Eugénie Grandval is a trained lawyer in both France and the United States. After working for two years at a law firm in New York, she shifted to film production, working successively for an independent production-distribution company (October Films), a legendary producer (Ed Pressman), and a studio (United Artists). Returning to France in 2004, she founded her own production company (FILM 8) and collaborated with Barbet Schroeder on the documentary ==L'Avocat de la Terreur== about Jacques Vergès. In 2008, she moved back to Los Angeles to run Paul Haggis’s production company (Highway 61), where she co-produced ==The Next Three Days== (Paul Haggis - 2010) and developed several projects, including ==Third Person== (Paul Haggis - 2013) and ==Gold== (Stephen Gaghan - 2015). Back in Paris, she worked on the screenplay for ==L'Amour Dure Trois Ans== (Frédéric Beigbeder - 2012) and developed several American projects for EuropaCorp. She co-wrote the comedy ==Lolo== (Julie Delpy - 2015). She completed the Ateliers Varan documentary directing training in 2018. Her first film as a writer-director, ==Punk, il était une fois Gilles Bertin==, aired on France 2 in 2021. Her last film ==Bulle Ogier, portrait d’une étoile cachée== has been selected at the Lumière de Lyon festival in 2024.