Sixteen companies, all members of UniFrance, join the delegation to present 35 exciting projects at Sheffield DocFest. Their varied formats, durations and stages of progress, reflect the diversity of French documentary forms and the quality of the artistic proposals developed by our producers and talents. Don’t wait! Check out French newest projects presented at Sheffield DocFest!
Meet the French Delegation:
Anouk Tertrais | Producer
En tant que chargée du développement et de la production chez Eivissa Productions depuis un an, nous cherchons à défendre un cinéma d'auteur qui a pour sujets principaux la jeunesse et les relations LGBTQIA+.
Didar Domehri | Producer
Didar Domehri founded the company Maneki Films (IFCIC award 2017 - best young independent production company) in 2009. She produced 16 feature films, for the most part selected in the most prestigious festivals.
Eve Brémond | Producer
Eve Brémond started out on the production of features, her career shifted towards distribution -sales and acquisition- at StudioCanal, Gaumont and TF1. She produced WONDER BOY for Canal+ awarded at Tribeca Films Festival
What is your favourite documentary of all time? The Salt of the Earth
What film/s are you most looking forward to at this year's Sheffield DocFest? Summer of Soul - The witches of the Orient - No Straight Lines: The Rise of queer Comics
What do you consider is the best documentary from your nation or region? L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot
Jérôme Blesson | Producer
Im a French producer, based in Montpellier, looking for new collaborations and ways to boost our films' visibility and career, also to better accompany our documentaries in current development or financing
Lionel Guedj | Director/Producer
After studying history & philosophy, I've started acting in the music business. I started directing documentaries in 2004. My debut feature doc, Rock'n'roll...Of Corse! was Official selection @ Cannes.
What is your favourite documentary of all time? Don't look back
Loïs Rocque | Producer
Loïs Rocque is a French producer, aiming to develop European and international coproductions inside his company, Les Alchimistes (production and theatrical releases).
What is your favourite documentary of all time? Space Dogs by Elsa Kremser & Peter Levin
What film/s are you most looking forward to at this year's Sheffield DocFest? Avi Mograbi's The First 54 Years
What do you consider is the best documentary from your nation or region? At Sheffield ? Perhaps David Dufresne's. Of all time, Makala by Emmanuel Gras
Pierre Filmon | Director & Producer
I made 5 shorts, the doc CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH VILMOS ZSIGMOND (in Cannes FF Official Selection in 2016), a feature LONG TIME NO SEE (74mn) selected to 26 IFF (Moscow, Shanghaï, Morelia, GOA...) out in theaters this fall
What is your favourite documentary of all time? Grizzly man
What film/s are you most looking forward to at this year's Sheffield DocFest? My Childhood My Country
What do you consider is the best documentary from your nation or region? Einsatzgruppen
Quentin Daniel | Producer
Holder of a Masters Degree in Film and TV Studies, I worked in acquisitions before attending the Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris La Femis training dedicated to young european producers then I launched Wombat Films in 2015.
What is your favourite documentary of all time? West of Memphis
What film/s are you most looking forward to at this year's Sheffield DocFest? Carlos Ghosn : The Last Flight, Alone Together
What do you consider is the best documentary from your nation or region? Les Invisibles (The Invisibles)
Righi Emanuela | Producer
After Literature studies at the University of Genoa in Italy, Emanuela Righi moves to Paris to study Visual Anthropology. Since 2017 she has been a partner at Providences and produces documentaries and XR Experiences
What is your favourite documentary of all time? Comizi d'amore
What film/s are you most looking forward to at this year's Sheffield DocFest? dance films, XR experiences
What do you consider is the best documentary from your nation or region? The trouble we have seen (Veillée d'armes) de Marcel Ophuls
Samuel François-Steininger | Producer
I'me the founder and CEO of Composite films, a production company specialized in high quality, historically accurate archive films colorization. We also produce short fiction films and develop documentaries.
What is your favourite documentary of all time? I am not your negro (Raoul Peck)
What film/s are you most looking forward to at this year's Sheffield DocFest? The first 54 years / The Ants and the Grasshoper / When we were / The annoted field guide of Ulysses S. Grant / Uprising
What do you consider is the best documentary from your nation or region? Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)
Yann Le Prado | Producer
Former CEO of Havas Productions and Studiocanal's EVP Library, president & cofounder of the Union of Heritage Films Catalogs, Yann notably produced CAPITAL IN THE 21st CENTURY, an international copro sold in 50 countries
What is your favourite documentary of all time? Sugar Man
What do you consider is the best documentary from your nation or region? Un pays qui se tient sage
Lorenzo Bianchi | Producer
Graduated in philosophy and cinema, Lorenzo Bianchi created Société Acéphale in 2015. He produces fiction, creative documentaries, experimental and hybrid forms, with a pronounced taste for radical approaches.
What is your favourite documentary of all time? L'ordre (The Order), by Jean Daniel-Pollet
What do you consider is the best documentary from your nation or region? La rabbia (The Anger), by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Marie Balducchi | Producer
Associate Producer for more than 15 years in AGAT Films / EX NIHILO, a collective of nine Associate Producers, Marie Balducchi mainly produces multi award winning documentary films for cinema and television.
What is your favourite documentary of all time? Waltz With Bashir
What film/s are you most looking forward to at this year's Sheffield DocFest? Uprising / The first 54 years / White on white
What do you consider is the best documentary from your nation or region? I Am Not Your Negro
Emma Lepers | Producer
Recently associated to Carole Scotta to create HAUT ET COURT DOC, working with talented writers and directors, producing films in diverse genres and formats and won many awards in different Festivals.
What film/s are you most looking forward to at this year's Sheffield DocFest? Documentaries on racism and identity in a political ambiguous world - I am also particularly interested in pitch sessions such as Chicken & Egg Picture's Lab
What do you consider is the best documentary from your nation or region? M - Thomas Alfandari, Yolande Zauberman
Christophe Audeguis | Producer
Since 2014, Christophe Audeguis has been the founder and producer of the cup of tea. He was a producer at LOVE STREAMS agnès b. PRODUCTIONS and BLISS. He worked also at Ciné b, after La petite Reine and the CNC.
