After studying film at the Belgian Film School IAD, Amélie worked as a casting director and assistant director with the French director Jacques Doillon. In 2011 she directed and self-produced her first feature, Headfirst, which screened in Cannes’ ACID section and won the main award in New York First Time Festival. There, she met Martin Scorsese, who was the executive producer of her second feature, The Elephant & The Butterfly (2017) which premiered at Tribeca and won the Grand Prize at Heartland International Film Festival. Amélie co-directed Dreaming Walls with Maya Duverdier and is currently working on a new fiction feature, to be produced by Les films du Fleuve.
After a bachelor in arts in France, Maya Duverdier obtained her Master's degree in cinema at the Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne with her documentary Jeanne Sans Arc (2014). Next to her work as a director and writer for Cinema and Documentary, she’s also active within various positions of film, television and advertising production. Dreaming Walls is Maya’s first feature documentary, which she co-directed with Amélie van Elmbt.