Delphine Maury

After a law degree, a year at the school of medicine, a master’s degree in ethnology  on my family, then a post-graduate diploma in publishing, I chose to live among books. Having worked as a publishing assistant for technical and encyclopedic publishers, I became an editor at Bayard’s J’aime lire magazine, where I helped write novels, developed cultural news columns and designed Bonnemine games. I helped create the magazine D Lire for 9-13 year-olds. I went on to journalism school, the CFPJ, then left journalism.
In 2005, after training at the CEEA, I branched out into the audiovisual sector and became a writer-director for animated series (“Ariol”, “Maya l’abeille”, “Angélo la débrouille”). In the meantime, I wrote “Les Grandes grandes vacances” (a soap opera about childhood during the war for France 3) without feeling like a scriptwriter (and with the help of other real scriptwriters).
In 2012, I created the production company Tant Mieux Prod to bring to the screen a collection of short films animating Prévert’s poems: “En sortant de l’école”. Every year since then, Tant Mieux Prod has produced thirteen film-poems dedicated to Desnos, Apollinaire, Éluard, Roy, Tardieu and Verlaine. Next year, the theme will be Andrée Chedid. Tant Mieux has expanded to include other projects, all of which focus on our part in childhood: “Mr. Carton”, “Tobie Lolness”, “Vango”, “L’Ours et l’Ermite”… For five years, I was in charge of the French writing residency at Meknès with writers for animation projects from the North and South.

L’Ours et l’Ermite

Annual Selection 2020

Early spring in the forest. When the Bear wakes up from his hibernation and wants to join his adoptive mother the Fox, she makes it clear that he must learn to fend for himself, like a BEAR. But that’s the specialty of the Hermit, a mysterious little man who has been living in the heart of the forest for a long time! The unlikely meeting between this happy Bear, overexcited at the idea of learning, and the highly knowledgeable Hermit with frail nerves, will give rise to the most beautiful lessons in self-reliance… for two. The forest animals don’t take kindly to this situation. A bear and a hermit together is not natural! The closer they get, the more desperate the Fox is to make her child understand that he’s made the wrong choice… The seasons pass. Between the clumsy bear and the hermit with a wonderful secret, a question of love and friendship develops. The strong desire to learn to live alone shows us just how much we want in fact to live together.