Philippe Grégoire has a degree in Cinema and Comparative Literature from the Université de Montréal and a Master's degree in Communication in the profile of Experimental Media Creation from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She also trained at L'inis in screenwriting. His short films, one man, aquarium and Beep Beep, have been shown at more than 110 film festivals and in more than 20 different countries. Philippe Grégoire grew up in Napierville, a small farming community 45 kilometers from Montreal and close to the border between Canada and the United States. He found a way to pay for film school by working as a part-time customs officer and hated the job. Philippe has dual Canadian and Italian citizenship and, although he had a car with big wheels and a spoiler, he never worked at the racetrack in 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 work of self-fiction.