Coralie H. Gourdon is a documentary director and editor from French Polynesia, currently on a gap year from her studies to direct a short doc project in Egypt with the support of the French National Center for Cinematography. After earning degrees in literature, social anthropology, and filmmaking from the Paris Sorbonne University, she developed her skills by focusing on representation and actors through theater in her short film Towards the Sun in India. Recently, she was selected to participate in the 2021 Werner Herzog Accelerator in Lanzarote, where she directed her short documentary film Animal Planet under Herzog’s guidance. As a filmmaker, she endeavors to allow her subjects to express their own images, fantasies, and mental representations, exploring subjective approaches to reality and the grey areas between genres.

FILMOGRAPHY:

• A magnès / short fiction / 2023 – in postproduction / as a writer and director  

• Autofocus / short documentary / 2023 – in postproduction / as a writer, director, and editor
• Mother River / short documentary / 2022 / as a co-writer, co-director, and editor
• Up the River / short fiction-documentary /2022/ as a writer and director
• Freedom is / short documentary / 2022 /as a writer and director
• Archili’s dream / short fiction / 2022/ as a writer and director
• The collective archive / short film – performance / 2021 / as a co-writer, co-performer, and co-director
• Animal Planet / short documentary / 2021/ as a writer, director, and editor 
• Layla / short documentary / 2021 / as a writer, director, and editor
• Towards the Sun / short documentary / 2021 / as a writer, director, and editor
• The Most Intimate Music / short documentary / 2020/ as a co-writer, director, and editor
  
  AWARDS: 
• Layla / Cairo Indie Short Festival / Short doc competition / Egypt / 2021 / Best short documentary
• Layla / Sacramento World Film Festival / Short doc competition / USA / 2021 / Best short documentary
• Towards the Sun / 5th Indian World Film Festival / India / Short doc competition / 2021 / Best student short film
• Towards the sun / 9th Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival / India / Short doc competition / 2020 / Special mention of the jury for student short doc