Alice Winocour (born 13 January 1976) is a French screenwriter and director.[1]

Alice Winocour
Born	(1976-01-13) 13 January 1976 (age 46) Paris, France
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	2003–present

Life and career

Winocour was born in Paris, France, to a Jewish family.[2] After studying screenwriting at La Fémis, Winocour made three short films and wrote the script for Vladimir Perisic's film Ordinary People (released in 2009).[3]

Winocour's first feature film, Augustine, based on the relationship between Professor Charcot and his patient Augustine, was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 as part of the Critics' Week.[4][5][6] Her second directorial film Maryland was selected to be screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[7]

Winocour also co-wrote the film Mustang with Deniz Gamze Ergüven. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[8] The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards.[9]

She was named as a member of the jury of the International Critics' Week section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.[10]

Her 2019 film Proxima premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival,[11] where it received an honourable mention from the Platform Prize jury.[12]

Filmography

References

External links

• Alice Winocour at IMDb
• Rencontre avec Alice Winocour sur Grand-Écart.fr