Marc Picavez

Born in 1981, Marc Picavez wrote his first screenplay in high school and won the Scénario sur la drogue competition with the short film “C’est presque terrible”, directed by Lionel Mougin and produced by Téléma.
Parallel to his studies in sociology, in 2005 he directed his first film, “Bul déconné! This film, which won awards in Dakar, Montreal, Ouidah and San Francisco, was the result of a collaboration with Massaër Dieng.
Marc went on to develop solo projects such as “France-Brésil et autres histoires…” (2007), which won awards at several festivals, and “Agosto”, which won the CNC Quality Prize in 2010.
His “Championzé” project, for which he was supported by Groupe Ouest, won first prize in the France Télévisions call for diversity projects.

Championzé

Annual Selection 2013

On December 16, 1925, in the Hell’s Kitchen district of New York, Battling Siki was shot dead in the back. Three years earlier, he had become the first black African world boxing champion after a historic fight against the French idol, Georges Carpentier. Starting with his last night in New York, his last fight, the film retraces the rebellious itinerary of a young boy from Saint-Louis in Senegal who, throughout his whole life, had fought against the discrimination to which he was constantly exposed.