Catherine Léger(I)

Catherine Léger writes for film, TV and theater. Her screenplay for "Charlotte a du fun" (Charlotte a 17 ans (2018)), won her the Best Original Screenplay award at the 2019 Canadian Screens. The film, directed by Sophie Lorain) and produced by Amérique Film, played at several festivals, including Tribeca, Tokyo and Angoulême. She also co-wrote the screenplay for "La Petite Reine" (La petite reine (2014), directed by Alexis Durand-Brault, and adapted Geneviève Pettersen's novel "La Déesse des mouches à feu" (La déesse des mouches à feu (2020)) for film, directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette. The feature film has been officially selected for the 70th Berlin International Film Festival 2020. For TV, she wrote Les Invisibles (2019) and worked on the series Marche à l'ombre (2015). Catherine Léger's theater credits include "Princesses" (Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui, 2011), "J'ai perdu mon mari" (Quai des arts, Carleton-sur-mer, 2014) and "Filles en liberté" (Théâtre La Licorne, 2018). Her play "Baby-sitter" presented at Théâtre La Licorne in April 2017 has been performed in Ohio, Limoges and Munich. She also wrote the film adaptation, directed by Monia Chokri, which opened in France and Canada in spring 2022, and was selected at Sundance and Tribeca.