The daughter of film director Denis Villeneuve,[3] she studied filmmaking at Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.[4] She has stated that her father's career, and the heavy exposure to the world of film that she received in childhood due to his passion for cinema, influenced her desire to become a filmmaker, but that she did not decide to pursue it until concluding that she needed to make her own path as a filmmaker rather than trying to live up to the expectations created by her father's fame.[4]
She made a number of student films, and had film crew roles including on the costume team for her father's film Arrival, before releasing III in 2022, as her first commercial release. The film premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, the only Canadian film to screen at Venice that year.[5]
