About the Author
After training as an engineer specializing in ecology, Émilie Prouteau turned to filmmaking around ten years ago. Trained in classical guitar, she began her career working on multi-camera recordings of live performances, including Jazz à la Villette, combining her passions for music and visual storytelling. She has also directed films for the Philharmonie de Paris.
Alongside this work, she has developed a documentary practice, completing training at the Ateliers Varan in 2020 and further training in screenwriting at La Fémis in 2024. She is currently writing her first feature-length documentary, La Terre de San, supported by the Meditalents residency.
Developed Projects
Imagine a great linden tree standing in the middle of a courtyard that stretches between a large farmhouse and the kitchen garden. This is where, on the farm, Mylène and Sylvain live with their three children, homeschooling them, feeding their family from their own livestock and crops, grown without machines, in a space and time beyond all notion of performance, in pursuit of a life that is both grounded and free, as earthly as it is spiritual. The boundaries between work, school, home, what they produce and what they eat have dissolved entirely. With quiet conviction, they shape their daily life into something soft and malleable, reclaiming their gestures one by one, whatever the cost. But what happens when social time collides with the time of utopia?
From Script to Screen
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