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BIOGRAPHY

Simon Panay Réalisateur Si tu es un homme Ici Personne ne Meurt Nobody Dies Here If you are a man JHR distribution Cercamon World Sales Documentaire Documentary Lagardère Canal+ International CNC
SIMON PANAY

Son of winegrowers, I first learned to make films with my brothers and a small mini-dv camera. It is in West Africa that I experiment through documentaries, gradually finding my cinematographic language through the films and creating a deep anchoring with Burkina.

 

Laureate from the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation Documentary Grant and the Author's Career Grant from the CNC (French Film Institute), I now develop several live action projects in West Africa, pursuing my dive in the artisanal gold mines world, that fascinates me.

DIRECTOR

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IF YOU ARE A MAN
In production

Foundation documentary grant Jean-Luc Lagardère 2019

CNC Development fund

Thirteen-year-old Opio works at the Perkoa gold mine in Burkina Faso. To pay his tuition, he will have to go down to work in the underworld, risking his life.

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NOBODY DIES HERE
2016 - 23 mn

Perma gold mine, Benin. There are those who dream of finding and those who have realized that there is nothing to find. There are those who dig hoping to get rich and those who have died thinking they are getting rich. And then there are the others who say that nobody dies here.

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WAITING FOR THE (T)RAIN
2015 - 25 mn

A small village lost in a desert of dust, in the bush of Burkina. The oldest have known slavery in the service of France, the youngest dream of distant horizons.

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DRÔLE DE GUERRE
2013 - 13 min

Matis, a young child, is dropped off with his grandfather for a few days, so that he does not see his mother sink into illness. To kill time, he is going to play with his grandfather's things, an old pistol and a resistance medal.

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TONTINES,
UNE AFFAIRE DE FEMMES
2014 - 52 mn

Every Wednesday, twenty women gather in the courtyard of Fatoumata to hold the Tontine meeting, a cooperative banking system, but it is also the only time of the week when they can meet with women ...

133 AWARDS FOR "NOBODY DIES HERE"

390 SELECTIONS

2016

FIRST JURY PRIZE
BEST DOCUMENTARY

20th Flickers' Rhode Island
International Film Festival

2017

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY

33th Vues d'Afrique

Montréal - Canada

2016

JURY PRIZE

Tangier International Film Festival

SCRIPTWRITER

ALBI
In development

Feature film - France - Burkina Fas

Produced by Xavier Castano
- Loull Production

Written with the collaboration of Eve Deboise and Souleymane Drabo

With the support of the CNC

With the support of Bourgogne Franche-Comté 

In a Burkina Faso that sees the specter of war, a street vendor and an albino child will be friends.

UNTIL THEY FALL
Writing in progress

Feature film - France - India

Produced by Samuel François-Steininger - Composite Films

NOUS SOMMES TOUS
DES PANDAS
Writing in progress

Dramatic comedy feature film

Directed by Gérard Krawczyk

Produced by Oz Production

JOUR 26
In development

Feature film - France - Sierra-Leone

Produced by Xavier Castano - Loull Production and Scope Pictures

Written with the collaboration of Eve Deboise

Alice and Bintou do not know each other, six thousand kilometers separate them. The first fights to gain an important position in a bank, the second to preserve her family. But one can only win at the expense of the other.

LE ROYAUME AUX DEUX SOLEILS
In development

Adventure feature film - France - China

Directed by Ludovic Bernard

Produced by Xavier Castano - Loull Production

JESSE OWENS ET LUZ LONG,
LE TEMPS D’UNE ÉTREINTE
2016

CO-WRITING - DOCUMENTARY 52 '

Directed by Véronique Lhorme

Produced by La cuisine aux Images

Diffusion: Planet +

During the 1936 Olympic Games, Hitler's favorite sportsman and black-American sportsman Jesse Owens will compete under the eyes of the Führer in the long jump. Against all expectations, a long friendship will be born between the two men, which will unleash the anger of the Third Reich as well as of American authorities.

LE GANG DES MAMIES
In development

Feature film

Produced by Xavier Castano - Loull Production

A crazy comedy inspired by real events. In the United States, a mysterious gang of grannies, which the press will call "Mad Hatters", will have raged for nearly two decades without the state police or the FBI being able to identify them.

LES CHOPEURS
Looking for a director

Comedy feature film

Produced by Xavier Castano - Loull Production

They have just passed their baccalaureate and are leaving with friends to the sea with the firm intention of winning hearts, but that's without counting on the fact that they will have to share the holiday home with a family of Yemeni refugees ...

THE WHITE-SKINNED KID
Preproduction

Live-action short

Produced by Bandini Films

With the support of the Region Grand-Est and France Televisions.

Sold by his father to a group of gold miners working hundred meters underground, Issa get employed by force and crystallise all hopes.

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