With a background in contemporary dance and design, Montreal filmmaker Marlene Millar created her first award winning dance film "The Woman and the Sink" in 1989. Marlene received her BFA in Film Production from Concordia University, Montreal, studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 1999 she received a Pew Dance-Media Fellowship at UCLA. Marlene also has an established career as a documentary film editor. In 2001 Marlene and Philip Szporer co-founded the arts film production company Mouvement Perpétuel. Recepients of numerous nominations and awards, their films have been featured on television, in festivals and at world events such as the 2010 Cultural Olympics, the World Exhibition in Shanghai, a UNESCO tour of Latin America and recently in retrospective at the Festival Quartiers Danses in Montreal. Ongoing projects include "Moments in Motion 2", a multi-platform documentary series and "Lost Action: Trace", a stereoscopic (3D) live action/animated film with co-director and choreographer Crystal Pite, animator Theodore Ushev and produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

Marlene also creates integrated film installations for performance, including "Quarantaine 4x4" and an upcoming new work with Charmaine LeBlanc for a 360 immersive dome. She has directed videos for dancer Louise Lecavalier, choreographer Lynda Gaudreau, spoken-word artist Ian Ferrier, and visual artist Sui Yee Wong among others. Millar has been mentoring emerging filmmakers since 1994 and has taught filmmaking workshops across Canada and the U.S., at the Centre Imagine in Burkino Faso, at ImpulzTanz in Vienna, recently in Nunavut and Helsinki, Finland.