NYU Production Lab – Producing the Next Generation of Creatives

IN POST-PRODUCTION

SYNOPSIS: At 85-years old, film editor Jocelyne Bourgeois is goaded, coaxed, and challenged by her persistent filmmaker grandson to face her true identity. Together, they embark for the places she has avoided since World War II, putting back the scenes she edited out of her life.

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY: Mathieu Faure (MA, NYU Journalism)

Mathieu Faure is a French producer and an independent filmmaker. His short film, An Edited Life, won the 2018 Student Academy Award for Best Documentary, and is the basis of the Final Cut. Fauré graduated from the News and Documentary Masters program at the L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU. His work has been published in the New York Times and the Huffington Post, and aired on PBS NewsHour and CNN.