Marina de Van

Marina de Van (French: [də van]; born 8 February 1971)^[1][2] is a French film director, screenwriter and actress. Her film, Don't Look Back, was screened out of competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.^[3]

Marina de Van
Born	(1971-02-08) 8 February 1971 (age 54) France
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter, actress
Years active	1993–present

Her brother is Adrien de Van [fr], he appeared with her in the 1998 film Sitcom playing her brother.^[4] In her directing debut In My Skin in 2002, he played an intern. ^[5]

She studied in the directing department of La Fémis, from which she was graduated in 1997.^[6]

Selected filmography

• See the Sea (1997) (actress, writer)
• Sitcom (1998) (actress)
• 8 Women (2002) (writer)
• In My Skin (2002) (writer/director)
• La clef (2007) (actress)
• Don't Look Back (2009) (writer/director)
• Hop-o'-My-Thumb (2011) (director/collaborating writer)
• Dark Touch (2012) (writer/director)

Further reading

• Tim Palmer "Don't Look Back: An Interview with Marina de Van," The French Review, 83:5, April 2010, pp. 96–103
• Tim Palmer, "Under Your Skin: Marina de Van and the Contemporary French Cinema du Corps,"Studies in French Cinema, 6:3, Fall 2006, pp. 171–181