ABOUT

‘‘Creating with empathy, filming what we carry.”

JULIE SANCHEZ WAWRYZNIAK

Julie Sánchez Wawrzyniak is a French-Spanish filmmaker and photographer based between France and the Middle East. A former lawyer who studied for seven years and passed the Paris Bar, she brings to film the rigor, precision, and close listening that law demands. She is now completing a degree in psychology, with a focus on clinical and emergency care: a thread that runs through her work as both subject and method.

She transitioned into filmmaking in 2022 and works across documentary, fiction, and interactive media, telling intimate stories at the meeting point of cinema, mental health, and human connection.

Her work turns to psychological wellbeing, gender-based violence, migration, and the lives of those the world tends to overlook: told through intimate documentary or tightly built psychological thrillers, always close to the people and communities at their heart.

Her films have travelled from France Télévisions and the Cannes Short Film Corner to festivals across Europe, the Arab world, and South Asia. She won the Canal+ Best Screenplay Award for Like a Matchstick, shot in Cairo, and the Best Scene Award at the Nikon Film Festival 2024, presented by Quentin Dupieux among more than 2,800 entries. She is currently developing her debut fiction feature, set between Cairo and Abu Dhabi, alongside the interactive documentary PANDORA, selected for CPH:LAB 2025–2026.

She works in French, English, and Spanish, often within Arabic-speaking crews and communities, with longtime collaborators in Beirut and Amman.

Full filmography available on request.

COLLABORATION FOR SOCIAL IMPACT
FILMS FOR CHANGE, TOGETHER

OMAR GABRIEL
Artist · Photographer · Filmmaker · Lebanon

Together, we collaborate on films for NGOs and social work, bringing two cinematic sensibilities to causes that matter.

Omar Gabriel is a Lebanese artist, photographer, and filmmaker whose work explores intimacy, identity, and the complexities of human relationships. Through a raw and poetic visual language, he focuses on Arab narratives and marginalized communities, telling stories of love, resistance, vulnerability, and freedom from societal expectations.

In 2023, he received the Cinema Coup de Cœur Award from the Boghossian Foundation, along with the Lolly Award and the Audience Award at Xposed Film Festival. His photography and films have been exhibited and screened internationally, at institutions and festivals including the Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), Berlinale-affiliated programs, Casa Árabe (Madrid), Bienal'23 Fotografia do Porto, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Montreal Lebanese Film Festival, and Everybody's Perfect (Geneva). His work has travelled across Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Lisbon, Beirut, Barcelona, Geneva, New York, California, and Ivory Coast