Vanessa Filho

Knocked out by Krzysztof Kieślowski’s films and the music composed for him by Zbigniew Preisner, whose requiem she listened to over and over again in her bedroom, at the age of 13, Vanessa Filho decided that, one day, she would become a director.

Without a moment’s hesitation, at the age of 19, she directed a medium-length film. Yet it was the music industry that gave her the freedom to exercise her eagerness to create pictures. For several years, she elaborated the visual imagination of the group AaRON and directed their first music videos.

Her desire for cinema caught up with her, and she wrote her first feature film, Gueule d’Ange, in which Marion Cotillard played the leading role in 2018, selected in Cannes in the Un Certain Regard category.

Vanessa continued exploring her passion for photography in the exhibition ”Résistance” which showcases fantasised intimacy. She is currently preparing her next film, "Le Consentement", based on the book by Vanessa Springora.

Biographie

Knocked out by Krzysztof Kieślowski’s films and the music composed for him by Zbigniew Preisner, whose requiem she listened to over and over again in her bedroom, at the age of 13, Vanessa Filho decided that, one day, she would become a director.

Without a moment’s hesitation, at the age of 19, she directed a medium-length film. Yet it was the music industry that gave her the freedom to exercise her eagerness to create pictures. For several years, she elaborated the visual imagination of the group AaRON and directed their first music videos.

Her desire for cinema caught up with her, and she wrote her first feature film, Gueule d’Ange, in which Marion Cotillard played the leading role in 2018, selected in Cannes in the Un Certain Regard category.

Vanessa continued exploring her passion for photography in the exhibition ”Résistance” which showcases fantasised intimacy. She is currently preparing her next film, "Le Consentement", based on the book by Vanessa Springora.