Marjolaine Grappe
Marjolaine Grappe is an independent documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist and a 2020 and 2021 SFFILM FilmHouse resident. Her documentary on the financing of North Korea’s nuclear weapons, “All The Dictator’s Men,” was awarded the 2018 Albert Londres Prize. Her feature documentary debut, “The Color of Justice,” about justice in the death of New Yorker Eric Garner, premiered at CPH:DOX in 2019. She started her career in Washington, D.C., as a producer covering the 2008 U.S. presidential election. She went on to work in Asia as a foreign correspondent reporting from India (2009-2012) and China (2012-2016). She has directed several award-winning feature-length journalism investigations including “Guantanamo Limbo” and a series of investigative reports about China’s one-child policy. Her work has been supported by the Catapult Film Fund, SFFILM, SFFILM Invest, Field of Vision, the Rogovy Miller/Packan Documentary Fund, the CNC (Centre National du Cinéma), the PROCIREP, the SCAM Brouillon d’un Reve Grant and the Lagardère Foundation.
During her time as a fellow Marjolaine will be working on her project “Untitled Marjolaine Grappe Film.”