Philippe Grégoire holds a Bachelors degree in Film and Comparative Literature from the Université de Montréal and a Masters degree in Communication in the Experimental Media Creation profile from the Université du Québec à Montréal He also graduated from Linis in screenwriting His short films one man aquarium and Beep Beep have been presented in over 110 film festivals and in over 20 different countries Philippe Grégoire grew up in Napierville a small agricultural community 45 kilometres away from Montreal and close to the CanadaUnited States border He found a way to pay his film school tuition fees by working as a parttime customs officer and he hated the job Philippe has dual Canadian and Italian citizenship and although he once owned a car with big wheels and a spoiler he never worked at the drag strip of his hometown and his parents were the proud owners of a hardware store The Noise of Engines is his first feature film and his first autofiction work