1942

Véronique Lagoarde-Ségot started out as a chief editor alongside William Karel, Patrick Jeudy and Jean-Christophe Rosé. She has to her credit some sixty documentaries, including "Five Broken Cameras", which has won numerous awards (Sundance, IDFA, Cinéma du réel, Emmy Award, etc.) and was nominated for the Oscar for best documentary film in 2013. She continued her career as an international editor working with Egyptian, Iranian, Romanian, Moroccan and Turkish directors. She then collaborated on the direction of Marc Dugain's film "La Malédiction d'Edgar", before launching her own films in 2014, with the documentary "Shoah, les oubliés de l'histoire", which won a Tzimmie Award in Toronto. She tutors international filmmakers at Greenhouse and Doc.Incubator. In 2022, she wrote and directed with Agat Films (David Coujard), a 6-part series "1942".

Marc Ball is a documentary filmmaker. His films aim to describe the world around us from the perspective of the people. He has notably directed for Arte, Tunisie, les voix de la révolution, a film on transitional justice in post-revolutionary Tunisia; Police illégitime violence for France 3 and Public Sénat, on the issue of police violence in working-class neighbourhoods in France, and the 3x52' series Décolonisations, for Arte, with Karim Miské, a fresco on the resistance to European colonial imperialism in Africa and Asia. He has just directed the 6x52' series 1942, for Arte, with Véronique Lagoarde-Ségot, which tells the story of this pivotal year through the accounts of those who lived through it around the world.