Marie-Clémence Paes

Marie-Clémence Andriamonta Paes (born 1959), is a Malagasy French filmmaker. She has produced several critically acclaimed feature documentaries including: Angano... Angano..., Mahaleo and L'opéra du bout du monde. Apart from direction, she is also a producer and writer.

Personal life She was born in 1959 to a French father and Malagasy mother. She completed a master's degree in sociology and a Marketing CELSA-Sorbonne Diploma.

She is married to César Paes, who is also a Franco-Brazilian director. The production company is committed in distribution and publishing. With her husband César Paes, she wrote and produced documentaries such as Angano...Angano... Tales from Madagascar, Songs and Tears of Nature, and Awara Soup. Awara Soup won several top awards at Cinéma du Réel, Festival dei Popoli and Dok Leipzig. Her films such as Saudade do Futuro, Mahaleo, An Opera from the Indian Ocean and Songs for Madagascar were theatrically released in France and in the US as well. In her documentaries, music is an important aspect and music is often used as a narrative element. Many of the films directed by Clémence won several prizes at the Cinéma du Réel festival. In 2019, she directed a feature film, Fahavalo, centers on the remaining memory of the Madagascan insurrection of 1947.

Filmography Year Film Role Genre Ref. 1989 Angano... Angano... nouvelles de Madagascar director, producer, writer Documentary 1992 To the warriors of silence producer Documentary 1992 Songs and Tears of Nature producer, writer Documentary 2000 Saudade Do Futuro producer, writer Documentary 2005 Mahaleo producer Documentary 2005 Le sifflet producer Short film 2006 Batuque, l'âme d'un peuple director, producer, production manager Documentary 2012 L'opéra du bout du monde director, executive producer, writer Documentary 2014 The Malagasy Way co-producer Documentary 2016 Songs for Madagascar producer Documentary 2016 De la Sakay à la Carapa producer Documentary 2018 Fahavalo, Madagascar 1947 director, producer, writer Documentary