Herve Cohen, filmmaker/videographer
BIO
Hervé Cohen is an award winning documentary filmmaker and videographer. His work has taken him to various parts of the world from the Casamance in Senegal where he filmed the initiation ceremony of the young Diolas ("Sikambano, the sons of the Sacred Woods") to the countryside of Sichuan, China, to follow the work of three traveling projectionists ("Electric Shadows").
His films have been aired on television networks around the world and featured at various prestigious festivals. Hervé Cohen just recently co-directed with filmmaker wife Guetty Felin “Closer to the Dream” on the Obama movement through inspirational stories of ordinary individuals across America.
He is currently developing his upcoming project "Life Underground" (tentative title) a feature-length impressionist documentary film about the connected lives of subway riders in various parts of the world, for which he was recently awarded a writer’s grant from “La Société des Auteurs” (Writer’s Guild) in France.
His films have been aired on television networks around the world and featured at various prestigious festivals. Hervé Cohen just recently co-directed with filmmaker wife Guetty Felin “Closer to the Dream” on the Obama movement through inspirational stories of ordinary individuals across America.
He is currently developing his upcoming project "Life Underground" (tentative title) a feature-length impressionist documentary film about the connected lives of subway riders in various parts of the world, for which he was recently awarded a writer’s grant from “La Société des Auteurs” (Writer’s Guild) in France.