Rebecca Zlotowski, Revelation Jury President at Deauville Festival
Born in 1980 in Paris, Rebecca Zlotowski is a French screenwriter and director. She graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure and French film school La Fémis, and holds a PHD in modern literature. She directed four feature films within the span of ten years: Dear Prudence in 2010 (selected at the Cannes’ Critics’ Week, and recipient of the Louis-Delluc Prize for Best First Film and the FIPRESCI Prize) which gave Léa Seydoux one of her first on-screen performances, Grand Central with Tahar Rahim (selected at the Festival de Cannes in 2013), Planetarium with Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp (selected at the Venice Film Festival in 2016) and An Easy Girl (recipient of the SACD Prize at the Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight in 2019), starring Zahia Dehar and Benoît Magimel. She directed and co-created the same year the mini-series Savages, based on Sabri Louatah’s novel, which premiered in France on Canal Plus, with Roschdy Zem as the first French President with Algerian descent.
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