Yves Lavandier (born April 2, 1959) is a French film writer and director.

Biography

Yves Lavandier was born on April 2, 1959. After receiving a degree in civil engineering, he studied film at

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, New York, between 1983 and 1985. Miloš Forman, František Daniel, Stefan Sharff,

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, Larry Engel and Melina Jelinek were among his teachers. During these two years, he wrote and directed several shorts including '' Mr. Brown?'', '' The Perverts'' and '' Yes Darling''. He returned to France in 1985, directed another short, '' Le scorpion'', and embarked on a scriptwriting career mainly for television. He is the creator of an English teaching sitcom called '' Cousin William''. In addition to his career as scriptwriter, he began to teach screenwriting throughout Europe and published a treatise on the subject titled '' Writing Drama''. For the occasion he founded his own publishing and production company, Le Clown & l'Enfant. ''Writing Drama'' is now considered a bible amongst European scriptwriters and playwrights, and Yves Lavandier a renowned script consultant. Among other things, Yves Lavandier is a pitch expert for Dreamago. He is also the author of a screenwriting manual called ''

Constructing a Story ''Constructing a Story'' (French: ''Construire un récit'') by filmmaker and script doctor Yves Lavandier ('' Writing Drama''), is a treatise on conceiving and writing stories for the cinema, the theater, television, and comic books, but also fo ...

''. In March 2015, he launched in English a web series entitled ''

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'', described as a "tribute to the creative people who invent narratives, characters, fictitious worlds, structures and... meaning". In August and September 2000, he shot his first feature film as writer-director, '' Yes, But...'', which deals with brief therapy and teenage sexuality. It was released in France on April 18, 2001 and won several Audience Awards in festivals around the world. In 2022, Yves Lavandier published a

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as a writer, entitled '' L'Institutrice'' ("The schoolteacher"). The art and color are by

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. The story is set in June 1944 in

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, two weeks after Operation Overlord has been launched. Marie-Noëlle, the schoolteacher in a tiny Breton village, battles to save a Jewish pupil from the local militia. The publisher is

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. Yves Lavandier is married with four children.

References

External links

*
Le Clown & l'Enfant web site

on Writing Drama
Interview
on Yes, But...
Hats off to the screenwriters!
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