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About
Laura Baker Ménard is a French American writer-director. She loves New Wave films just as much as Hollywood blockbusters: Full Moon in Paris and Dumb and Dumber feature among her all-time favorite movies. Being quite prone to laughing and crying, she is fond of comedy-dramas. Her scripts and films blend fiction with non-fiction and stage complex characters, who are full of contradictions.
Laura delights in exploring the innovative world of television series, even though she remains strongly attached to the big screen. She is thrilled to witness the growing presence of women in the film industry, both on and off screen, and ever so eager to join this revolution.
WORK
Directing
YES FUTURE 2020
a documentary about career paths and meanderings, directed during a filmmaking workshop, at the French Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers
FAÏZA GUÈNE 2019
a video presentation of the French Algerian writer, commissioned by the European research project 'Memoirs'
OUVRIER.E.S AU MUSÉE 2019
an exhibition teaser commissioned by Musée de l'Histoire Vivante in Montreuil, France
Screenwriting
SOCCER TIME ! 2022
a comedy TV series about a non-professional women's soccer team (10x26min), co-written by Julie Pintos
THE MAN 2019
a medium-length film about a summertime friendship between two boys living in Paris, written in collaboration with Bertrand Duma
THE SUBSTITUTE 2019
a short film in which a French teacher meets a young slam poet, written in collaboration with Sophie Pairault
Podcasts
POSSESSED 2021
a talk on our relationship to objects in our daily lives, created in collaboration with Fernanda Vilar for the Deezer Podcast Contest 2'12 teaser
ALEXANDER THE GREAT 2020
a historical fiction co-created by Jean-Noël Tardy
MEHDI CHAREF 2019
a reflection of the novelist and director on the role of school 3'55 teaser
Photography
BACK TO THE PRESENT 2014
a series of black and white portraits of Paraguayan Mennonites
BLACK LIT 2013
a documentary photo project about the Afro-Caribbean youth in Isla Grande, Panama
EL INFIERNO 2012
a dystopian account of the relationship between man and nature, in Rio Verde, Paraguay
Theater
LE THÉÂTRE DE L'AMANTE ANGLAISE 2010
a play written by Marguerite Duras, staged by Laura Baker Ménard