Claire Doyon
Claire Doyon is a French director born in 1971. After studying directing at the Fémis and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, she made her first feature film, Les Lionceaux, in 2002, which was selected for the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. She went on to direct several films: Kataï (2010), Pénélope (2012), Les allées sombres (2015), and Arsenic (2017), which were selected for several international festivals. In 2013, she founded the production company Cofilms with Coco Tassel. In 2007, Claire Doyon founded Maia, an institute located in Paris that now takes in 24 children and teenagers with autism. The school promotes an experimental pedagogy inspired by a variety of sources and tools. Claire Doyon also teaches cinema at the HEAD Geneva, La Fémis, and Paris 8. She supervises shoots on the issue of portraiture and self-portraiture in documentary films.
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Pénélope My Love
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_Pénélope My Love_ traces the journey of a mother and her autistic daughter through the years. It tells the story of different stages: the shock of the diagnosis, the declaration of war, the abdication of weapons, to finally accepting and discovering another way of existence.
Pénélope My Love
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_Pénélope My Love_ traces the journey of a mother and her autistic daughter through the years. It tells the story of different stages: the shock of the diagnosis, the declaration of war, the abdication of weapons, to finally accepting and discovering another way of existence.
