Laura Laperrousaz was born in Paris in 1983. She graduated from the National Fine Arts Academy of Paris in 2009 (ENSBA). She started to direct with her sister Clara video-art films, then short feature films. She wrote a play for theatre. She co-directed with Clara an experimental feature film named Rodeo (2011) while doing an art residency at the CentQuatre-Paris. Her second middle-length feature co-written and co-directed was Embracing the Skies (Retenir les Ciels, 2013), starring Lolita Chammah. Soleil Battant, co-written and co-directed with Clara, is her first feature film.


AT THE FESTIVAL


SUNBEAT
November 19th, 7PM
Cinema Medeia Monumental