MISS CHAZELLE

 

Credits

Director / Writer   Thomas Vernay

Producer   Qui Vive, Thomas Vernay

Project Type   Short

Runtime   21 minutes

Country of Origin   France

Sinopsis

Clara and Marie are rivals. Clara is named first runner-up and Marie has been crowned Miss Chazelles-sur-Lyon.

In the village where they live, tensions mount between Clara’s friends and Marie’s family, while the two young women seem to have an ambiguous relationship.

 

Director Biography

After an Art Direction degree, Thomas Vernay directed his first short film Dryad, a fantastic tale inspired by pictorial art, and the sound/image relationship. The film is in competition at the SITGES Fantastic Film Festival in 2016. It will be selected in more than 70 festivals and will win more than a dozen prizes.

After directing multi-awarded music videos, he directs his second short film Miss Chazelles, a drama shot in his childhood village. The film questions social and sentimental determinism