Céline Sciamma
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Céline Sciamma (French: [selin sjama]; born 12 November 1978) is a French screenwriter and film director. She wrote and directed Water Lilies (2007), Tomboy (2011), Girlhood (2014), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), and Petite Maman (2021). Sciamma has received awards and nominations for her films, including two BAFTA nominations for Best Film Not in the English Language. A common theme in Sciamma's films is the fluidity of gender, sexual identity among girls and women, and the female gaze.
Sciamma was born on 12 November 1978 and raised in Cergy-Pontoise, a suburb of Paris. Her father, Dominique Sciamma, a former AI researcher and IT professional, now a figure of design education, and her brother, Laurent Sciamma, is a stand-up performer and graphic designer. Before attending La Fémis, the French film school where she studied from 2001 to 2005, Sciamma earned her master's degree in French literature at Paris Nanterre University.
As a child, she was an avid reader, and she became interested in film as a teenager. Sciamma cites her grandmother as inspiring her love of film, saying that she had a great interest in old Hollywood movies. Sciamma also attended Utopia, an art house cinema theater in Cergy, three times a week as a teenager. She wrote her first original script for Water Lilies as part of her final evaluation at La Fémis.
Born 1978-11-12 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France.
On ThumbScore, Céline Sciamma appears in 3 films with an average audience score of 0%, most frequently in the Drama genre.
