Born in Paris in 1982, Nora Philippe graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure with a major in Literature and Arts/Cinema, from New York University (Graduate School of Arts– Visual Anthropology) and Paris-VII Jussieu University (Post-Grad in Documentary filmmaking and Cinema Production). She has been a Producer and Documentary filmmaker since 2006. She produced and directed a wide range of short portraits of prominent contemporary artists that were broadcast on web-TVs from 2006 to 2008 (Anthony McCall, Louise Bourgeois…). As a partner of Paris-based production company Abacaris Films, she served various positions, from script-doctor to executive producer on a dozen documentary films financed by Arte and France Television, among which the internationally broadcast As a Young Girl of Thirteen... Simone Lagrange remembers Auschwitz (2009). Her latest production as a scriptwriter, La Galerie du Temps, a 52’ on the new Louvre Museum in Northern France, gained acclaimed critical coverage when broadcast on Arte in December 2012. She has also directed three documentary films (among which The Ensorcery of James Ensor, 60’, ARTE/RTBF, 2010) and is in the process of shooting two more in 2013. With her new company Les films de l’air and a Partner in NY, she now focuses on feature
films and has started developing fictions.
films and has started developing fictions.