Moïra Chappedelaine-Vautier
Production
Biography
Moïra Chappedelaine-Vautier was born in 1978 and grew up between Brittany and Montreuil. She began her career in film production, first producing short films and then documentaries for several production companies. She then directed her first documentary in 2006 in Colombia, Bogotrax, Red Sonante. She continued her career as a producer and joined Ciaofilm in 2011, with which she produced documentaries for theaters and developed fiction projects. At the same time, she worked on the preservation and restoration of her father's film collection, filmmaker René Vautier, with a genuine desire to revive and share his politically engaged cinema. In 2014, she co-directed her third documentary, Histoire d'Images, Images d'Histoire, with him. Following this restoration work, she began directing the post-production of feature-length fiction films. She worked for four years with the Rouge International team, then for various French and international productions. Recently moving to Nantes, she continues her diverse professional activities, dividing her time between production, heritage film restoration, writing, and directing.
Known For
French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegui, who has been charged by the king with ridding the country of the devil's wiles, arrests Ana and her friends and accuses them of witchcraft.
Coven
South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country house near Johannesburg. The detainees, along with Nelson Mandela, imprisoned since 1962, are charged with serious crimes for their radical activism against the apartheid regime.
The State Against Mandela and the Others
A rural police officer investigates the bizarre case of a headless woman's body. The prime suspect blames the crime on the appearance of a legendary monster.
Murder Me, Monster
Documentary on Antoine de Caunes, a French television presenter, comedian, actor, journalist, writer and film director.
Antoine de Caunes : La vie rêvée d'un enfant du rock
The Law of Silence, a final-year documentary by Moïra Chappedelaine-Vautier at Femis, examines the 1963 Amnesty Law and the consequences it had on studies of the Algerian War. It brings together interviews conducted in 2002 with Henri Alleg, editor of the daily newspaper Alger Républicain from 1951 to 1955, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian and essayist. It also features incredible statements from General Massu and lawyers unraveling the various legal defenses of people like Jean-Marie Le Pen. Not only does Moïra have her father, René Vautier, speak, but she also includes footage he himself filmed forty years earlier. A very interesting report, which notably reminds us that the Amnesty is not a pardon but the erasure of the sentence and also of the crime itself.
The Law of Silence
In 1950, in full reconstruction, the workers of Brest went on strike. It will last more than a month and will be bloody. Edouard Mazé, a 26-year-old worker from Brest, will die during the demonstration on April 17, dozens of his comrades will be injured and one of them, Pierre Cauzien, will be amputated five days later. The city is under siege. René Vautier, a 20-year-old filmmaker, goes clandestinely to Brest, at the call of the CGT, to shoot a film on the reasons for anger. The trace of these events is now tenuous and carried by witnesses whose words are gradually dying out. This film proposes to find the traces of these events, to collect the words of the witnesses, to search their personal archives, to exhume the forgotten photograms, to open the official files hitherto protected, to delve into the depths of individual memories to understand. In 1950, a man died... But who still remembers?
Histoires d’images, images d’Histoire
From the deep south to the extreme north, a trip through Iraq where the amazing diversity of Iraqi society is unveiled. Haunting chants are interwoven with the voices of the people, lending a poetic resonance to the issue.