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Dryades Films is a French production company founded in 2016 by Claire Babany, Eléonore Boissinot & Arié Chamouni, based in Paris and Marseille. We produce creative documentaries for the cinema, web & TV, focused on society, culture & human interest.
We have produced more than a dozen creative documentaries, selected at major international festivals including Locarno, IDFA, Visions du Réel, Busan, Sheffield and Dok Leipzig. Our filmography includes OUT by Denis Parrot (Sheffield Doc/Fest, Busan, Warsaw, FIPADOC; broadcast on Canal+, Ciné+, ARTE/MDR, LCP, RTS, RTBF, BeTV and Amazon Prime), NIGHTWATCHERS by Juliette de Marcillac (opening film at Visions du Réel, IDFA Best of Fests 2023), THE PATHAN SISTERS, directed by Eléonore Boissinot (Zonta Club award at the 2023 Locarno Film Festival Critics' Week). Our projects have been selected for leading international markets and labs, including IDFA Forum, Sheffield MeetMarket, Cannes Docs, TIFF Market, Durban FilmMart, DocsBarcelona, FIPADOC, and many others.
We are eager to build new international partnerships and develop ambitious documentaries across borders.
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A graduate from Sciences Po Paris, Claire is a film producer and director at Dryades Films. Before co-founding the company, Claire has worked 6 years as a line producer and then as a producer at the acclaimed French production company Les Films du Poisson, on noteworthy international co-productions such as Dror Moreh’s documentary feature THE GATEKEEPERS, a 2013 Academy Awards nominee. She worked on Blaise Harrison’s celebrated documentaries SUMMER GROWING UP (Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2011) and HARMONY (Locarno 2013). In 2016 she line produced 3 more documentaries among which EAT THAT QUESTION – FRANK ZAPPA IN HIS OWN WORDS, first presented at Sundance 2016 and theatrically released by Sony Pictures Classics. Claire has also produced a web documentary series for ARTE, MUSIC ON THE ROAD, shot in innovative binaural sound, later acquired by Fuse TV (USA).
Catherine Moore
Trained in social sciences and documentary filmmaking, Eléonore is a film producer and director, and co-founder of Dryades Films. She began her career assisting French anthropologists in Lebanon and India while studying Hindi. After several years working as a production manager for various production companies, she co-founded Dryades Films with Claire Babany.
Her first documentary as a director, THE PATHAN SISTERS, produced by Claire Babany and co-produced with France Télévisions (25 Shades of Docs), RTS, Lyon Capitale TV and Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, premiered at the 2023 Locarno Film Festival, in Critics' Week, where it received the Premio Zonta Club.
Graduated in Finance at Paris-Dauphine and Film & TV at Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Arié starts his career focusing on the financial aspects of the industry. After two internships at Gaumont Animation and StudioCanal, he joins Neuflize OBC, leading bank in film in France. He then slides to production companies at head of finance : Pierre-Ange Le Pogam's Stone Angels and Phantasm / Vixens. He works on films such as Grace of Monaco (Olivier Dahan) or Smart Ass (Kim Chapiron), and also on many commercials and music videos. In 2018, he joins JohnDoe Productions (UGC group) as producer. He oversees a dozen projects in development (series and features) and produces two shorts : Bienvenue (V. Julé) and Lynx (J. Henry). In 2020, he starts his own production company, Roby Films. In 2021, he integrates the prestigious one-year "Writing and Creation of Series" training at La Fémis.