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      Céline Sciamma

      Céline Sciamma

      Highest Rated: 99% My Life as a Zucchini (2016)

      Lowest Rated: 62% The Balconettes (2024)

      Birthday: Nov 12, 1980

      Birthplace: Pontoise, France

      French director Céline Sciamma first impressed audiences with her directorial debut, "Water Lilies" (2007). The independent drama dealt with a team of teenage girls on a synchronized swimming team whose developing sexualy creates confusion, elation, and fear. Sciamma, a graduate of Paris' prestigious Le Femis screenwriting program, was intensely interested in the fluidity of sexuality, as well as the unique perspective of youth, infusing these ideas into "Water Lilies," which was chosen for screening in the Un certain regard section at the Cannes Film Festival, and went on to be nominated for three Cesar Awards. The filmmaker's next move was directing a short film for the French government's anti-homophobia campaign called "Pauline" (2009). Soon, Sciamma was moving on to further explore similar themes in her next feature film "Tomboy" (2011), following the story of a nine-year-old girl who chooses to begin living her life as a boy. The film's uniquely sparse directorial style, insight into gender identity, and incisive depiction of childhood earned Sciamma comparisons to greats like Francois Truffaut. Sciamma wasted no time developing her next feature, "Girlhood" (2014), a film inspired by the groups of teenage girls she would often see loitering in public places around Paris like the Metro station or the the Les Halles shopping centre, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015.

      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      62% No Score Yet The Balconettes Screenwriter - 2024
      75% 29% Playlist Screenwriter - 2021
      97% 80% Petite maman Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Costume Designer
      $819.8K 2021
      83% 76% Paris, 13th District Screenwriter $72.4K 2021
      97% 92% Portrait of a Lady on Fire Director,
      Screenwriter
      $3.8M 2019
      No Score Yet No Score Yet French waves Self - 2017
      99% 89% My Life as a Zucchini Screenwriter $292.3K 2016
      No Score Yet 95% My Life as a Courgette Screenwriter - 2016
      95% 76% Being 17 Screenwriter $52.7K 2016
      96% 73% Girlhood Director,
      Screenwriter
      $60.0K 2014
      96% 83% Tomboy Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Writer
      $113.8K 2011
      No Score Yet 62% Ivory Tower Screenwriter - 2010
      82% 68% Water Lilies Director,
      Writer
      $77.3K 2007