Born in a suburb of Quebec City, Stéphane Drolet is a multi-talented artist who won the Quebec Lieutenant-Governor's award for young writers in 1987 for his first published work and then decided to study filmmaking.

As an aspiring filmmaker who dreamed of being a comic book artist, he spent six months in 1990 participating in the Course Amérique-Afrique competition, during which he directed 26 short videos. He was subsequently offered a directing apprenticeship by the NFB. Drolet's reaction: "My life will be completely turned upside down! I've fallen into the cauldron of documentary." And indeed he did find himself working beside veteran documentarians Pierre Perrault, Bernard Gosselin and Martin Leclerc on the film Cornouailles (Icewarrior) (1996).

Not long after, Drolet went back to Africa to shoot Cendres et Soleil (1994) in Mali. His next film, Tout ira mieux ! (1995), was a tool to help young sexual assault victims. And then came the excitement of the Quebec Referendum in 1995. Overseeing a collective of 26 Aboriginal, Anglophone and Francophone filmmakers, he directed Referendum Take 2/Prise deux (1996), a film-event intended for national telecast in both English and French.

In Time and Away (2000) Stéphane wanted to refine the exploratory shooting method he had used in the past, this time following a dedicated group of researchers and a talented watchmaker to get us to think about our obsession with time.

In 2005 he directed the NFB film Story of a Mediation.