The Nodey Process
Co-dir. With Francis Cutter, documentary, 2021, 61’
Special Jury mention at the Bordeaux Musical Screen, Marseille Webfest, Viet film fest, Jury prize at the Hamburg Unerhort Festival, Doc’n Roll London Film Festival
Career
French producer and director
After a master's degree in production at INA SUP, Maël Lê-Hurand started working at France 5 in documentary acquisitions, before moving on to working for various documentary and drama production companies.
In 2016, he opened the production company NORMAL, which produces documentaries, short films, music videos and audiovisual content for brands and institutions. Parallelly, he works as an editor and makes documentaries such as Hadès, la mécanique orange (2011) about the consequences of Agent Orange in Vietnam. Rêves de Septembre (2014) looks back at the student movements in Chile 40 years after the Pinochet dictatorship. In 2020, he directed The Nodey Process, about the artistic quest and identity of composer Nodey. In 2024, he produces a documentary web series on portraits of Japanese craftspeople in France, in collaboration with Tempura magazine.
Maël is also a member of the organisation and selection committee for the Ici Vietnam Festival, which highlights Vietnamese cinema and its diaspora. He has also been an instructor at the Ateliers Varan in Corsica and in Paris since 2021 for documentary filmmaking workshops.
Filmography
director
Rêves de septembre
Co-dir. Jean Baptiste Carpentier, documentary, 2014, 50’
Escales documentaires de la Rochelle
Hades, la mécanique orange
Co-dir. Caroline Delerue, 2011, 26’
Festival de films de femmes (Creteil), Nature and environnent festival of Mûrs-Érigné, Traces de vies Clermont Ferrand
editor
L’altra Strada
Dir. Laura Sanguinetti, Documentary, France, 2022, 52’
Documentary prize at the Arte Mare festival (Bastia); young Jury prize at the Rendez vous de l’aventure de Lons-Le-Saunier ; 24th Ciné Montagne de Grenoble
La voix royale
Dir. Alexandre Touzet, France, short film, 2022, 15’
The Nodey Process
Co-dir. With Francis Cutter, documentary, 2021, 61’
OPJ
Dir. Florian Thomas, Fiction series, 2019, 52x12’
France Television release, 2019-2023
Of rage and Remembrance: Anatomy of a Symphony
Dir. Gerald Herman, documentary, France/US, 2019, 38’
producer
The Nodey Process
Co-dir. With Francis Cutter, documentary, 2021, 61’
Soulages, un siècle
Dir. Jean-Noël Cristiani, procused by Yumi productions, France, 2019, 52’
Released on France 3 Occitanie and Soulages de Rodez museum
Tonton H
Dir. Thierno Thioune and humorist Haroun, Short film, 2019, 16’
Released on pasquinade.fr platform
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