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Charlotte Michel is a director of photography and camerawoman.

She graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière (specializing in VFX), and after a semester of exchange at the Escuela International de Cinema y Televisión de Cuba, Charlotte has been working since 2010. She divides her time between fiction, documentary and live music.

She was the D.o.P of Sans déconner, feature movie directed by Alexandre Mosisescot. She has also filmed a number of short movies, including Mila Caos by Simon(e) Paetau, selected for the Quinzaine des cinéastes and the Rotterdam festival; Va dans les bois by Lucie Prost and Trois grains de gros sel by Ingrid Chikhaoui, shown the same year at the Clermont Ferrand festival and broadcast by France TV; La Beauté du Geste by Cyril Carbonne, selected for Palm Spring and Chéries-Chéris; Zanatany by Hachimiya Ahamada at Rotterdam, Leeds, Montreal and RTBF; Botox Fiction by Yoann Kimfoko at the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival and Screamfest in Los Angeles; Tan Lontan by Guillaume Noura at Rencontres Photographiques d'Arles and soon on France TV.

She was also first assistant camera on eight feature films, including 3 by Jean-Christophe Meurisse (Apnée, Les Pistolets en plastique and Oranges sanguines) and Bertrand Bonello's Coma.

She has contributed (alone or as part of a team) to documentaries for television (Arte, Canal+ doc, France TV Slash, RMC Stories, France 3 région). She was D.o.P on commercials for Armani Beauty, Sarenza and Camaïeu.

She has filmed on 4 continents and in 3 languages (Cuba, Germany, India, Morocco, Algeria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Spain, Reunion Island, Qatar, Madagascar, Central African Republic). She works in both digital and film (sometimes even in the tropics).

She occasionally teaches at the Cinéfabrique, the BTS audiovisuel in Boulogne, the ENS Louis Lumière and the EICTV in Cuba.

Charlotte is a member of the Femmes à la caméra collective, the Union des Chefs Opérateurs, the Maison du Film and the Commission supérieure technique. She was CNC commissioner for CVS (animation and special effects) from 2020 to 2022.

+33 (0)6 58 92 45 71 / charlotte.s.michel@gmail.com /