Coralie Fargeat
Birthplace – Paris, France
Coralie Fargeat is one of the fastest-rising French filmmakers, known for films saturated in extreme emotions (often, vengeance) and violence which are influenced by Korean genre cinema. Fargeat made an independent short film in her twenties as director/writer, Le télégramme (2003), which won prizes at major festivals including the Amiens and Fajr Film Festivals, and then Fargeat created a TV comedy miniseries titled Les Fées cloches (2007).
Fargeat returned to making short films after studying at the prestigious Paris-based film/TV school, La Fémis, with the sci-fi film, Reality+ (2014), which won the European Sogni Award at the Antonio Ricci Short Film Festival and screened at the Tribeca Film Festival. Fargeat made her feature debut as director/writer of the bloody feminist thriller, Revenge (2017), starring Matilda Lutz and premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, won best film at the world’s top genre film festival (Sitges in Spain) and was released in the U.S. by Neon.
Coralie Fargeat was for the first time director/writer/producer/editor of an English-language feature with the body-horror film The Substance (2024), starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid, co-produced with Working Title Films and released by Mubi, and which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival where it won the best screenplay Palme prize.
Personal Details
Coralie Fargeat was born and raised in Paris, France by her parents. Fargeat attended Institut d’études politiques de Paris and then worked as a production assistant on films being shot in Paris. After making two short films, Fargeat was accepted to the prestigious film/television school of PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres) Research University known as La Fémis (École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l’Image et du Son), where she was selected for the screenwriting workshop Atelier Scenario, and also helped create a filmmakers collective known as Squadra, which was devoted to making and learning about the challenges of genre filmmaking in France.
Filmography
Revenge
Director (2018)
The Substance
Director (2024)
Some Facts About Coralie Fargeat
For Gender Equality: Coralie Fargeat is a founding signatory of Collectif 50/50 which advocates for gender equality in the French film industry.
Awards
Winner, Best Film, Audi Talents Award (2014); Winner, Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival Awards (2024); Two-time Nominee, Best Limited Feature/Best Director, Fangoria Chainsaw Awards (2019); Two-time Winner, Best Director/Best New Director, Sitges Film Festival (2017); Nominee, Best Narrative Short, Tribeca Film Festival (2016).
