Stéphanie is a bilingual writer-director with a love of elevated genre films, especially science-fiction and science-driven stories. In her work, she likes exploring the big questions about our future as a species and our place in the universe.

Stéphanie grew up in Brittany, on the West Coast of France. She began her career in story development at TF1 International and Canal Plus and worked as a story editor and screenwriter for French TV for several years. She created a Sci-Fi animated series for Luc Besson’s Europa Corp: VALERIAN & LAURELINE before studying filmmaking at UCLA.

Her first feature film as a writer-director was THE QUIET HOUR, a sci-fi thriller starring Dakota Blue Richards (The Golden Compass, Skins, Endeavour) and Jack McMullen (Le Mans VS Ferrari). THE QUIET HOUR premiered at Galway Film Fleadh, vied for Best British Film at Raindance and the Grand Prix at the Sofia International Film Festival, won Best Film at Kansas City Film Fest, showcased at Newport Beach, premiered on Sky Cinema in the UK in 2016 and is now available on Amazon Prime in the U.S. 

Stéphanie is currently developing her second feature as a writer-director, ICE, a sci-fi thriller which was selected for the 2020 Sofia Meetings, Filmarket Hub's UK Online Pitchbox, BiFan's NAFF Project Event, and the Frontières co-production market at Fantasia.

Stéphanie is an alumna of Berlinale Talent and IFP Emerging Narrative in NYC. She lives in London, UK, and is a member of Directors UK and the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers (SACD) in France. A world traveler, she has lived in Norway, Canada, the U.S. and Germany before calling England home.