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Stephanie Saxemard
- Location:
- France
- Languages:
- English, French
- Issues:
- Climate Change, LGBTQIA+, Refugee Crisis and Immigration, Women and Girls, Human Rights
- Expertise:
- Impact Producing
- Cultural/racial identity:
- Black Caribbean
- Self identification:
- Woman
Bio
Stephanie Saxemard is a director, cinematographer, editor, and documentary film producer from Martinique. She is founder of Creativ Sün Films, an impact film production company based in Martinique.
Stephanie’s passion for nonfictional storytelling has led her to direct and produce several independent short documentaries. She focuses on issues of identity, uprootedness, social and climate justice.
Stephanie is a 2022 BGDM Black Director fellow, a 2022 Hot Docs Fellow, a 2022 & 2021 Caribbean Film Academy Fellow, a 2021 IDFAcademy alumni and a 2019 If/Then alumni.
After a Ma in Political Science and International Cooperation from the University of the Antilles and French Guyana and a MA in Human Rights from the London School of Advanced Studies, she worked as a researcher, analyst and project coordinator in non-profit organisations.
She is currently working on documentary and animadocs projects.
