Juliette Achard

Juliette Achard is an editor and filmmaker. She was born in 1985 in the suburbs of Paris. After studying film in Toulouse and Paris, she moved to Brussels where she began working as an editor and assistant, notably with filmmaker Boris Lehman. Since 2011, she has been directing all the video creations for the shows of the Collectif Mensuel, a major French-speaking Belgian theater company. At the same time, she leads film education and workshop film projects, with a focus on the principles of popular education. In 2017, she directed her first film, Saule Marceau. This short film is both a portrait of her brother, a farmer in the Limousin region, and a personal look at landscapes and intertwined collective stories. It has been selected and awarded prizes at numerous festivals in Europe. Juliette Achard then co-directed several short films with Ian Menoyot, including Main pour main and Boulevards de la Senne. Labore nobile is her first feature film.