Crèvecoeur, Dominique

(December 21,

1947, Paris, France - )

   She directed her first short at age sixteen. In 1967, she enrolled in the Nanterre Audiovisual Center and failed the entrance examination for the IDHEC. An editor mostly with Frédéric Rossif until 1978, she founded a production company, Adria Films, which financed shorts. She worked as a unit production manager (1976 Les Derniers beaux Jours, short, also sound engineer, Jean-Yves Rondière) and produced movies (1983 La Guerre des Demoiselles, Jacques Nichet; 2001 Certitude, short, Michka Gorki; Un Monde derrière elle, short, Claude Guyonnet; 2002 Sur la Route d'Aglaé, short, Dominique Guérin-Lods; 2003 Lune, short, Hubert Gillet; Rouge Maman, short, Frédéric Strauss; 2004 Si cinq Rois valaient cette Dame, short, Pierre-Alain Lods; La Ballade du Gaucher, short, Loïc Malo; 2005 Oublier Cheyenne / USA: Looking for Cheyenne, Valérie Minetto; Telma Demain, short, Anna Da Palma; L'Amour est aveugle, short, Alice Mitterrand; Les Ailes coupées, short, Claude Guyonnet; 2006 Qui sommes-nous?, short, Béatrice Pollet; 2008 Au Cœur de l'Acteur, documentary, also producer, Antoine Benoît) and TV documentaries (2002 Tout l'Or de la Montagne noire, Catherine Pozzo di Borgo; ^Attrape-Temps, Céline Thiou; 2003 Moscou entre Ciel et Terre, Valérie Minetto). In 1990, she created the Festival of First Films. Then she was general delegate of Perspectives du Cinéma (Cannes Film Festival, 1991).

 Filmography

1976 ◘ Une Approche (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

1978 ◘ La Dame à la Licorne (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

1980 ◘ Une Voix (short; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

1985 ◘ Contes clandestins (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; shot in 1983)

1989 ◘ Vol nuptial (short; also screenwriter, dialogist, editor)

        ◘ L'Important, c'est la Pomme! (short; also screenwriter)

1995 ◘ Naissances et Morts sous Influence (documentary; originally shot for TV)

        ◘ J e le sais par mes Mots (documentary; short)

        ◘ Les Gammes du Lundi (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

1998 ◘ Ma Sœur, mon Frère, ma Différence . . . (documentary)

2000 ◘ Les Cendres du Paradis (medium-length; also screenwriter, dialogist, editor; shot in 1998)