Rodeo FX Hires MPC Film's Émilie Dussault as SVP of Corporate Affairs in 20th Anniversary Year
Rodeo FX has appointed Émilie Dussault, the executive who built MPC Film's Montreal studio from scratch, as its new Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, as first reported exclusively by Deadline.
The Montreal-based visual effects firm announced the hire on 10 August 2026, coinciding with its 20th anniversary year. Dussault takes on a portfolio spanning government relations, public affairs and industry relations, along with brand, marketing and communications — a brief that touches nearly every part of the company's outward-facing identity.
Dussault is best known for launching MPC Film's Montreal operations in 2013 and scaling the studio to more than 1,250 artists and technicians within five years. She later served as President of both the Conseil du patronat du Québec, Quebec's largest employers' association, and the Bureau du cinéma et de la télévision du Québec, the provincial body that coordinates the screen-production sector. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production from Concordia University and a Master's in Management from HEC Montréal.
Rodeo FX, led by CEO Sébastien Moreau, has been expanding aggressively. Over the 18 months preceding Dussault's appointment, the company acquired Mikros Animation to establish a foothold in France and opened a new studio in Bangalore, India. The firm's visual effects credits read like a tour of prestige television and blockbuster cinema: Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, The Rings of Power, John Wick: Chapter 4, Dune, and season four of House of the Dragon. Rodeo FX's own website now lists Dussault as SVP, Corporate Affairs on its executives and about pages (rodeofx.com).
The company also picked up three nominations in the Creative Arts Emmy Awards categories for 2026, announced on 8 July. The nominated projects are described on Rodeo FX's news page as featuring kaijus, clowns and spaceships (rodeofx.com).
Bringing in an executive with Dussault's track record of studio-building and policy experience signals where a mid-sized VFX house sits in a consolidating global industry. The company is adding capacity across continents — France, India, and its Montreal base — and now has a senior leader tasked with managing how that footprint is represented to governments, guilds and clients simultaneously.
For audiences, the films and series Rodeo FX works on will keep arriving on screens regardless of who holds the corporate-affairs title. But the hire reflects the mechanics behind those images: every dragon, kaiju and spaceship is the product of a company betting on talent, geography and tax policy in equal measure.
