Eugénie Grandval

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.