Michèle Bélanger has been at the National Film Board of Canada for 15 years, working in documentary marketing and distribution, animation, and Web production. Her passion for cinema dates back to her student days at Laval University, when she became interested in ethnographic documentary while studying ethnology and anthropology. In 1983, she joined the programming team of the Ciné-club de la Poudrière, a small repertory cinema in Quebec City that followed up screenings with discussions. Subsequently, she founded the Ciné-club Le Plateau, an organization that promoted first films.

Bélanger got her start at the NFB as a promotional officer at the in Quebec City. She conceived and planned launch strategies and promotional campaigns for NFB productions and coordinated launch activities and regional cultural events. She frequently travelled throughout the province on NFB film tours, gaining insights into the audiences for NFB productions. She also maintained her interest in emerging filmmakers, initiating the Vidéaste recherché(e) competition in cooperation with the Institut canadien de Québec.
In the fall of 2000, Bélanger was named Internet development agent at the Animation and Youth Studio. She produced the popular Ludovic Web site for pre-schoolers, and served as target audience expert during the development of La Mission, an ambitious Web project on science for youth.

In January 2002, Bélanger was named a producer in the studio. Among her first productions were Antagonia, the debut film by Nicolas Brault, winner of the 2000 Cinéaste recherché(e) competition, as well as Catherine Arcand's Cauchemar à l'école.

In 2004, Bélanger produced award-winning filmmaker Co Hoedeman's latest, Le théâtre de Marianne/Marianne's Theatre, as well as Dehors Novembre by Patrick Bouchard, and Cinéaste recherché(e) winner Frédérick Tremblay's  Un jour ordinaire pas comme les autres/Remote paradise.

Over the past year, Bélanger has been deeply involved with Web projects as well, producing the Web film La vie avec un brin de folie/That Crazy Game Called Life, by the Kiwistiti collective, and Cuckoo!, an interactive companion to Pierre M. Trudeau's Cuckoo films. The site, which is housed at NFB Kids, won a 2004 Boomerang award in the youth category.

Bélanger is currently working on the production of Catherine Arcand's new film, Cauchemar à l'école, and has just begun production on a new film by Jean-Francois Lévesque, the latest Cinéaste recherché(e) contest winner.

In addition to her work at the NFB, Bélanger has also served as a member of the board of directors of the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois film festival since 1999.