Marie-Clémence Paes

Marie-Clémence Andriamonta Paes (born 1959), is a Malagasy French filmmaker.[1] She has produced several critically acclaimed feature documentaries including: Angano... Angano..., Mahaleo and L'opéra du bout du monde. Apart from direction, she is also a producer and writer.[2]

Marie-Clémence Paes
Born
Marie-Clémence Andriamonta

1959 (age 61–62)
Madagascar
Nationality
OccupationDirector, producer, writer
Years active1988–present
Spouse(s)César Paes

Personal life

She was born in 1959 to a French father and Malagasy mother.[3] She completed a master degree in Sociology and a Marketing CELSA-Sorbonne Diploma.[4]

She is married to César Paes, who is also a Franco-Brazilian director.[3]

Career

In 1988, she launched an independent production company based in Paris called 'Laterit Productions' together with her husband César.[5] The production company is committed in distribution and publishing. With her husband César Paes, she wrote and produced documentaries such as Angano...Angano... Tales from Madagascar, Songs and Tears of Nature, and Awara Soup. Awara Soup won several top awards at Cinéma du Réel, Festival dei Popoli and Dok Leipzig. Her films such as Saudade do Futuro, Mahaleo, An Opera from the Indian Ocean and Songs for Madagascar were theatrically released in France and in the USA as well. In her documentaries, music is an important aspect and music is often used as a narrative element. Many of the films directed by Clémence won several prizes at the Cinéma du Réel festival.[4]

Her film Angano...Angano... Tales from Madagascar won the first prize at the 30th Festival dei Popoli in Florence in 1989.[4] In 2000, documentary Saudade do futuro won the Audience award at the Rencontres internationales de Cinéma. In 2004, she co-produced the documentary Mahaleo along with ARTE Cinema with the participation of Canal +. She also worked as the producer in her husband's films such as To the warriors of silence (1992), Saudade do Futuro (2000) and Songs for Madagascar (2016). In 2007, the documentary Mahaleo won a SCAM Star.[3]

In 2012, she co-directed the documentary L'Opéra du bout du monde which is the story of the creation of a contemporary opera from Reunion Island recounting the arrival of Louis XIV's officers in the islands of the Indian Ocean.[6] In 2019, she directed a feature film, Fahavalo, centers on the remaining memory of the Madagascan insurrection of 1947.

Filmography
YearFilmRoleGenreRef.
1989Angano... Angano... nouvelles de Madagascardirector, producer, writerDocumentary[7]
1992To the warriors of silenceproducerDocumentary
1992Songs and Tears of Natureproducer, writerDocumentary
2000Saudade Do Futuroproducer, writerDocumentary[8]
2005MahaleoproducerDocumentary[9]
2005Le siffletproducerShort film[10]
2006Batuque, l'âme d'un peupledirector, producer, production managerDocumentary
2012L'opéra du bout du mondedirector, executive producer, writerDocumentary[11]
2014The Malagasy Wayco-producerDocumentary
2016Songs for MadagascarproducerDocumentary[12]
2016De la Sakay à la CarapaproducerDocumentary
2018Fahavalo, Madagascar 1947director, producer, writerDocumentary[13]

References
  1. "Marie-Clémence Paes: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter, Editor, Producer". unifrance. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  2. "Marie-Clémence Paes career". bretagne-et-diversite. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  3. "Laterit Productions". Laterit productions official website. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  4. "Marie-Clémence Paes: Director". African Filmny. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  5. "Biography Marie-Clémence Paes". filme-aus-afrika. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  6. "Marie-Clémence Paes latest film". dafilms. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  7. "Angano…Angano, Tales from Madagascar". africanfilmny. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  8. "Saudade do futuro: A Feature film by César Paes, Marie-Clémence Paes". unifrance. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  9. "Mahaleo: A Feature film by Raymond Rajaonarivelo, César Paes". unifrance. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  10. "Le Sifflet: A Short film by As Thiam". unifrance. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  11. "An Opera from the Indian Ocean (L'Opera du Bout du Monde)". TIEFF. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  12. "Songs For Madagascar". unifrance. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  13. "Screening of Fahavalo with Filmmaker Marie-Clémence Andriamonta". nyu.edu. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
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