Jaoul de Poncheville, Marie

(March 29, 1945, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France - )

   After publishing a first novel (1974 Maman, j'ai peur, Editions Elp), she was successively a writer for a children's magazine (Pomme d'Api, 1975), literary man­ager of Editions Tchou (1978), founder and general manager of Editions 5 Continents (1981), journalist (Cosmo, La Croix, Elle, Femme, Vogue, Figaro Magazine, Globe, 1982), creator of Editions Marie de Poncheville (1984), novelist again (1985 Les Salons de Marie, co-written with Arnaud Marty-Lavauzelle, Editions Car-rère), and finally TV and film documentary director. She co-produced two documentaries, the first for cinema (1986 Le Dieu de la Danse / UK and USA: Lord of the Dance / Destroyer of Illusion, also French adapter, Richard Kohn, France / Switzerland / West Germany) and the second for TV (Loxin, l'Initiation d'un jeune Chamane, documentary, also screenwriter, adapter, Franz-Christoph Giercke). Other books: 1990 Sept Femmes au Tibet sur les Traces d'Alexandra David-Néel (Editions Albin Michel); 1995 Molom, le Chamane et l'Enfant (Editions Jean-Claude Lattès).

 Filmography

        ◘ Lung Ta (Les Cavaliers du Vent) / USA: Lung Ta: The Forgotten Tibet (documentary; co-director with Franz-Christoph Giercke)

        ◘ Voyage du Dalaï-Lama en Russie (documentary)

        ◘ Les Trésors de l'Art Bouddhiste (documentary)

1995 ◘ Molom, Conte de Mongolie (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, co-producer; shot in 1993)

1999 ◘ La Projection (documentary; medium-length; also screenwriter)

2003 ◘ Yônden (docu-fiction)

2007 ◘ Tengri, le Bleu du Ciel (documentary; also screenwriter; France / Germany)

 Television Filmography

1985 ◘ Le Temps retrouvé (documentary)

1988 ◘ La Pilule de longue Vie (documentary)

        ◘ Le Tibétains de l'Exil (documentary)

        ◘ A la recherche de l'Eternité (documentary)

1989 ◘ Un Eté au Tibet (documentary)

        ◘ Sept Femmes au Tibet sur les Traces d'Alexandra David-Néel (documentary)