My creative process typically goes as follows: - I find an issue that frustrates me - I turn it into an art project, with a positive twist Last week I started a new initiative that addresses head-on one of my biggest frustrations: my discomfort with celebrity culture and the superficial…

I often think about what it must have been like to be Greg Grant. At 5'7", the former professional basketball player was one of the shortest men playing in the NBA. There’s a famous photo of Grant in front of Manute Bol, towering over him at 7'7". I wonder if…

A Blast from the Past, As a Powerful Reminder of What Happens When You Persist Against All Odds — A few days ago I was doing a digital version of the Marie Kondo method, re-organizing and tidying up hundreds of notes I had saved to Evernote. That’s when I stumbled upon an entry titled: “5 year anniversary THE ILLUSIONISTS.” It referred to my feature-length documentary The Illusionists, but I…

My goal: to start a #bodyimagerevolution. My instrument: a provocative documentary — The late film producer Laura Ziskin once said: Men have built the cities, made and defined the culture, interpreted the world. At no time in recorded history have women been culture-makers. Movies are arguably the most influential, important medium in the world. Because women are now making movies, then women’s…

The invisibility of female film directors in Google search results around the world… — Part I Last week I made a startling discovery: when I Googled “film director” (using the French version of the search engine), the first photo of a “female” director that came up was “Barbie Film Director”… and it was buried a bit in the results, after many, many rows of…

Let’s Make Female Film Directors More Visible — There’s this game that I play when I have trouble falling asleep: I start listing female film directors. I usually doze off when reaching number 20–25; if my insomnia is particularly bad, I can go up to 60. Month after month, I am reminded of the importance of this seemingly…

Paris, France — December 15, 2015 I’m in my film editing suite, with my two laptops sitting side-by-side. As it has been the case over the past two weeks, one screen is permanently set on NASA TV. In less than an hour, British astronaut Tim Peake will start his journey…

I have a confession to make: 6 years into the making of my documentary feature The Illusionists — and about 3 months into the editing of it — I had a startling epiphany, which profoundly changed the way I approach filmmaking. I call it a confession, because it’s an obvious…