A PARIS EDUCATION

Born in 1964, Jean Paul Civeyrac graduated in Philosophy from the University of Lyon, before studying Film at La Fémis in Paris. La Vie selon Luc (1991), the short feature he made there, was selected in competition at Cannes. His feature All the Fine Promises won the Jean Vigo Prize in 2003. Alongside his work as a filmmaker, Jean Paul Civeyrac has taught at La Fémis, Paris VIII University, and Cours Florent drama school. In 2014, De L’Incidence Éditeur published Écrit entre les jours, a collection of Civeyrac’s texts devoted to cinema and music, and in 2017 P.O.L. published his essay on filmmaking “Rose pourquoi.”