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Hervé Cohen
Place of birth
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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Credits
2 titles
Hervé Cohen is an award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer and has traveled the world to capture compelling stories for international productions: from the Amazon, filming a musical poetic piece about environment, to the countryside of China, following the work of three traveling projectionists; (Electric Shadows) via Senegal capturing the initiation ceremony of a young Diola (Sikambano, The Sons of The Sacred Woods); the entire United States, filming a family road movie during the Democratic Primaries (Closer To The Dream); Italy and Portugal for a series of portraits of Europeans, and of course Paris (where he is originally from) filming a personal story about the exile of the Algerian …
Known for
7.5A magical fable weaves together the lives of three different people in Haiti five years after a devastating earthquake.
Haiti My Love
2016
Winter 2008: An unrelenting roar has been mounting for several months in America, resonating all the way to Paris, where African-American expatriate filmmaker, Guetty Felin has been living a self-imposed exile for the last 20 years. Unable to resist the seething political atmosphere back home, she embarks French husband, Hervé Cohen (co-director) and their two sons 15 year-old Yeelen and Joakim 11, on a journey to bear witness to the historical grassroots movement that is uniting Americans across party and racial lines.
Closer to the Dream
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Behind the camera
7.5A magical fable weaves together the lives of three different people in Haiti five years after a devastating earthquake.
Haiti My Love
2016
Winter 2008: An unrelenting roar has been mounting for several months in America, resonating all the way to Paris, where African-American expatriate filmmaker, Guetty Felin has been living a self-imposed exile for the last 20 years. Unable to resist the seething political atmosphere back home, she embarks French husband, Hervé Cohen (co-director) and their two sons 15 year-old Yeelen and Joakim 11, on a journey to bear witness to the historical grassroots movement that is uniting Americans across party and racial lines.
Closer to the Dream
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