Marjolaine Grappe

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Documentary Filmmaker

Miami, Florida US

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Documentary Filmmaker & MIT Open Documentary Lab Fellow

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Marjolaine Grappe is an independent documentary filmmaker and a current MIT Open Documentary Lab Fellow. Her work on the financing of North Korea's nuclear weapons ALL THE DICTATOR’S MEN (2018) was awarded the Albert Londres Prize, the highest French journalistic distinction. Her feature documentary debut THE COLOR OF JUSTICE (2018), about justice in the death of New Yorker Eric Garner, premiered at CPH:DOX in 2019. She started her career in Washington DC as a producer covering the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, and went on to work in Asia as a foreign correspondent reporting from India (2009-2012) and China (2012-2016). She has directed several award-winning investigative documentaries including GUANTANAMO LIMBO (2015) and a documentary trilogy about China's One-Child Policy. Her work has been supported by the Catapult Film Fund, WIF/Sundance, SFFILM, SFFILM Invest, Field of Vision, the Miller/Packan Documentary Fund, the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, the CNC (Centre National du Cinéma), the PROCIREP, the SCAM Brouillon d’un Rêve Grant, and the Lagardère Foundation.

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