Stéphanie is a bilingual writer-director with a love of elevated genre films, especially science-fiction and science-driven stories. Through her work, she likes to explore big questions about our future as a species and our place in the universe. Originally from France but now living in London, Stéphanie began her career at TF1 International and Canal Plus and worked in French TV as a screenwriter, co-creating the animated version of VALERIAN for Luc Besson. She studied filmmaking at UCLA. Her debut feature film THE QUIET HOUR, a sci-fi thriller that starred Dakota Blue Richards, premiered on Sky Cinema in the UK and was recently released on NETFLIX. Her next project as a writer-director, ICE, was selected for Fantasia’s Frontières, BiFan’s NAFF and Sofia Meetings and is now set up with NYC-based Visit Films. Her project BUGUL NOZ was selected for the 2021 Filmarket Hub’s Celtic Screen Talent Showcase during the Edinburgh Film Festival. Furthermore, the supernatural horror project she is producing, THE LAST MOON, was selected for the 2021 European Genre Forum, Frontières Forum, NAFF, Film London Production Finance Market  and won the inaugural 2021 Irish Film London Fellowship to the Stowe Lab in the U.S. Stéphanie is an alumna of Berlinale Talents and IFP Emerging Narrative Lab in NYC. She was featured in The Guardian newspaper in an article titled “The Final Frontier: how female directors broke into sci-fi”. She has just been selected for the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA)’s Springboard Scheme for emerging British filmmakers sponsored by the BFI and Netflix. She is represented by Zero Gravity Management in the U.S. as a writer-director.