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Anne-Claire Poirier has spend most of career as a director, editor, and film producer working in the French section of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). There she is noted for the feminist content of her work. Prior to coming to the NFB, Poirier had been involved in various aspects of the media and the theater. Her first film for NFB was a televison documentary, Trente minutes Mr Plummer (1963). In 1967 she made a groundbreaking film about pregnancy and motherhood, De mere en fille that incited a lot of discussion about feminism in the Quebecois cinema. She, Jeanne Morazin and Monique Larocque the established 'En tant que femmes, ' a program for women at the NFB that lasted from 1972 to 1975 and included six films produced by Poirier. This film series offered female Quebecois filmmakers a serious forum in which to express their thoughts. Throughout her career, Poirier has continued to create provocative, and often controversial feminist films.