2024

Mathilde Chavanne is a French filmmaker living and working in Paris. After studying at the Beaux-Arts in France and the Netherlands, she turned to cinema, making her first film with G.R.E.C.. Her latest short, Pleure pas Gabriel, produced by Apaches films, premiered at the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes in May 2023. It was selected for the Ateliers Musique et Cinéma at Premiers Plans in 2020. His previous films, Simone est partie, Noée dans la tempête, Amour(s) and Quelque chose brûle have been shown and won awards at festivals including the Directors’ Fortnight, Premiers Plans and Clermont-Ferrand.... In 2022, Mathilde Chavanne was one of the 12 talents to watch at the short film festival. She is currently working on her first feature film, À la recherche du miraculeux, for which she won a residency at the Moulin d’Andé in 2021 and attended the screenplay workshop at La Fémis in 2023.

Margaux Elouagari graduated with a degree in film studies from the Université?de Lille 3, and then took further training with Pictanovo. There she developed a short film project, Jouons, which she directed as a self-production, as well as other projects that she wrote alone, such as Mise à nue. She then wrote and directed La Ducasse, her first professional short film produced by the ompaný Les Quatre Cents Films and selected? in competition at the Clermont Ferrand Festival. Princesses, her second short film, will also be selected? at the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival (in national and international competition) as well as at the Créteil International Women’s Film Festival and the Pantin Coté Court Festival. She is now writing her first feature film, Nouveau monde.

Clara Lemaire Anspach, who graduated from CEEA in 2019, is a screenwriter and director. She has worked as assistant director on several French and Icelandic feature films. In 2021, she joined the writing team of En Thérapie season 2 and directed her first short film in 2022, Toutes les deux (Topshot), which was supported by the CNC’s Aide avant Réalisation and won two acting awardsforitslead actress Mara Taquin. She is currently developing her first feature film, Hôtel Saga, produced by Le Bureau

Marie Loustalot is a director and editor born in 1986. She joined the editing department at La Fémis, graduating in 2012. Since then, she has made five short films, including Les Chemises ouvertes, which won the Beaumarchais-Sacd prize at the Brest Festival in 2013, and À nous deux! which wasselected for Locarno, Clermont-Ferrand and Côté Court de Pantin in 2019. At the same time, she has been working on Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s films since 2015, as an actress and scriptwriter. She edited Léa Mysius’s latest feature, Les Cinq Diables (Directors’ Fortnight 2022) and Morgan Simon’s Une vie rêvée (scheduled for release in 2024). She is currently developing her first feature film, Enfin seuls, co-written with her brother Arthur Loustalot, on the theme of family breakdown in adolescence. The project is co-produced by Elsa Klughertz (Jonas Films) and Mélissa Malinbaum (Face Nord Films) and was awarded development aid from the CNC in 2022.

After working on a number of films as a script supervisor, Mathilde Profit directed her first short film, Un adieu, in 2019 (winner of the Prix d’interprétation at Premiers Plans and the Prix Jean Vigo in 2020, nominated for a César in 2021). In 2022, she directed her second film, Perdre Léna, which is in the early stages of release. She is currently writing her first feature film, Je ne connais pas de monde meilleur, still with Apaches films.