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Nicolas Boone

Nicolas Boone : I come from a fine arts background. I have made around thirty short films in France and abroad. Always with a strong desire for life, my films cross territories and are inhabited by multiple actors, crowds of extras and often various animals. They are screened at international film festivals and shown as …

Sylvestre Meinzer

Sylvestre Meinzer is an anthropologist, photographer and film director. After working in costume and scenography, she joined the Mission du Patrimoine Ethnographique and the CNRS in Ivry. Since her education at Ateliers Varan and École des Gobelins, she has worked in documentary film and fine art photography. She exhibits her work in museums and art …

Claire Doyon

Claire Doyon directed her first feature film Les Lionceaux in 2002, selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. She then directed: The wind blows where it wants, Kataï, Dark avenues, Arsenic, Chrishna/Ombwiri, films selected at international festivals including Locarno, Venice, Turin, FID Marseille, Clermont-Ferrand, side court Pantin and for which she won …

Jean-Marie Pernelle

Involved in audiovisual since 2004 and sensitive to the capacity of mobilizing images in social debates, Jean-Marie Pernelle has been involved for several years in the production of investigative documentaries in the Indian Ocean region. Involved in the actions of the Docmonde association, he recently participated in several writing residencies in order to develop creative …

Cécile Laveissière

Cécile Laveissière : I arrived in 2004 on the Island of Reunion, with the plan to live outside France to meet other ways of life, other people, another territory. Today, thanks to the confidence gained and various encounters, I have linked my destiny to Reunion Island by working, in a personal, associative and professional capacity, …