Teddy Lussi-Modeste

{{Short description|French Romani film director, screenwriter and literature teacher}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1978|3|25}}{{Cite web |date=1 October 2017 |title=Teddy-Lussi-Modeste attendu mardi à l’Autre cité |url=https://www.estrepublicain.fr/edition-de-verdun/2017/10/01/un-realisateur-attendu-mardi-a-l-autre-cite |website=L'Est Républicain |language=fr |access-date=12 February 2024 |archive-date=12 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240212223225/https://www.estrepublicain.fr/edition-de-verdun/2017/10/01/un-realisateur-attendu-mardi-a-l-autre-cite |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Teddy Lussi-Modeste |url=https://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=411211.html |access-date=12 February 2024 |website=AlloCiné |language=fr |archive-date=16 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240216154617/https://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=411211.html |url-status=live }}

| birth_place = Grenoble, France

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| alma_mater = La Fémis

| occupation = {{hlist|Director|screenwriter|teacher}}

| yearsactive = 2004–present

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Teddy Lussi-Modeste (born 25 March 1978) is a French Romani{{Cite web |language=fr |first=Jean |last=Serroy |title=Teddy Lussi-Modeste : "Le succès se paie toujours au prix fort…" |url=http://www.ledauphine.com/isere-sud/2017/08/27/le-succes-se-paie-toujours-au-prix-fort-phix |website=Le Dauphiné libéré |date=27 August 2017 |access-date=18 February 2024 |archive-date=3 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003025845/http://www.ledauphine.com/isere-sud/2017/08/27/le-succes-se-paie-toujours-au-prix-fort-phix |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=10 February 2016 |title=Gypsy, Roma, Traveller Strand at Borderlines Film Festival 2016 |url=https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/features/gypsy-roma-traveller-strand-borderlines-film-festival-2016 |website=Travellers Times |access-date=18 February 2024 |archive-date=18 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240218193601/https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/features/gypsy-roma-traveller-strand-borderlines-film-festival-2016 |url-status=live }} film director, screenwriter and literature teacher.{{Cite web |title=Teddy Lussi-Modeste |url=https://en.unifrance.org/directories/person/330366/teddy-lussi-modeste |access-date=12 February 2024 |website=Unifrance |archive-date=12 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240212223226/https://en.unifrance.org/directories/person/330366/teddy-lussi-modeste |url-status=live }} He wrote and directed the films Jimmy Rivière (2011), The Price of Success (2017), and The Good Teacher (2024).

Early life

Lussi-Modeste grew up in La Tronche, Grenoble, in a Sinti, Manush Romani community in France.{{Cite web |title=Teddy Lussi-Modeste |url=https://www.romarchive.eu/en/collection/p/teddy-lussi-modeste/ |access-date=18 February 2024 |website=Roman Archive |archive-date=30 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530143640/https://www.romarchive.eu/en/collection/p/teddy-lussi-modeste/ |url-status=live }}

Career

Lussi-Modeste studied cinema at the film school La Fémis in Paris.{{Cite web |date=5 August 2009 |title=Cinéma: Teddy Lussi-Modeste, un "voyageur" dans la République |trans-title=Cinema: Teddy Lussi-Modeste, a “traveler” in the Republic |url=https://www.rtl.be/art/info/magazine/culture/cinema-teddy-lussi-modeste-un-voyageur-dans-la-republique-122156.aspx |website=RTL Belgium |language=fr |access-date=16 February 2024 |archive-date=16 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240216145206/https://www.rtl.be/art/info/magazine/culture/cinema-teddy-lussi-modeste-un-voyageur-dans-la-republique-122156.aspx |url-status=live }} He later became a literature teacher in high schools and colleges, before devoting himself entirely to cinema in the late 2000s.

Lussi-Modeste started his career as a film director in 2004 with the short film Kissing Tigers. In 2011, he released his feature directorial debut, the drama Jimmy Rivière.{{Cite web |title=Teddy Lussi-Modeste |url=https://cineuropa.org/en/filmography/194757/ |access-date=12 February 2024 |website=Cineuropa |archive-date=12 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240212223225/https://cineuropa.org/en/filmography/194757/ |url-status=live }} He later wrote and directed the drama films The Price of Success (2017), and The Good Teacher (2024). Lussi-Modeste also co-wrote the screenplay of Rebecca Zlotowski's 2019 comedy drama film An Easy Girl, and Maïwenn's 2023 historical drama film Jeanne du Barry.

In the 2020s, Lussi-Modeste kept working as a French teacher at a school in Aubervilliers in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, the northeastern suburbs of Paris.{{Cite magazine |date=20 May 2022 |title=L'après-"Titane" de Kazak Productions |url=https://www.lefilmfrancais.com/document/cannes2022/quotidien/media/mag/LFF03/mobile/index.html#p=14 |url-status=live |magazine=Le Film Français |page=14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511002915/https://www.lefilmfrancais.com/document/cannes2022/quotidien/media/mag/LFF03/mobile/index.html#p=15 |archive-date=11 May 2023}}

