Isabelle Boni-Claverie

Isabelle Boni-Claverie is a French filmmaker, screenwriter, and author. At eighteen, she won second prize for the Young Francophone Writer Award for her first novel, La Grande Dévoreuse. In 2005, Danny Glover asked her to adapt Valérie Tong Cuong’s novel, Où je suis, into the screenplay Heart of Blackness. She has since written numerous television dramas and series, including the comedy Sex, Okra and Salted Butter (ARTE), Seconde Chance (TF1), Coeur Océan (France 2), and Plus Belle La Vie (France 3), the most watched TV series in France. Two of her first short films, Pour la nuit and Le Génie d’Abou won international awards. Broadcast for the first time on the Franco-German television channel ARTE in 2015, her documentary Too Black to Be French? was a hit both with audiences and the media and screened internationally. She has produced and cowritten a documentary about diversity at the Paris Opera that will air on ARTE this year.