Amandine Gay

Director
Writer
Actress

A STORY OF ONES OWN Five adoptees from Brazil, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Australia and South Korea share their common experiences of being separated from their birth families and communities and raised abroad. Based on experiences not dissimilar to her own, Amandine Gay (director of Speak Up/Ouvrir La Voix) draws an intimate and political portrait of transnational adoption.

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(2025) Director, producer, author, Amandine GAY is focused on reclaiming the narrative, both for herself and the communities she belongs to. Following Speak Up - her first self-produced and self-distributed film which gives voice to 24 Black francophone women - released in French, Belgian and Swiss theaters in 2017 and in Canada in 2018; she releases a second feature length documentary, A Story of One's Own. This archival film on transnational and transracial adoption from the perspective of 5 adult adoptees is released in French theaters in June 2021 and at the Cinémathèque québécoise in August 2022. In 2021, she publishes her first book, A Chocolate Doll, an autobiographical essay on adoption with editions La Découverte (France) and Remue-Ménage (Quebec). In 2025, Ballroom, her first docuseries (co-written and directed by Amandine) is broadcasted on France Télévisions' plaftorm; while her second autobiographical essay - about white supremacy -, Vivre, libre, is published by editions La Découverte (France). You can follow her in French and in English on social media: @orpheonegra