Florence Jaugey (born 22 June 1959) is a French movie director, actress, producer, and screenwriter who lives in Nicaragua. In 1989 Jaugey co-founded with her partner and Nicaraguan filmmaker

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, Camila Films (Nicaragua), an independent film production company based in

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. In 1998, her film ''Cinema Alcázar'', won the

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award at the Berlin International Film Festival

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Biography

Florence Jaugey was born in

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, France in 1959 and studied drama in

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at the ENSATT ''(École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre)''. She worked as an actress during the 1980s. In 1984 she traveled to Nicaragua to be the lead actress in the movie ''El Señor Presidente'' directed by the Cuban director

Manuel Octavio Gómez Manuel Octavio Gómez (November 14, 1934 – January 2, 1988) was a prolific Cuban film director and writer. His 1971 film '' The Days of Water'' was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Prix FIPRESCI Th ...

Camila Films

In 1989, together with

a Nicaraguan filmmaker and her partner, they set up in

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, Camila Films Production Company, an independent film company, directing and producing several short and documentary films, and one feature film ''

La Yuma ''La Yuma'' is a 2009 Nicaraguan drama film directed by Florence Jaugey. The film was selected as the Nicaraguan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but did not make the final shortlist. Plot La Yuma is a girl wh ...

'' (2010). A second feature film titled ''Naked Screen'' (2014), original title in Spanish ''La Pantalla Desnuda''. Jaugey's filmmaking has focused on the poverty-stricken people of Nicaragua, such as her short film ''Cinema Alcázar'', winner of the

(1998) the first one for Nicaragua. This documentary is about the people that live in the ruins of an earthquake destroyed movie house from the 1950s located in the center of Managua. The documentary ''The Island of the Lost Children'' (2001), original title in Spanish ''La Isla de los Niños Perdidos'', filmed in jail and winner of the ''Society of Authors Award'' at the International Documentary Festival ''

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'' in

in 2002. One of her last works, a documentary titled ''Deceit'' (2012), original title in Spanish ''El engaño'', portrays the lives of seven women who survived human trafficking and how they struggle to cope with their experiences leading some of them to work for at-risk centers for girls. In the documentary Jaugey travels through Central America exposing the conditions of violence against women. In 2009 Jaugey directed a drama, her first feature film, titled ''

''. The film was selected as the Nicaraguan entry for the

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at the

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but the film didn't make it to the final list. This movie was the first full-length feature film in 20 years from

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as reported by the

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in a paper titled ''The Projection of Development'' by Lewis, Rodgers, and Woolcock. Her second feature film, ''La Pantalla Desnuda'' (The Naked Screen) is expected to be released in 2014.

Recognition

In 2010 Florence Jaugey received the Order Rubén Darío for Cultural Independence.

Filmography

References

External links

TEDx Managua video - speaker Florence Jaugey talks about the reality of making movies
(Spanish).
Film Annex - video interview with Florence Jaugey
(English) 2010.
Florence Jaugey YouTube Channel

Univision - video interview with Florence Jaugey in 2010 - "Florence Jaugey y la Yuma"
(Spanish).
VIMEO - video interview with Florence Jaugey
(French).
La Prensa, Revista (Nicaragua) 2010-10-05. "La Yuma se postula a Oscar"
(Spanish).

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