Marceline Loridan Ivens

Born in Epinal (Vogesen) in 1928. In 1940, she and her parents, who, as Jews, had already been driven out of Poland, fled into the France. From 1944-45 she was a prisoner at the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the 1960s, she worked as a television journalist; after meeting the politically committed documentary filmmaker, Joris Ivens, she was to become his most important collaborator on his projects. In 1967, she also began working as a producer (Capi-Films) and distributor. She is a co-founder of the Joris Ivens Foundation. —Warsaw Film Festival