Born in 1975 in Rennes, Marie Dault pursued a preparatory course in Khâgne at Lycée Clémenceau in Nantes before obtaining a Master’s degree in Anglo-Saxon Literature from Charles V-Paris 7. She completed a Master 2 in Film Theory at Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 at the end of the 1990s.
After several collaborations with theater in the 2000s, where she created videos integrated into stage design, she undertook documentary filmmaking training at Ateliers Varan in 2005. In this context, she made the short documentary Voilà, an immersive look at the lost and found department.
In 2011, she directed a documentary on the streets of Caracas, focusing on street vendors specializing in the trade of laws and the Constitution. Her 2020 feature documentary Chronique de la terre volée, also filmed in Venezuela, was selected for numerous festivals in France and abroad before being broadcast on France 2.
Additionally, Marie Dault works as a script consultant for documentary projects.