- Julie Gavras
Julie Gavras is a French film director and writer. She is daughter of director
Costa-Gavras . Her first feature-length fiction film "Blame it on Fidel " ("La Faute à Fidel") was released in France in November 2006.After graduate studies in literature and law, Julie Gavras turned to cinema. Gavras started as an assistant director in Italy and France on commercials, television movies and featurefilms. She worked with directors as diverse as
Robert Enrico ,Claire Devers ,Jacques Nolot ,Alexandre Jardin ,Camille de Casabianca ,Roberto Faenza andMichele Soavi . She also worked with her father on his 2002 World War II drama "Amen ", on which she served as an assistant director.In 1998, she directed a short film called "Oh les beaux dimanches!" produced in
Marseilles by Comic Strip. Two years later, she directed her first documentary, "From Dawn to Night: Songs by Moroccan Women". It was based on a play byAlain Weber mounted at the Bouffes du Nord theater inParis during the Festival d’Automne. It was broadcast onArte . In January 2002, her second documentary was released theatrically in France: "The Pirate, the Wizard, the Thief and the Children" ("Le Corsaire, le magicien, le voleur et les enfants"). The film looks at a class of nine-year-olds who make a film at school.She has directed other documentaries for Arte and
France 5 .External links
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