"Poetry, politics, and a fierce desire to break down taboos and masks. The films that move me are powerful in substance and ideally just as radical in form. I love documentaries that leave an indelible mark on our brains and guts, whether through extensive use of archives or handheld cameras—the more it scratches, the better!"

Director, producer, and author, Amandine Gay works to reclaim storytelling in order to highlight the multiple communities she belongs to. After Speak Up: Make Your Way, her first self-produced and self-distributed film that gives a voice to 24 French-speaking Afro-descendant women which was released in theaters in France, Belgium, and Switzerland in 2017 and in Canada in 2018, she directed a second documentary, A Story of One's Own. This archival film about international adoption from the perspective of five adoptees, now adults, was released in French theaters in June 2021 and at the Cinémathèque québécoise in August 2022. In 2021, she published her first book with La Découverte (France) and Remue-Ménage (Quebec), Une poupée en chocolat, an autobiographical essay on adoption.

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