After attending this year’s Cannes Film Festival with several films she helped develop, Aude Py, mentor at LabMed 2025, has this fall been appointed Head of the Screenwriting Department at La Fémis, alongside Philippe Lasry.
As France’s National School for Film and Sound Professions, La Fémis remains one of the most prestigious film institutions in the world, training each year a new generation of writers and technicians who leave a lasting mark on French and international cinema.
Congratulations to Aude!
We are delighted to see her take part in this important mission of transmission and proud to count her among the mentors of Meditalents.
Franco-Swiss and trained as a philosopher, Aude lives and works in Paris. A screenwriter, author, script doctor, and curator, her films have been screened at major international festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, London, Locarno, Rotterdam, Montreal, Yerevan, Moscow, Taiwan, Annecy, San Sebastián, and Bucheon (South Korea), among others.
In 2026, she was nominated in the United States for Best Screenplay at the Annie Awards. She was also nominated in 2025 by the Florida Film Critics Circle for Best Adaptation, and in 2017 for Best Screenplay at the Swiss Film Awards.
Aude co-wrote the screenplay for Amélie and the Metaphysics of Tubes, selected for the Official Selection at Cannes in 2025, awarded the Audience Prize at Annecy in 2025, nominated for the Golden Globes in 2026 and for the European Film Awards in 2026. The film is also nominated for the 2026 Academy Awards in the category of Best Animated Feature Film.
She co-heads the screenwriting department at La Fémis in Paris and serves as curator and head of the artistic program at the Edgelands Institute, founded at Harvard and active in Medellín, Houston, Nairobi, and Geneva. In this context, she has created several artist residencies and is currently preparing an exhibition in collaboration with photographers from Magnum Photos in Geneva in May 2026.
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