Lionel Retornaz

Born  in Villeurbanne, France. Learned the ropes at TCM film channel in  London. From 2000 to 2007, in charge of channel branding then  director-editor. In 2007-2008, travels extensively throughout South  America / Spanish language and civilisation course at the University of  Buenos Aires. 

In  2010-2011, Master Degree in Creative Documentary – Barcelona Pompeu  Fabra University (Workshops and Master Classes by Leena Pasanen, Sergei  Dvortsevoy, Marcel Lozinski, Luciano Rigolini). 2012, production of a  documentary essay : Chalk and Quill, programmed in a dozen festivals  including FID Marseille.  

Since  2013, teaches, directs and develops various projects: experimental  short films kineticos and Alluuies, documentary La ruche (The Hive).  2015 Training the fundamentals of production in Lussas. Since 2014,  member of the artistic team of the non profit Les Inattendus in Lyon  (festival programming, setting up filming workshops). 2018, saw him  finish the documentary essay Equateur, lointain intérieur (Ecuador, Deep  Inside). 2020, completes a first feature-length documentary film:  Beside Oneself and works on several film projects.

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