Biographie
Eleonore Faucher was born in Nantes, France. She studied cinema at Lycée Guist'hau (Ciné sup) and Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière (image). She started her career as a camera assistant on films such as La vie de Jésus, Dieu seul me voit, and Kennedy et moi, and directed two short films: Les toilettes de Belle-Ville (a musical) and Ne prends pas le large. Her first feature film, Brodeuses (2004), won several prestigious awards including the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique and the SACD Prize for screenplay at the Cannes Festival, the Michel d'Ornano Prize for best screenplay at the Deauville Festival, as well as Grand Prix awards at festivals in Florence, Tubingen, Worklaw, Zaragoza, and San Francisco. It was also nominated for three César Awards (Best First Feature, Best Young Actress, Best Supporting Actress). She continued her studies in screenwriting and graduated from La Femis. Faucher then adapted and directed Gamines (2008), based on Sylvie Testud's autobiographical book, which won the Best Adaptation award at the Festival du Croisic. Drawing from her interest in childhood and her experience as a mother of two, she authored a young adult novel, Un petit quelque chose de différent. She also published a second book, Correspondance d'un appelé d'Algérie, a collection of letters written by her father during his military service in Algeria in 1962, with a foreword by Benjamin Stora. In 2013, she adapted and directed Les Déferlantes by Claudie Gallay for ArteTV, filmed on the beaches of Normandy. In 2019, she directed La Maladroite, a TV movie based on a true story of child abuse, which won the Prix Italia and the Prix du Syndicat de la Critique. After studying series writing at the Festival des scénaristes de Valence, she created, wrote, and directed Et la montagne fleurira, a romantic saga based on Françoise Bourdon's novel Le Mas des Tilleuls. This six-episode mini-series aired on France 2 and is set in 19th-century Provence, depicting a young man’s fight for his love, estate, and the Republic.
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