Director of
L'AMERTUME DU CHOCOLAT
After studying at the Arts Décoratifs in Paris and in several music schools, Lucile Chaufour took part in the 1990s in the development of the internal television network of the Maison d'Arrêt de la Santé and animated a video workshop in a psychiatric hospital in Paris. She’s played in numerous jazz and rock bands, among them Primitiv Combo, Duck & Cover, Trottel, Sayag Jazz Machine... She funded the record label Makhno Records, which enabled several punk bands forbidden to play in communist Hungary –their home country- to broadcast their music. At the same time, she proposed with the record label Le Cri du Tamarin a compilation of unreleased videos from the French alternative scene of the 1990s. She also works as a screenwriter for Casterman editions.
Selection:
2009 VIOLENT DAYS
2012 EAST PUNK MEMORIES
2014 LEONE, MERE & FILS