François Miron began makings films in 1982, working exclusively with emulsion, the body of his early work consist of several short experimental films, all created using a powerful film image manipulation technique that he has mastered: optical printing, in 1990 he received an MFA in filmmaking from The School of The Art Institute Of Chicago where he went under a full merit scholarship, all of his films have been screened in festivals and all sorts of venues throughout the world, his work received countless awards and true underground acclaim, since 1993 he has been teaching optical printing, filmmaking, and technical aspects of films at the Mel Hoppenheim School Of Cinema in Montreal. Besides several short film projects, in 2007 he has completed production on The 4th Life a 35mm. feature film project written with James Galwey, the feature is now completed and has had international festival release. In 2008 he won a Juno Award for his photographic work for Arcade Fire, the same year he won the Prix a la creation artistique from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for his film Hymn to Pan.