Kathy Sebbah

Kathy Sebbah is born in Toulouse

She joined the ESAV and then the FEMIS where she was studying the film image. Framing, lighting, photography brought her to work with talented directors of photography on films with directors she still admires and who left a mark on her work : Michel Gondry (La science des rêves and Une épine dans le coeur), Bertrand Mandico (a dozen of short films, publicity and clips), Michelangelo Antonioni on his last movie, Cédrid Klapisch, Olivier Babinet... 

In parallel with her image work, she directed short films which made her a name in various festivals (Pantin, Oberhausen, Upsala, Lisboa, Vila do Conde...). Mic Jean-Louis won the Prize of interpretation in Clermont-Ferrand with other awards, La Harde won the Grand Award in the Aix-En-Provence Festival, and both of them had been selected for the César and the Lutins du Court-métrage.

Followed Dancing Odéon, which had taken part in the ACID selection in Cannes and obtained the quality grant and the post production grant of Ciné 93. 

She directed a musical film with Vincent delerme, in a movie collection commissioned by France TV - Histoire de Vincent Delerm. 

In between her director work, she is also writing a feature film scenario, Je suis la petite renarde, which received the writing grant of the CNC and of the Midi Pyrénées Region.

She is an active member of filmmakers association ACID, which takes part in the Cannes' selections, but also works on the relation between the young generations and cinema. 

SOLASTALGIE is her last project. It aspires to highlight existential questions of today's teenagers, terrorised by the consequences of climate change and the inaction of the policy-makers. It would mix love for an unknown father, appearing like the prophet of the Apocalypse, and  the vertigo of the wild Nature's beauty.