I turned to documentary filmmaking after an academic journey shaped by the intersection of philosophy, social sciences, and fieldwork abroad. In Cameroon and later Senegal, I focused on the job insecurity lurking beneath the veneer of development aid. To grasp these issues, I immersed myself in the daily lives of project leaders in both urban and rural areas of these countries. Following a PhD in political science and a two-year teaching and research fellowship at Sciences Po Bordeaux, I shifted my focus to documentary creation. Drawn to the medium’s unique ability to engage with reality, I helped organize film-discussion events and co-founded the Passagers du réel, festival in Bordeaux. Within this vibrant community, I sought a cinematic voice capable of expressing my experience of the world and my visual sensibility. This period of exploration paved the way for my debut film, Les choses d’une vie. Exercices d’archéologie (2023), produced by Novanima. Today, I work at the intersection of research and documentary filmmaking. I collaborate with research teams to produce films linked to their work, handling everything from the fieldwork required for production to the actual directing and editing. These scientific collaborations led me to create S’accrocher (2025), a film developed for and with the action-research project “Understanding mechanisms of precarity, access to rights, and local social action in the Couserans-Pyrénées inter-municipal area” (part of the POPSU Territoires program). Un autre jour en France [en quatre saisons] – created in collaboration with Christophe Leroy as part of the research project “Communication and the Construction of Public Opinion Regarding Unaccompanied Migrant Youth” (2022–26) – is a film that functions as a collaborative research tool, offering unaccompanied foreign minors a space to express themselves regarding their migration experiences in France. The film serves as a site for methodological experimentation, enabling new voices and narratives to emerge. Another aspect of my work involves sharing the richness of my craft by leading film-writing workshops for researchers and sociology students alike, empowering them to independently create their own films.