Marie-Clémence Paes

Marie-Clémence Paes

Biography

Marie-Clémence & Cesar Paes . She is both French and Malagasy, he is Brazilian and French. They make feature length documentaries where music is a way to explore serious topics and fight against clichés. Their previous films such as "Angano...angano...tales from Madagascar" or "Songs and Tears of Nature", “Awara soup” have won top awards at Cinema du Réel, Festival dei Popoli or Leipzig and been screened by broadcasters such as Arte, WDR, WNYC, Canal+, SVT or even Taiwan public TV. Their feature length documentary "Saudade do futuro" won the Audience award at the Rencontres internationales de Cinéma (Forum des Images). “Mahaleo” has won a SCAM Star in 2007, and was co-produced by ARTE France cinema with the support of Canal +. They both have been theatrically released in France and in the USA (Film Forum).  The most recent film is "An Opera from the Indian Ocean" , actually theatrically released in France. (Africultures)

"Our aim is to produce ambitious films that highlight a better cross cultural understanding. We are also committed in distributing films (narrative and documentary) from the Indian Ocean, Africa and the Carribean. An approach that we develop today on different media : cinema, television, DVD, VoD, CD, books." (Laterit Productions)

Filmography

angano... angano... Nouvelles de Madagascar (1989): Producer, Direction

L'opéra du bout du monde (2012): Producer, Editing, Direction