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Sylvie Verheyde
Sylvie Verheyde studied geography, music and drawing.
In 1990 she directed the Juan Rozoff video clip Comment tu dis? and worked on numerous films. Her short films were highly acclaimed: Entre chiens et loups won the Canal+ Award at the Clermont-Ferrand festival in 1992 and La Maison verte won the Jury Grand prix at Nancy in 1993.
Sylvie Verheyde then wrote the screenplay for Un frère, which she went on to direct, benefiting from the "avance sur recettes" subsidy scheme.
Un frère follows up themes previously dealt with in her short films, via the depiction of a popular, almost marginal milieu and the meeting of two worlds, the suburbs and the capital city. Yet neither is given preference over the other. Instead, the blockages and social cleavages seem to have more to do with the inhibition of people than external circumstances. Selected for the 50th Cannes Festival in the "Cinémas en France" section, Un frère won the Cyril Collard Prize in 1998. And, in addition to the film's critical success, praised for the high quality of its screenplay and direction, Emma de Caunes's role also won her the César award for Most Promising Young Actress in 1998. In 2000, Sylvie Verheyde directed her second feature film, Princesses once again starring Emma de Caunes.
Sang froidand Stella are the films she directed in 2006 and 2008.
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