Florence Jaugey
| Florence Jaugey | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 June 1959 Nice, France |
| Residence | Managua, Nicaragua |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | ENSATT Paris, France |
| Occupation | Movie director, screenwriter, actress, producer |
| Years active | Since 1979 |
| Partner(s) | Frank Pineda |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | http://www.camilafilms.com/ |
Florence Jaugey (born 22 June 1959) is a French movie director, actress, producer, and screenwriter who lives in Nicaragua. In 1989 Jaugey co-founded with her partner and Nicaraguan filmmaker Frank Pineda, Camila Films (Nicaragua), an independent film production company based in Managua. In 1998, her film Cinema Alcázar, won the Silver Bear award at the Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale.
Florence Jaugey was born in Nice, France in 1959 and studied drama in Paris at the ENSATT (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre). She worked as an actress during the 1980s. In 1984 she traveled to Nicaragua to be the lead actress in the movie El Señor Presidente directed by the Cuban director Manuel Octavio Gómez. She settled down in Nicaragua at the end of the 80s.
In 1989, together with Frank Pineda a Nicaraguan filmmaker and her partner, they set up in Managua, Camila Films Production Company, an independent film company, directing and producing several short and documentary films, and one feature film La Yuma (2010). A second feature film titled Naked Screen (2014), original title in Spanish La Pantalla Desnuda, is in its post production phase and it is reported to be released later this year.
Jaugey's filmmaking has focused on the poverty-stricken people of Nicaragua, such as her short film Cinema Alcázar, winner of the Silver Bear at Berlinale (1998) the first one for Nicaragua. This documentary is about the people that live in the ruins of an earthquake destroyed movie house from the 1950s located in the center of Managua. The documentary The Island of the Lost Children (2001), original title in Spanish La Isla de los Niños Perdidos, filmed in jail and winner of the Society of Authors Award at the International Documentary Festival Cinéma du Réel in Paris in 2002.
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