About the Author
Giulia Montineri is an anthropologist by training. Self-taught as a filmmaker, she directed Gracias por visitar, exploring the intersection of tourism and colonialism in the Andes (Corsica Doc 2019). Passionate about writing and social dynamics, she worked as a script consultant in fiction, notably for Brigitte Sy, adapting Albertine Sarrazin's L'Astragale(2015). Since 2019, she has led the Doc en cours writing workshops at Lundi Soir, in Paris then Marseille, as a script doctor for documentary. She writes and directs films about her native Corsica, its identity fantasies and collective mythologies. As part of this journey of "critical reconciliation", she directed ZIE (2020, 52', Via Stella) and Julie, récit d'un féminicide (63', France 2, 2023), for which she received the documentary author grant from the Fondation Lagardère in 2022. She subsequently reedited a theatrical version.
Developed Projects
In 2020, I begin a correspondence with Cathy Châtelain, imprisoned for her involvement in a mafia vendetta. A prison officer at the time of the events, she took part in the criminal commando known as "Catwoman" from the prison of Borgo, in Upper Corsica, where I was born. *Catwoman* is built from a correspondence under surveillance, with no access to bodies, to the prison, or to images from the trial. Our letters become the only possible space for an encounter, shaped by waiting, projections and misunderstandings. Our trajectories question the fascination with organised crime and the place a woman might attempt to claim within it. Between Marseille, where I live, the Cour d'Assises of Aix-en-Provence, where Cathy is tried, and a Corsica as much mental as real, the film explores our asymmetrical friendship and our respective needs for belonging and recognition.
From Script to Screen
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