Jacques Blondin was born on 7 July 1965. After studying communication and scriptwriting for film at UQAM, he was involved in various film and television projects. In 1992, he produced about 20 shorts for La course destination monde, a CBC series. From 1992 to 1995, he made several visits to Russia, where he made the documentaries Les Loups and Ne parlez jamais avec l'inconnu with Stéphane Thibault.