Filmography

= As director =

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! Year

! Title

! Notes

! scope="col" class="unsortable"| {{Abbr|Ref(s)|Reference(s)}}

2004

! scope="row" |Kissing Tigers

| Short film

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2005

! scope="row" | {{lang|fr|Courts mais GAY: Tome 10}}

| Short film, segment {{lang|fr|Embrasser les tigres}}

2007

! scope="row" | {{lang|fr|Dans l'oeil}}

| Short film

2009

! scope="row" | I'm Coming

| Short film

2011

! scope="row" | Jimmy Rivière

| rowspan=3|Also screenwriter

2017

! scope="row" |The Price of Success

| {{Cite web |last=Lemercier |first=Fabien |title=Teddy Lussi-Modeste • Director |url=https://cineuropa.org/en/interview/334207/ |date=7 September 2017 |website=Cineuropa |access-date=12 February 2024 |archive-date=12 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240212223226/https://cineuropa.org/en/interview/334207/ |url-status=live }}

2024

! scope="row" |The Good Teacher

| {{Cite web |last=Keslassy |first=Elsa |date=9 May 2023 |title=Indie Sales Boards Teddy Lussi-Modeste's 'The Good Teacher,' Co-Written by Audrey Diwan, Starring François Civil (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2023/film/global/indie-sales-teddy-lussi-modestes-the-good-teacher-audrey-diwan-francois-civil-1235607553/ |website=Variety |access-date=12 February 2024 |archive-date=18 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240218185013/https://variety.com/2023/film/global/indie-sales-teddy-lussi-modestes-the-good-teacher-audrey-diwan-francois-civil-1235607553/ |url-status=live }}

= As screenwriter =

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! Year

! Title

! Notes

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2004

! scope="row" |Pilou

| Short film; directed by Claudine Natkin

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2019

! scope="row" |An Easy Girl

| Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski

2023

! scope="row" |Jeanne du Barry

| Directed by Maïwenn

=As actor=

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! Year

! Title

! Role

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2023

! scope="row" | Jeanne du Barry

| Doctor La Martinière

| Directed by Maïwenn

Awards and nominations

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Year ! Award / Festival ! Category ! Work ! Result ! scope="col" class="unsortable"\| {{Abbr\|Ref(s)\|Reference(s)}}
rowspan=2\|2011 \| Angers Premiers Plans Film Festival \| Audience Award - Best French Feature Film \| rowspan=2\|Jimmy Rivière \| {{won}} \| {{Cite web \|title=European First Film Festival Premiers Plans / Festival d'Angers {{!}} Palmarès 2011 \|url=https://www.premiersplans.org/actualites/documents/2011-palmares-fr.pdf \|access-date=18 February 2024 \|website=Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers \|language=fr \|archive-date=26 June 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626202451/http://www.premiersplans.org/actualites/documents/2011-palmares-fr.pdf \|url-status=live }}
Louis Delluc Prize \| Best Debut Film \| {{nom}} \| {{Cite web \|last=Lemercier \|first=Fabien \|date=22 November 2011 \|title=Nine contenders for the Delluc \|url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/211884/ \|website=Cineuropa \|access-date=21 February 2024 \|archive-date=26 September 2021 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926060533/https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/211884/ \|url-status=live }}
2017 \| San Sebastián International Film Festival \| New Directors Award \| The Price of Success \| {{nom}} \|{{Cite web \|last=Rivera \|first=Alfonso \|date=19 July 2017 \|title=The first films in competition in the New Directors section of San Sebastián \|url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/331667/ \|website=Cineuropa \|access-date=16 February 2024 \|archive-date=16 February 2024 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240216151810/https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/331667/ \|url-status=live }}

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Year

! Award / Festival

! Category

! Work

! Result

! scope="col" class="unsortable"| {{Abbr|Ref(s)|Reference(s)}}

rowspan=2|2011

| Angers Premiers Plans Film Festival

| Audience Award - Best French Feature Film

| rowspan=2|Jimmy Rivière

| {{won}}

| {{Cite web |title=European First Film Festival Premiers Plans / Festival d'Angers {{!}} Palmarès 2011 |url=https://www.premiersplans.org/actualites/documents/2011-palmares-fr.pdf |access-date=18 February 2024 |website=Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers |language=fr |archive-date=26 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626202451/http://www.premiersplans.org/actualites/documents/2011-palmares-fr.pdf |url-status=live }}

Louis Delluc Prize

| Best Debut Film

| {{nom}}

| {{Cite web |last=Lemercier |first=Fabien |date=22 November 2011 |title=Nine contenders for the Delluc |url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/211884/ |website=Cineuropa |access-date=21 February 2024 |archive-date=26 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926060533/https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/211884/ |url-status=live }}

2017

| San Sebastián International Film Festival

| New Directors Award

| The Price of Success

| {{nom}}

|{{Cite web |last=Rivera |first=Alfonso |date=19 July 2017 |title=The first films in competition in the New Directors section of San Sebastián |url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/331667/ |website=Cineuropa |access-date=16 February 2024 |archive-date=16 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240216151810/https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/331667/ |url-status=live }}

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Category:1978 births

Category:Living people

Category:French Romani people

Category:People from Grenoble

Category:French film directors

Category:Romani film directors

Category:Romani male actors

Category:French male screenwriters

Category:French schoolteachers

Category:21st-century Romanian educators

Category:21st-century Romanian writers

Category:21st-century Romanian actors

Category:21st-century French screenwriters

Category:La Fémis alumni