Marie-Clémence Andriamonta Paes (born 1959), is a
Malagasy French
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filmmaker. She has produced several critically acclaimed feature documentaries including: ''Angano... Angano...'', ''Mahaleo'' and ''L'opéra du bout du monde''. Apart from direction, she is also a producer and writer.
Personal life
She was born in 1959 to a French father and Malagasy mother.
She completed a master's degree in sociology and a Marketing
CELSA-Sorbonne Diploma.
She is married to
César Paes, who is also a Franco-Brazilian director.
Career
In 1988, she launched an independent production company based in Paris called 'Laterit Productions' together with her husband César. The production company is committed in distribution and publishing. With her husband
César Paes, she wrote and produced documentaries such as ''Angano...Angano... Tales from Madagascar'', ''Songs and Tears of Nature'', and ''Awara Soup''. ''Awara Soup'' won several top awards at
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, Festival dei Popoli and
Dok Leipzig
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. Her films such as ''Saudade do Futuro'', ''Mahaleo'', ''An Opera from the Indian Ocean'' and ''Songs for Madagascar'' were theatrically released in France and in the US as well. In her documentaries, music is an important aspect and music is often used as a narrative element. Many of the films directed by Clémence won several prizes at the Cinéma du Réel festival.
Her film ''Angano...Angano... Tales from Madagascar'' won the first prize at the 30th Festival dei Popoli in Florence in 1989.
In 2000, documentary ''Saudade do futuro'' won the Audience award at the Rencontres internationales de Cinéma. In 2004, she co-produced the documentary ''Mahaleo'' along with ARTE Cinema with the participation of Canal +. She also worked as the producer in her husband's films such as ''To the warriors of silence'' (1992), ''Saudade do Futuro'' (2000) and ''Songs for Madagascar '' (2016). In 2007, the documentary ''Mahaleo'' won a SCAM Star.
In 2012, she co-directed the documentary ''L'Opéra du bout du monde'' which is the story of the creation of a contemporary opera from Reunion Island recounting the arrival of Louis XIV's officers in the islands of the Indian Ocean.
In 2019, she directed a feature film, ''Fahavalo'', centers on the remaining memory of the
Madagascan insurrection of 1947.
Filmography
References
External links
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Fahavalo, Madagascar 1947
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Living people
French documentary film directors
Malagasy film directors
French film directors
1959 births