UN AUTRE REGARD SUR LE SPORT

Stéphane Meunier
to chair

A jury of eight personalities (documentary professionals and athletes) will select the winners of the first Deauville Sport Doc Festival, chaired by Stéphane Meunier.

Stéphane Meunier marked a turning point in the world of sports documentaries when he plunged his camera into the intimacy of the French national team in 1998. "Les Yeux dans les Bleus" won a 7 d'or for best documentary.
His career as a journalist and filmmaker, however, does not end with this master stroke, which will live long in the memory of the French.

He first worked as an image reporter for several news magazines (24 heures on Canal Plus, La Marche du Siècle and Envoyé Spécial on France 2, Le Droit de Savoir on TF1, Zone Interdite and Capital on M6), covering geopolitical issues (the war in Lebanon, major labor strikes in Poland, the Iran/Iraq conflict, the Western Sahara conflict, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the Gulf War, the Bosnian War...).

With his ability to immerse himself and his original approach to filmmaking inherited from journalism, Stéphane has directed a number of documentaries, including "Une vie de prof", FIPA d'or 1993, "Les orphelins de Sarajevo" and "Un an dans la vie d'Emmanuelle". He also worked as an author on "Comme un coup de tonnerre", an exclusive documentary filmed day by day at the heart of Lionel Jospin's campaign HQ.

His career as a filmmaker is equally rich, with the film "Quelque chose de Johnny", made for Canal Plus to mark the singer's 60th birthday, "Ma Terminale", a 25-episode fiction series for M6, "2013, la fin du pétrole", a 52-minute futuristic drama, then "Foudre", a 26-episode 26-minute family drama series for France Télévisions, which lasted 5 seasons, as did the CUT series (350 episodes).

This was followed by " Fortunes", a TV film for Arte and France Télévisions that won awards at the Festival International Tous sur Ecrans in Geneva and the Prix Europa in Berlin, and a first feature film, "Un village presque parfait", starring Denis Podalydès, Lorant Deutsch, Lionel Astier, Didier Bourdon and Elie Semoun.

In 2023, Stéphane Meunier produced Virginie Sauveur's feature film Magnificat, starring Karine Viard and François Berléand, and the 6×52-minute series Rivière-Perdue for TF1.

He is currently working with Bertrand Cohen and Eugénie Dard on the sixth season of the "OPJ" series, broadcast on France 3.