Françoise Prenant

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Françoise Prenant (born November 8, 1952 in Paris ) is a French film editor , film director , screenwriter and film actress who also works under the name Franssou Prenant.

Life

Françoise Prenant, who grew up partly in Algeria , graduated from the IDHEC film school in Paris . In 1975 her first short film was published under the title Le Paradis perdu . Her short film Habibi received a special mention from the jury at the Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand in 1984 . From 1982 she worked several times as an editor. For Faits Divers , a documentary about a Paris police station, which was also shown in Germany under the titles Various Incidents and Various Events , she received a 1984 nomination for the César in the category Best Editing ; however, it was defeated by Jacques Witta .

She also worked with Raymond Depardon , the director of Faits Divers , on the semi-documentary drama Empty Quarter (1985). She was also used as an actress and played the role of a vital woman who travels through Africa with a reporter who can only be heard off- screen , the only character shown in the film. Since then she has appeared sporadically as a filmmaker. As such, she prefers to shoot in Super 8 format. Her melancholy documentary Bienvenue à Madagascar , published in 2015, about her return to Algiers , where she had lived in the 2000s as the wife of the Ambassador of Madagascar , was shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Viennale .

Filmography (selection)

Direction and script
  • 1975: Le Paradis perdu (short film)
  • 1983: Habibi (short film) - director only
  • 1987: L'Escale de Guinée (short film)
  • 2000: Paris, mon petit corps est bien las de ce grand monde
  • 2001: Sous le ciel lumineux de son pays natal (documentary)
  • 2005: Reviens et prends-moi (short film)
  • 2015: Bienvenue à Madagascar (documentary)
cut
  • 1982: Dying at 30 ( Mourir à 30 ans ) (documentary)
  • 1983: Faits Divers (documentary)
  • 1985: Empty Quarter - A Woman in Africa ( Une femme en Afrique )
  • 1987: Blanche et Claire (short film)
  • 1998: D'une brousse à l'autre (documentary)
  • 2010: Garagouz (short film)
  • 2013: El oued, el oued (documentary)
  • 2015: Bienvenue à Madagascar (documentary)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. bfi.org.uk ( British Film Institute )
  2. ↑ Faits Divers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 19, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ cf. viennale.at
  4. ↑ Olivier Barlet: Bienvenue à Madagascar, de Franssou Prenant on africultures.com, March 15, 2017.
  5. ↑ cf. survivance.net
personal data
SURNAME Prenant, Françoise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prenant, Franssou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film editor, film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris