--- name: "Johane Matte" canonical: "https://film.one/person/johane-matte" fi1m_id: "johane-matte" imdb_id: "nm3028578" tmdb_id: 1891091 wikidata_id: "Q109317349" roles: ["Director"] reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-22T03:30:20.315249+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Johane Matte ## Identity Johane Matte - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/johane-matte - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** johane-matte - **IMDb ID:** nm3028578 - **TMDB ID:** 1891091 - **Wikidata ID:** Q109317349 - **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109317349, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3028578/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1891091 Director. Born in Amos, Québec, Canada. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Active:** 2016–present - **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 writing - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (1), 2020s 54 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109317349, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3028578/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1891091 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia*](https://film.one/tv/trollhunters-tales-of-arcadia.md) (80) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Johane Matte > We rate Johane Matte’s contribution to *Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia*: its creatures are engaging company even when the storytelling thins. The work is shared, but it gives us reason to follow her directing. The troll mentors in *Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia* (2016) remain interesting to look at while they talk. Their designs have enough personality to survive the first impression, so the pleasure does not depend on another action scene arriving. We grew fond of them because their humour and warmth made the familiar fantasy easy to settle into. Johane Matte helped direct a programme whose creatures are its strongest attraction, and which earns our recommendation for family viewing. Matte’s earlier feature work was in story and storyboarding, with credits on *How to Train Your Dragon* (2010), *Kung Fu Panda 2* (2011) and *Rise of the Guardians* (2012). The move into directing came on *Trollhunters*, where she directed eight episodes and served as story supervisor on 26. Those overlapping jobs make her a substantial contributor to the programme, although they do not let us assign every successful visual choice to her personally. Guillermo del Toro created the series, and Rodrigo Blaas and Elaine Bogan are also among its directors. The team’s achievement is to give the creatures enough character that they need not be doing something spectacular to justify our attention. The engaging voice cast helps, but the storytelling remains familiar and sometimes thin; good company cannot make every stretch equally satisfying. We like the programme without needing to pretend that its warmth resolves those weaknesses. Matte went on to direct episodes of *3Below: Tales of Arcadia* (2018) and *Wizards: Tales of Arcadia* (2020), and to co-direct the feature *Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans* (2021). Her directing work across those titles shows a sustained involvement in this shared fantasy, rather than a single visit to it. That continuity is worth noting, but our recommendation rests on the original programme’s appealing creatures and easy humour. Start there for the troll mentors, with a little patience for the plotting. ## Biography Johane Matte is a Canadian animation director and former storyboard artist. She directed episodes of the Netflix series *Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia* (2016–2018), *3Below: Tales of Arcadia* (2018–2019) and *Wizards: Tales of Arcadia* (2020), as well as the feature film *Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans* (2021). Born in 1971 in Amos, Québec, Matte attended Algonquin College from 1989 to 1991, initially studying graphic design before switching to television animation. She worked as a storyboard artist on several DreamWorks Animation features, including *Kung Fu Panda 2* (2011), *Rise of the Guardians* (2012) and *Puss in Boots: The Last Wish* (2022). She won an Annie Award in 2013 for her storyboarding on *Rise of the Guardians*. Matte has also worked as a comic book artist and writer, contributing to titles such as the *Avatar Legends* comics. *Sources: imdb.com, avatar.fandom.com, talesofarcadia.fandom.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) ### Directed (1) — the average rests on these - *Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia* (2016), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/trollhunters-tales-of-arcadia.md) ### Wrote (1) - *Kung Fu Panda 4* (2024), Fi1m 54, Story Artist — [page](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-panda-4.md) ## Complete filmography (10) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Kung Fu Panda 4* (2024), Story Artist — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-panda-4.md) - *Orion and the Dark* (2024), Additional Storyboarding - *Puss in Boots: The Last Wish* (2022), Story Artist - *Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans* (2021), Director - *Wizards: Tales of Arcadia* (2020), series, Director - *3Below: Tales of Arcadia* (2018), series, Director - *Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia* (2016), series, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/trollhunters-tales-of-arcadia.md) - *Rise of the Guardians* (2012), Story Artist - *Kung Fu Panda 2* (2011), Story Artist - *The Penguins of Madagascar* (2008), series, Storyboard --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/johane-matte