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Laetitia Demessence is a Franco-Spanish director and screenwriter who grew up in Spain, Indonesia and Chile, before emigrating to Canada to study cinema at the University of Montreal. After graduating, she explored filmmaking through various fiction short films, art and dance films. She then graduated from the Feature Film Writing program at INIS, where she developed her first feature-length fiction film, for which she received the Louise Spickler Excellence Scholarship. Laetitia is currently working on this first feature film, entitled After the Ashes. It is financed by Telefilm Canada’s Talents to Watch program and the Quebec Council for the Art.