Coralie de Winne
Coralie de Winne (born 30th July 1998) is a French filmmaker, who currently lives in London (UK). Before living in England, Coralie used to live on a catamaran boat for two years in the south of France where she'd go sailing with her family. A few years later in 2005 her parents decided to uproot her life to England in 2005, from there she went to Catholic schools for both primary and secondary, but it wasn't until she went to college to do a Level 3 BTEC in creative media that she realised that she wanted to pursue a career in filmmaking. She furthered her education by getting a bachelors degree with honours in filmmaking at Kingston University in London.
Coralie attended three years at Kingston University with a year abroad to partner university, Grand Valley State in west Michigan. She acquired various skills whilst abroad including the use of a darkroom where she hand processes her own black and white 35mm films, she also found a passion for script writing and over the year of studying in America she wrote two feature scripts.
Over the years, Coralie has had different kinds of work experience in the film industry. She worked at Suite TV in London, a post production house, where during the morning she would act as a runner assisting the employees and clients by bringing them tea and coffee, whilst in the afternoon she would sit on different edits each day experiencing a different part of post production. Whilst on study abroad at Grand Valley State, Coralie worked as a cinematographer through the Student Life Office on campus who work to produce videos for various clients. However, her most valued experience happened over the summer of 2019 where she worked on a feature film Driftless as a camera operator, as this was her first experience on a professional feature film.
She has worked on many different projects, mainly as a director of photography, editor and at times director. Coralie has worked with different mediums over the years including; digital cameras, DSLR's and high speed cameras such as the Phantom Gold, as well as shooting a short experimental film on 16mm film using a Bolex camera. She is able to edit on a variety of softwares including; Final Cut Pro, Premier Pro and AVID.