Marie Paccou

Born in 1974 in Dakar, Marie Paccou was 15 when she discovered animation in a small festival near Montpellier. As student in ENSAD (Paris), she directed her first short film, "Un Jour", which won many awards around the world, including the European Academy Award for Short Film in 1998.She graduated from the RCA in London in 2000, where she directed "When you're asleep" and "Me, the other". Since, she's established in Auvergne, close to Clermont-Ferrand, where she directed two short films ("Le jardin" and "Hubert, the candy man"), worked on the opening of an animation school in Cournon and started a small film festival in her village through the Maison aux Mille Images.In October 2020, she patented the umbrellotrope, an object which allows street-cinema, thanks to sun, smartphone, and revolution.