Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar

She began as a jour­nal­ist at “The Hol­ly­wood Reporter” in Los Ange­les and then became a film con­sul­tant for dif­fer­ent pro­duc­ers, before mov­ing back to France to pro­duce on her own. In 2008, she co-wrote and pro­duced Lucien Jean-Baptiste’s La pre­mière étoile. Fol­low­ing its huge box office suc­cess, she made her first fea­ture film Ma pre­mière fois. She is also the founder and pres­i­dent of Le Cer­cle Féminin du Cin­e­ma Français.