Julie Mathilde Charlotte Claire Bertuccelli is a French director born February 12, 1968, in Boulogne-Billancourt. She is particularly known for her documentary La Cour de Babel released in 2014 and the feature filmL'Arbre released in 2010.
Biography
After studies in hypokhâgne, then khâgne, and a master of philosophy, Julie Bertuccelli became, for ten years, assistant director on many feature films, TV movies and short films with Otar Iosseliani, Rithy Panh, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Emmanuel Finkiel, Bertrand Tavernier, Jean-Louis Bertuccelli, Christian de Chalonge, René Féret, Pierre Etaix... Following an introduction to documentary filmmaking in 1993 at Ateliers Varan where she signed her first film A job like any other, she directed fifteen documentaries for Arte, France 3 and France 5, including Une liberté !, La Fabrique des Judges, Welcome to the department store, A world in fusion, Otar Iosseliani, the whistling blackbird, The Glasberg Mystery, Antoinette Fouque, what is a woman?... His first feature film Since Otar left... has been crowned by twenty awards in France and abroad, including the Grand Prize of the Critics' Week at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, the César de la meilleur first work in 2004, the Marguerite Duras Prize 2003 and the Michel d'Ornano Award 2003 in Deauville. L'Arbre is his second feature film shot in Australia with Charlotte Gainsbourg, in official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, released in 2010 in France and three times nominated for the Césars. His documentary The Court of Babel, released in theaters in March 2014, has been selected in several festivals, including those of New York, Rome, Abu Dhabi, Sheffield, Rio, Montreal, Tokyo, Cairo, San Francisco... Named to Caesar and sacred Best documentary of the French Film Awards. She then broadcasts her documentary Latest News from the Cosmos, which received the Audience Award from the Rencontres du Cinéma Documentaire in Montreuil and the FIFA Grand Prix in Montreal, and was named to the Enlightenment of the International Press and the César 2017. Her next feature film, Claire Darling's Last Madness with Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni, will be released in theaters in February 2019. Julie Bertuccelli has been chairing the Scam since June 2017, having been the first woman elected to this position in 2013, as well as the brand new Cinematheque of the documentary she created with Scam. She was co-chair with Michel Hazanavicius of the Civil Society of Producers' Authors Producers in 2016. She is the daughter of the director Jean-Louis Bertuccelli and the widow of cinematographer Christophe Pollock.
