Marjolaine Grappe is an independent documentary filmmaker, investigative journalist and a 2020 & 2021 SFFILM FilmHouse resident. Her work on the financing of North Korea’s nuclear weapons All The Dictator’s Men (which had 28 million online viewers) was awarded the 2018 Albert Londres Prize, the highest French journalistic distinction. Her feature documentary debut The Color of Justice, 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 feature-length journalism investigations including Guantanamo Limbo and a series of investigative reports about China’s One-Child Policy.
Her work has been supported by the Catapult Film Fund, WIF/Sundance, SFFILM, 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.
While at OpenDocLab, she’ll be working on a new project exploring the intersection of documentary films and games.