Sandrine Veysset (born 29 March 1967) is a French

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and screenwriter.

Life and career

Veysset was born in

Avignon Avignon (, ; ; oc, Avinhon, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal or , ; la, Avenio) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Vaucluse Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region of So ...

. She studied

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until she dropped out of school to pursue filmmaking. A friend introduced her to Léos Carax and she was hired as his driver while he was shooting ''

Les Amants du Pont-Neuf ''Les Amants du Pont-Neuf'' () is a 1991 French film directed by Leos Carax, starring Juliette Binoche and Denis Lavant. The film follows a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives ...

'' (''The Lovers on the Bridge'') (1991) in 1989. Her first real contact with cinema happened when she became an assistant to the art director of that film. The experience encouraged her to begin writing her first screenplay in 1991. She directed from her first script in 1995 and the resulting film, ''

Will It Snow for Christmas? ''Will It Snow for Christmas?'' () is a South Korean television melodrama series starring Go Soo, Han Ye-seul, Song Jong-ho, Sunwoo Sun, and Jo Min-su. It aired on SBS from December 2, 2009 to January 28, 2010 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21: ...

'' (''Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noël?'') (1996), won her a César Award in 1997 for Best First Film. Her third film, ''Martha...Martha'' (2001) opened the

Directors' Fortnight The Directors' Fortnight (french: Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) is an independent selection of the Cannes Film Festival. It was started in 1969 by the French Directors Guild after the events of May 1968 resulted in cancellation of the Cannes festiv ...

at the 2001

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Collaborators

Veysset worked with Ognon Pictures producer

Humbert Balsan Humbert Jean René Balsan (21 August 1954 – 10 February 2005) was a French film producer and chairman of the European Film Academy. He was known for securing financing and distribution for diverse and often challenging films. In February 2005 ...

and camerawoman Hélène Louvanton on all her films.

Filmography

*''

'' (1996) *''Victor... Pendant qui'il est trop tard'' (1998) *''Martha...Martha'' (2001) *''Il sera une fois...'' (2006) *''L'Histoire d'une mère'' (2016)

References

''Will it Snow for Christmas?'' presskit
Zeitgeist Films, retrieved April 15, 2006

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Veysset, Sandrine French film directors Writers from Avignon 1967 births Living people French women film directors French women screenwriters French screenwriters