producer and director, and spent seven years at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's award winning program The Journal (the Canadian equivalent of Nightline) as a traveling Producer/on-air Journalist. Prior to returning to the CBC in 1993, Catherine programmed and hosted TVOntario's 'The Human Edge' where she created a niche for point of view documentaries.
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