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Meet Flore Vasseur, Film Director, Bigger Than Us - Commons
Flore Vasseur
Film Director , Bigger Than Us - Commons
Flore Vasseur is a writer, film director and a journalist.
She questions the grip of finance, technology and our relationship to power. Her film, “Meeting Snowden” and her book “What remains of our dreams” on internet entrepreneur, activist and open knowledge pioneer Aaron Swartz are the result of a long-term work on the trail of human rights defenders and whistleblowers. Her last movie, “Bigger than Us”, explores what drives young and aligned change makers throughout the world.
Key Dates
11 SEPTEMBER 2001
After witnessing the New York attack, purpose became her main driver.
2011
“Comment j'ai liquidé le siècle” received the Jean Amila-Meckert Award and the Lions National Grand Prize for Literature
2017
Broadcast on Arte of his documentary “Meeting Snowden”
2019
Publication of his novel-investigation "Ce qu’il reste de nos rêves" which retraces the unknown and real story of Aaron Swartz.
2021
Release of her film Bigger Than Us produced with Marion Cotillard and Denis Carot
