Yves De Peretti

Born in 1952, Yves de Peretti studied Modern Literature and Ethnology, before turning to cinema as a self-taught artist (militant and institutional films, video art, etc.). He began making documentaries for television in 1987, directing Tabu, dernier voyage, which won a Critics' Week award at the Locarno Festival in 1996.

In 1992, together with a number of director friends, he founded Addoc, an association of documentary directors, which contributed to giving a strong cultural identity to the documentary genre. Alongside his activity as a director, he began teaching documentary film-making in 2002 in France and abroad, as part of the Ateliers Varan and the Documentary Workshop at the Fémis Film school.

He writes occasional film articles and critics for publications such as La revue Documentaire and Trafic, and collaborates with the ACRIF and the Cinémas Indépendants Parisiens on their program “Lycéens et apprentis au cinema”.