Léonor Serraille (born 1986) is a French screenwriter and director.

Biography

Serraille was born in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...

and was a student at

La Fémis La Fémis (French: ''École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l'Image et du Son''; "National Superior School for the Professions of Image and Sound", formerly known as the '' Institut des hautes études cinématographiques'', IDHEC) is a Fre ...

. In 2013 Serraille completed her master's degree in general and comparative literature at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University. Her first feature film '' Montparnasse Bienvenue'' was a critical success at the

Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films o ...

in 2017 and Serraille won the

Caméra d'Or The Caméra d'Or ("''Golden Camera''") is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections (Official Selection, Directors' Fortnight The Directors' Fortnight (french: Quinzaine des ...

for the best debut film. The film also won the prize for best French feature film at the 6th Champs-Élysées Film Festival in Paris.

Sources

1986 births Living people Mass media people from Lyon French screenwriters Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3 alumni Directors of Caméra d'Or winners {{France-screen-writer-stub