Chantal Poupaud

Chantal Poupaud (née Richard; died 21 June 2022) was a French film producer, director and screenwriter. After starting out as a press attachée, she was behind the 1990s Arte series Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge [fr].

Chantal Poupaud
Born	Chantal Richard
Died	21 June 2022
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Film producer, director, screenwriter
Children	2

Biography

Poupaud grew up in Brissac-Quincé in Maine-et-Loire.^[1] She worked to promote the films of Marguerite Duras for seven years, as well as films directed by Benoît Jacquot, Chantal Akerman, Lino Brocka, Aki Kaurismäki, and Wim Wenders.^[2]

At the start of the 1990s, Poupaud discovered the idea for Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge while watching her two sons, Yarol [fr], aged 18 and Melvil, aged 14. She believed that being a teenager was the same for all, despite different circumstances.^[3] She then invented the idea of a series of films on adolescence.^[4] Her series was broadcast in 1994 and received critical acclaim.

In the late 1990s, Poupaud experienced health problems, inspiring her to create a series based on "a heroine who finds herself facing a therapist after having found herself struggling with her body". She produced a series titled Toutes les femmes sont folles and the Jacquot-directed 1997 film Seventh Heaven, both based on this idea.^[5]

Chantal Poupaud died on 21 June 2022.^[6]

Filmography

Producer

• Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge (1994)
• Seventh Heaven (1997)
• Under the Sand (2000)
• Crossdresser (2010)

Director

• Maurice le mauricien (2000)
• Crossdresser (2010)

Screenwriter

• Riviera (2005)