Françoise Romand
Rights reserved: Françoise Romand 2022 - Photo credits Matthieu Constance - Photo taken from his website.
Rights reserved: Françoise Romand 2022 - Photo credits Matthieu Constance - Photo taken from his website.
1977, exit from IDHEC (FEMIS), The wellknown French school of cinema, Françoise Romand directed a short film « Encounters... » then she works as a director's assistant and assembler Until 1985. She will be trained at this school of documentary which flirts with humor and facet with fiction. In 1985, his first film « Mix-Up or Mélo Mélo » (documentary-fiction) will start a career in English and a critical success in the USA. "Call me madam," confirms his style at the border of documentary and fiction, Golden Prize Gate Award, which will lead her to teach film at Harvard (1999 - 2000).1987She is the winner of Villa Medicis outside the walls in the USA.1995, the Film Center Art Institute (Chicago Museum) organizes a retrospective of its first films.In 1999-2000, at the turn of the century, she teaches cinema at the University of Harvard, USA, where in connection with her film work, she explores the ramifications on the Internet, invents the first webdoc "IKitchenEye" and organizes happenings on the underground scene Paris with her Ciné-Romand, whose DVD she released in 2009. His first fiction, « Past Composed, » is presentedat the Week of Criticism at the Venice MostraHis self-fiction, "Theme I", will evolve for 10 years in different versions until the final engraved on DVD in 2011.In 2019 Retrospective in Turin2020, the SCAM (Société Civile de Auteurs Multimedias), awarded him the Charles Brabant Prize for all of his work.In 2021, Jonathan Rosenbaum ranked "Mix Up" among the10 best women's movies of all time.In 2022a newCiné-Romandwill be reiteratedin Marseille on Saturday 3 Decemberfollowing the film Femme Méditerranée where some of his films will be screened.
Biography from her website. (external link)
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