“Looking back, I see that alliances with women were extremely important to me. Alliances I forged at the very beginning of my path. With people who are still present in my life. Especially with my producer Bénédicte Couvreur, whom I have known since studying film. You have to know who you can rely on, otherwise you won’t make it.”
Sciamma is one of the initiators of Collectif 50/50, a feminist association that aims to promote equality between men and women and sexual and gender diversity in cinema and audiovisual. “A powerful alliance often doesn’t look powerful, but that doesn’t matter. Stick together and believe in your generation, then we are strong. I want to say that to women.”
Next, Sciamma wants to do “something international.” A film that is not set in France. “I have to try something new. Experiment. try something else”. Sciamma already indicated in which direction things might go. She is an ardent admirer of the Japanese anime master Hayao Miyazaki, so Sciamma in the US film magazine “Little White Lies”: “I love his masterpieces like ‘My Neighbor Totoro’ or ‘Spirited Away’. It would be wonderful if I might make a film like that one day.” ‘Ma vie de Courgette’, for which I wrote the screenplay, was also an animated film”.
