Virginie is an award-winning editor, director, writer, and filmmaker. Her work has been broadcast on major networks including the History Channel, PBS, A&E, Bravo, E! and TLC. She has worked on documentaries, narrative feature films and shorts and has written, directed and edited 3 short narrative films that were shown at more than 30 film festivals.

Virginie grew up in France and developed an early taste for moviemaking by watching films and reading about everything cinema. Her tastes rapidly evolved toward American film noir and classic French and European suspense films. Hitchcock, Hawks, Visconti, Ophüls, Polanski, Melville, Besson were among her favorite directors growing up.

She crossed the Atlantic and visited New York City for the first time at age 16. The experience was so powerful that she made a promise to herself: she would live here. Less than 10 years later, her dream became a reality.

After going to college and studying at The Institute of Political Science in Paris, she worked as a freelance journalist for a movie magazine called “Cinema”. She then won a Fulbright scholarship and a grant from The American Women’s Group in Paris and came to study filmmaking in the U.S.

She graduated from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications with a Master’s degree in TV-Film-Radio Production and upon graduating won the Gordon J. Alderman Award for creativity, cooperation and leadership qualities.

In New York, she started working for small production companies, making her way up from receptionist to production assistant, and eventually to assistant editor. From the start, she had two goals: write and direct her own films and establish herself as a full-fledge film editor.

Virginie has been working as a freelance editor since 1997. She edited a dozen narrative shorts and two features. She edits both fiction and non-fiction projects. A documentary she edited for the show NOW on PBS: “Child Brides: Stolen Lives” was nominated in 2008 for an Emmy Award, and won the 2007 Edward R. Murrow Award for best TV documentary for international affairs from the Overseas Press Club.

During her college years in Paris, she attended a screenwriting workshop at La Sorbonne University and wrote a treatment for a feature film which took place in a funeral home. After graduating from S.U. and writing and directing school projects, she wrote her first un-produced full-length screenplay, a coming of age story.

In 1996, she wrote, directed, and edited her first narrative short “K.622” based on a novel by French writer Christian Gailly, followed by “Miracle Growth” in 2001, and “Sparks” in 2003. Each of her shorts traveled and won acclaims at many film festivals in the U.S. and abroad.

Virginie attended Ela Thier’s 8-week screenwriting workshop, Judith Weston’s “Directing Actors” workshop, and Adrienne Weiss’ intensive workshop: “Directing Actors for Film.”

She is a creative storyteller, a fun collaborator, and is very dedicated and passionate about her craft.

Writer-Director-Editor, Short Films & Music Videos

Writer-Director-Editor :

- "The Chipmaker", Thriller/Corporate espionage, feature film in development (2010)
- "Sparks", 35mm short film - 15:45 (2004) - shown in +25 film festivals.
- "Miracle Growth", DV short - 22:00 (2001)
- "K.622", 16mm short film - 15:00 (1997)

Director-Editor:

- "Birthday", music video (2000)

Director, Corporate Videos

- "Silver Hill Hospital": short documentary & series of commercials for Silver Hill psychiatric hospital in New Canaan, CT (2006)

Education and Training

Adrienne Weiss' workshop: Directing Actors for Film (2009)

Ela Thier's 8-week screenwriting workshop (2008)

Final Cut Pro Instructor - Spring Semester 2004
Long Island University, Brooklyn

Judith Weston's workshop: Acting for Directors (2003)

HB Studio, one semester class on Directing (1997)

Master of science in TV-Radio-Film, 1990
Syracuse University/S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

Fulbright Scholarship Award, 1989

The American Women's Group in Paris Scholarship Award, 1989

The Gordon J. Alderman Award for creativity, cooperation
and leadership qualities, 1990

Bachelor's degree, 1987
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris

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