Marion Despouys

Producer

Marion is a producer, a journalist and a documentary film maker. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from l’Ecole Française de Journalisme de Paris, as well as a degree from l’Ecole des Métiers du Cinéma et de la Vidéo, in Quebec, Canada.

She was a journalist in Casablanca, Morocco, from 2007 to 2010. Soon after the end of her experience in Morocco, she decided to become a documentary filmmaker. After returning to France, she made her debut short documentary Lettres d'Algerie, which received an award at the Hendaye Film Festival in 2013.

From 2013 to 2015, Marion was head of the film archiving and corporate video department at the French energy company EDF. While working for EDF, she made her second documentary Adam, le Marathon d’un Réfugié which she completed in 2016.
Marion is based in Paris. She is involved in the making of several documentaries.