Claude Mouriéras

Up to the end of the 1980s, Claude Mouriéras was a photographer and then a director of photography before filming Jean-Claude Gallotta’s ballet “Daphnis et Chloé” in 1983 and producing in 1989 “Montalvo et l’Enfant”, his first full-length film presented that same year in Cannes at the Semaine Internationale de la Critique and awarded the Prix Georges-Sadoul 1989.

His third film, “Dis-moi que je rêve”, was awarded the Prix Jean-Vigo in 1998 and the Golden Precolumbian Circle at the Bogota international film festival. His last film, “Tout va bien, on s’en va”, opened the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Claude Mouriéras is also the author of short films and documentaries, particularly for television. Focused on choreographic creations, he thus produced “Un chant presque éteint”, “Nuit de Chine”. He has also signed portraits of the pianist Hélène Grimaud, the conductor Jeffrey Tate, the painter Jacques Monory and, with “L’Écrivain, le Peintre et le Funambule”, the meetings and dialogues of Jean Genet with Alberto Giacometti. In 2002, he participated in the creation of the filmmakers’ collective Tribudom, which allows the inhabitants of the Eastern districts of Paris to produce short films.

Between 2002 and 2008 he produced three documentaries, each of which stages women. “Le prêt, la poule et l’œuf” (2002) talks about the everyday life of Ethiopian women and of the attempts to introduce micro-credits in their village. In 2005, he produced “Le voyage des femmes de Zartalé”, set in Afghanistan, a film rewarded by a silver FIPA at the Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels de Biarritz. In 2007, he signed a new documentary entitled “Kady, la belle vie”, about the everyday life of a woman from the Ivory Coast in Paris.

In 2009, he carried out the cinematographic adaptation of Paul Claudel’s “Partage de midi” with Marina Hands, Eric Ruf, Hervé Pierre and Christian Gonon, a co-production with the Comédie-Française, Maia Cinéma and France 2.

In 2012, he produced “Meurtres en trois actes”, an original scenario in co-production with Agat Films, the Comédie-Française and France 2, Grand Prix winner at the Festival International du Film de La Rochelle.

In 2013, he staged Harold Pinter’s “The Birthday Party” at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier with the Comédie-Française troupe.

In 2014, he worked on the documentary film project of Omid, shot in the region of Bamyan, Afghanistan.

Since 2011 he has been preparing a project for a national cinema school open to diversity in the Rhône-Alpes region: the CinéFabrique, which opened its doors on September 1st 2015 in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon. It was inaugurated on October 13th 2015 in the presence of Jean-Jack Queyranne, president of the Rhône-Alpes region, Thierry Frémaux, director of the Institut Lumière, and Abderrahmane Sissako, school president. Personalities such as Vincent Lindon, Jacques Audiard, Éric Lartigau, and Gérard Krawczyk were also present.