Flore Vasseur (born 1973) is a French film director, screenwriter, film producer, novelist, journalist and entrepreneur. Her first feature-length documentary film, '' Bigger Than Us'' (2021), premiered in the ''Cinema for the Climate'' section at the

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and was nominated for the 2022 César Award for Best Documentary Film.

Personal life

Vasseur is a former

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champion. She graduated in Business and Marketing at

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, and in Political Studies at the

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. Vasseur lives in France and has two children.

Filmography

Documentaries

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

: ''Meeting Snowden'' (medium-length film) *

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

: '' Bigger Than Us''

Television

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

: ''TED: 18 minutes pour changer le monde'' (short film): co-director and writer *

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

: ''Les Insoumises'' (documentary): writer *

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

–

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

: ''

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'' (mini-series): script consultant

Books

* ''Une fille dans la ville'' (2006) * ''Comment j’ai liquidé le siècle'' (2010) * ''En bande organisée'' (2013) * ''Ce qu'il reste de nos rêves'' (2019) * ''Et maintenant, que faisons-nous ?'' (2024)

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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