Birot, Anne-Sophie

(January 5, 1968, Versailles, Yvelines, France - )

   After completing her studies at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble (1985-1988), she went to Avignon, where she frequented the French-American Workshop, a French-American film festi­val, in 1991. The same year, she began writing theat­rical reviews for L'Express Paris (1991), the Avignon festival (1991-1993), and the Radio France Vaucluse program La Festivalière. She enrolled in the Fémis in 1993. Having graduated in 1997 (screenplay depart­ment), she directed the making of Claude Chabrol's Au Coeur du Mensonge / UK: At the Heart of the Lie / USA: The Color of Lies (Moteur, Action, Indiscrétion). Other credit (as co-screenwriter): 1995 La Lettre de Nabil (short, Sheila Barakat).

 Filmography

1996 ◘ Une Vague Idée de la Mer (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

2000 ◘ Les Filles ne savent pas nager (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

 Television Filmography

2005 ◘ Les Violeurs d'Aurore (documentary; shot in 2003)