Unifrance Series Express - Alice: Pioneer of Cinema

Screening of the first two episodes (2x45'), followed by a Q&A with actors Oscar Lesage and Thibaut Evrard; and producer Caroline de Jenlis. The true story of the world's first filmmaker. Paris, 1895: Alice Guy, a young secretary, defies her employer Léon Gaumont and makes the first fiction film in history. Within two years she runs his production. From the Belle Époque to the birth of Hollywood, she builds an empire, raises two children and becomes one of the highest-paid women in America, before losing everything to the men she loved and vanishing from the history she created.