Journalism, Script doctoring, Activism – Valérie Osouf, director

✴︎ Journalism & publications
✴︎ Activism
✴︎ Interventions, teaching…

JOURNALISM

2023: Research on cosmopolitan megacities, Ocho (Montréal), Producer: DANIELA MUJICA.

2023: Feminicide of elderly women, Gédéon production. Producer: Fanny Glissant

2022: Documentary research for a feature-length fiction film on exile, Yzanakio (Montréal), producer: Eric Idriss Kanago.

2015-16: Fashion to the death, by Inge Altemeier, Arte Germany / NDR.

2013: The false promise of clean energy, by Steffen Weber, Arte Germany / WDR. Clean money from polluted air, by Inge Altemeier, Arte Germany / WDR.

2012: Oil companies, enemies of the climate, by Inge Altemeier, Arte Germany / WDR.

2011: Poison in our clothes, by Inge Altemeier, Arte Germany / WDR.

2010: Packaging that kills, by Inge Altemeier, Arte Germany / WDR.

History of the French secret services, by David Korn-Brzoza, France 2 / Program33.

2009: The green washing mensonge vert, by Inge Altemeier, Arte Germany / WDR.

2008: Welcome to women’s real lives, by Virginie Lovisone, Canal+ / Program33.

2007: France, the novel of the 50s, by Alain Moreau, France 2 / Program33.

2006: The Finaly case, by Alain Moreau, Noël Mamère & David Korn-Brzoza, France 2 / Program33.

2005: Minute Men, the border militia by Agnès Gattegno, Canal+ / Program33.

GI’s: the hidden face of the liberators, by Alain Moreau, France 3 / Program33.

The Republic’s invisible brothers, by Alain Moreau, France3 / Program33.

2000: Head of the culture desk at LCA ( La Chaîne Africaine) on TPS

1999: Trainee then freelancer at Le Monde newspaper (culture desk) & at RFI (Africa desk).

Trainee at France Inter (Rue des entrepreneurs, Didier ADES & Dominique Dambert)

1997 – 1999: Journalist, presenter and reporter at Sud FM & Radio Nostalgie (Dakar).

Editor-in-chief of the weekly film programme Le Clap

PROJECT EXPERTISE (FICTION AND DOCUMENTARIES) / TEACHING

2023 till 2025 (3-year contract) : Initial artistic assessment and rewriting/development consultancy, Programme CLAP ACP-UE / Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie.

June – July 2023: Writing consultant for Assia Tamerdjent with the Cité Internationale des Arts

2023: Organisation of Souleymane Cisse’s Carrosse d’Or and moderation of the masterclass (with Hamedine Kane & Philippe Faucon) for SRF, Quinzaine des Cinéastes, Cannes.

May 2023: Video art workshop with 15 young Congolese artists — Institut Français de Kinshasa

2022 – 2023: Jury CRESS/EHESS

2022: Jury FCAT Tarifa 19th edition (with Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese & Carlos Reviriego)

2014 – 2021: Commission CNC, Aide Cinémas du Monde

2019 – 2020: Commission OIF image de la Francophonie : Ouaga film Lab & Final cut Venise

2019: Mostra de Venise. Final Cut Jury (international support for feature film post-production) for OIF

2018 – 19: Selection of 2nd year student documentary projects – CinéFabrique – Lyon

2017-19: Documentary writing: 27h and 49h seminars, 2nd year Screenwriting section,C.L.C.F. (Paris)

2017: Documentary Theory and Practice – Professor at the International Department of Cinematography – Beijing Film Academy (Beijing National Film School), China.

2016: Documentary Fundamentals: 1st year Scriptwriting Section C.L.C.F. (Paris) Écriture documentaire : Séminaire de 36 heures, 3ème année Section scénario C.L.C.F. (Paris)

2015: Script Doctoring for various production companies (Back Up films, YellowMoon films, Deviant films, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, Guy Nattiv…)

Analysis and support for dozens of projects (fiction and documentaries), particularly on the African continent.

INTERVENTIONS

Festival « Bruits de langues » (University of Poitiers). Round table discussion « “National Identity” and immigration law » (1h30) with Théo Martineaud. Guests : Nicolas Ferran, director of Les Amoureux au ban public (Lovers in the public eye) (2011), & Valérie Osouf, director of Nationale Identity (2012).

Cinémathèque Française: conference on the economy of African cinema

Maison du Geste et de l’Image: avec l’écrivain Arno Bertina, intervention on the ethics of filming minorities

Université Paris 7 & Paris 8 : refugee colloquium

26 mai 2016 – Mediapart Evening at Théâtre de la Ville

11 oct. 2017 : Non-Place of the Exile seminar (EHESS)

Since June 2015, following on from my previous films (No comment: the country where you never get there and National Identity), I have joined groups fighting for freedom of movement and installation and have also been involved, through the SRF, in the occupation of the Théâtre de l’Odéon and against the Global Security Act.