Simone Bitton

Simone Bitton (born 1955) is a French-Morrocan documentary filmmaker. Her films have been nominated for or won the César Award, the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film Award, and the Sundance Film Festival, Special Jury Prize (for Mur).

Simone Bitton
Born1955 (age 64–65)
Morocco
OccupationDirector, Producer, Writer

Personal life

Bitton was born the daughter of a Jewish jeweller in Morocco. She describes herself as a Mizrahi Jew.[1] After settling in France, where she now mainly lives she graduated from the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in 1981.[2][3]

Filmography
  • 1981 : Solange Giraud, née Tache
  • 1997 : Palestine/israel, histoire d’une terre
  • 1998 : Ben Barka, l’équation marocaine
  • 1998 : Mahmoud Darwich
  • 2000 : L'Attentat
  • 2001 : Citizen Bishara
  • 2004 : Mur
  • 2009 : Rachel
gollark: Why would I *buy* goods and services from *Andrew*?
gollark: And writing "Secret LyricTech™ operation" isn't antiinformation technology.
gollark: Of course not.
gollark: And a surprising quantity of your decoys turned out to just be cardboard boxes with "LYRICTECH SPACESHIP" written on them.
gollark: You don't have actual antiinformational technology either.

References
  1. Director's bio Archived 2012-03-08 at the Wayback Machine Wall the movie. Retrieved on 2 July 2010
  2. French Protest of Israeli Raid Reaches Wide Audience New York Times. 12 June 2010
  3. WALL The Middle East Magazine. November 2004


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