After his studies in cinema at the Université de Montréal (from 1999 to 2002), Simon Beaulieu began work on a documentary on the painter Serge Lemoyne. The film Lemoyne was well received by critics and this recognition was backed up by screenings at numerous festivals in Quebec and elsewhere. The filmmaker was a critic for the magazine Séquences from 2002 to 2005, where he mostly covered Quebec film festivals. A keen observer of Quebec culture, seen in both its political and its artistic dimensions, in 2011 he completed the film GODIN, a documentary feature about the Quebec poet and politician Gérald Godin.