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Sylvaine Dampierre

Sylvaine Dampierre

Director

Career

French director

After studying arts and literature at the Sorbonne university and studying at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Sylvaine Dampierre first worked as an editor until 1998. She then movied into documentary filmmaking. She has written 3 fiction screenplays. With Alain Moreau, she created Télé-Rencontres, an in-house television channel at the Paris la Santé prison. She has taught at the Ateliers Varan since 1993, first as an editor and then as a trainer in documentary filmmaking in the Parisian workshops, but also at the ESSAV film school in Marrakech and in Guadeloupe. As head of education and founder of Varan Caraïbe, she has been running training workshops in Guadeloupe in filmmaking, editing, web documentary and sound narration since 2010.

She was a member of the CNC's Audiovisual Innovation Fund - Enhanced Development Committee.

Filmography

director

Piazza Mora

Documentary, France, 2013, 53’

Festival international du Film Insulaire de Groix

Le Pays à l’envers

Documentary, France 2005/2008, 90’

National release on the 29th of April 2009; Heritage Price at the cinema du Reel 2008; Meilleur documentaire, Trophées des Arts Afro Caribéens, 2009 ; Vues d'Afrique, Montréal ; FIFAI, Île de la Réunion ; Fidocs, Santiago du Chili ; Festival du film insulaire, Groix ; États généraux du film documentaire, Lussas

Green Guerilla

Documentary, France, 2003, 63’

Cinema du Reel, Paris ; International environnemental Film Festival, Paris 2003

Pouvons-nous vivre ici ?

Documentary, France, 2002, 58’

Cinéma du Réel, Paris ; FID, Marseille, 2002 ; Festival international du film d'environnement, Paris ; Grand Prix, Festival de Gaillac ; Planet in Focus, Toronto, 2003

La rivière des galets

Documentary, France, 2000, 63’

Un enclos

Documentary, France, 1999 63’

Heritage Price at the cinema du Reel, Paris; FID, Marseille, 2000 ; Prix du jury au festival Écofilm, 2001 ; Grand prix, Festival de Gaillac, 2005

L’île

Documentary, France, 1998, 57’

Etats généraux du documentaire, Lussas, 1999

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