Olivier Godin studied cinema at Ahuntsic College, then at Concordia University. His short films La Boutique de Forge (2012) and Bengal Fire (2014) each won the award for best Canadian short film at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. In 2013, she received the CALQ Prize for Full Love, elected best work of art and experimentation. In 2014, a first retrospective of his work was presented at the Cinémathèque Québécoise, the same year that Nouvelles, Nouvelles, his highly acclaimed second feature film, was released. He is also the author of the feature films Les arts de la parole (2016), Waiting for April (2018) and There is no false profession (2020). Ireland Blue Notebook is his sixth feature film.