Biography

(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
- IMDb mini biography by: Amandine Gay