Blondy, Sophie

(1969, France - )

   Trained as a dancer at the Brussels-based Mudra School of Maurice Béjart and a former model for photographers Pierre and Gilles, she entered films as an actress (1982 Toute une Nuit / USA: A Whole Night / All Night Long, Chantal Akerman, Belgium / France; 1985 L'Amour braque, Andrzej Zulawski; 1986 Paulette, la pauvre petite Milliardaire, Claude Confortès; 1989 Camille Claudel, Bruno Nuytten; 1995 Le Garçon sur la Colline, short, Dominique Baron; 2002 Mes Parents, Rémi Lange). After briefly working as a trainee assis­tant director (1993 Mui du xahn / L'Odeur de la Papaye verte / USA: The Scent of Green Papaya, Ahn Hung Tran, Vietnam / France), she made her directing debut film­ing a documentary on an accordionist.

 Filmography

        ◘ L'Accordéoniste (documentary; short)

        ◘ Les Enfants Acteurs (documentary; short)

        ◘ Les Enfants de Paris (documentary; short)

        ◘ Vivre et travailler (documentary; short)

        ◘ La Cité des Eboueurs (documentary, short)

        ◘ Elle et lui au 14ème Etage (also screenwriter, actor)

        ◘ L'Homme que j'attends (also screenwriter, actor)

        ◘ Making of Emergence 2001 (documentary; short)

        ◘ Love et Transmission (documentary)

        ◘ La nuova vita (documentary)

2008 ◘ Le Conte d'Isis (shot in 2004)