Coralie Fargeat
Coralie Fargeat (born 1976) is a French film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 2017 debut feature film "Revenge". Early life. Fargeat was born and raised in Paris. She decided to be a filmmaker when she was 16 or 17 years old. Fargeat studied at the Paris Institute of Political Studies before beginning work on film sets. She later completed a year-long director's workshop for continuing education at La Fémis, a prestigious cinema school in Paris. Fargeat lists David Cronenberg, John Carpenter, David Lynch, and Michael Haneke as filmmakers who have influenced her . Career. Fargeat's first short film "Le télégramme" was released in 2003, a film about two women awaiting a postman's delivery during World War II. The film won 13 awards at several film festivals. In 2007, Fargeat co-created "Les Fées cloches"  with Anne-Elisabeth Blateaur, a comedy mini-series which she also directed. Fargeat released her short follow-up "Reality+" in 2014. The sci-fi tale received a nomination for the Jury Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. Fargeat's debut feature film was "Revenge", a feminist revenge thriller about a young woman assaulted and left for dead . The film had its world premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival in the festival's Midnight Madness section, and was selected to be screened at 23 additional film festivals. Fargeat is a member and one of the founding signatories of Collectif 50/50, a group established with the purpose of working towards gender equality across the film industry. In February 2022, it was reported that Fargeat's next feature film will be "The Substance", a feminist body horror film written by Fargeat and produced by Universal Pictures and Working Title Films. Production of the film, which stars Demi Moore , Margaret Qualley, and Ray Liotta, will begin in May 2022. Fargeat also directed an episode of the upcoming Netflix series "The Sandman".