Candice Vallantin is a director, producer, and story editor based in Vancouver, B.C., on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people. She often explores themes of duality, belonging and doubt.

Her first short-film Monday (2018) won Best Experimental Film at the Oregon Short Film Festival. It is featured on the online filmmaking platforms 4:3, NoBudge, FilmShortage, and Minute Short and was screened at 13 festivals around the world. Six Mothers (2019) won the Depict! Royal Photographic Society Award at the Encounters Film Festival and a Special Jury Mention at the Festival Internacional VideoDanza Buenos Aires. Her mid-length documentary Holy Cow (2019) was commissioned by the Al Jazeera Documentary Network and won best documentary at the Delhi International Film Festival.

Her most recent film, Anonymous Confidant (2026) is a hybrid documentary in post. She is currently developing her first feature film, This Third Place, a documentary about life’s beginnings middles and ends in the context of community centres with support from Creative BC and The Canada Council for the Arts.

Born in France and raised in Canada, she is fluent in French and Spanish and has lived and worked in six cities spanning three continents. When not making independent films, she works as a story editor, story producer and development producer in factual TV.