Éléonore Faucher(1973-2023)

Eleonore Faucher was born in Nantes, France. She studied cinema at Lycée Guist'hau (Ciné sup), and at Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière (image). She began working as camera assistant (La vie de Jésus, Dieu seul me voit, Kennedy et moi), and directed two short features (Les toilettes de Belle-Ville - musical - , and Ne prends pas le large). Her first long feature, Brodeuses (2004), received different prestigious awards (Grand prix de la semaine de la critique et prix SACD for the scenario in Cannes Festival, Prix Michel d'Ornano for the best scenario in Deauville festival, Grand prix in Florence Festival, Tubingen Festival, Worklaw, Saragoza, San Francisco...), and was nominated for three Cesar (best first feature, best young actrice, best second part actress). She went on studying script writing and graduated from La Femis. Then she adapted and directed Gamines (2008) from Sylvie Testud's autobiographic book (award for the best adaptation in festival du Croisic). Pursuing her interest in childhood, as a mother of two, she wrote a book for teenagers : Un petit quelque chose de différent. She went on publishing a second book, collecting the letters written in 1962 by her father during his military service in Algeria : Correspondance d'un appelé d'Algérie (prefaced by Benjamin Stora). In 2013, she adapted Les Déferlantes by Claudie Gallay, and directed it for ArteTV on the beaches of Normandy. In 2019, she directed La Maladroite, a TV movie based on a true story of mistreated childhood (Prix Italia, Prix du Syndicat de la Critique). After having studied writing for series in the Festival des scénaristes de Valence, she created, wrote and directed Et la montagne fleurira, a romantic saga based on the novel Le Mas des Tilleuls, by Françoise Bourdon. The France 2 mini series of six episodes takes place in Provence during the 19th century and shows a young man fighting for his love, his estate, and the Republic.