Nancy de Méritens

After graduating Marketing studies in Montpellier in 1985, Nancy de Meritens opted for a more artistic professional life. With a passion for the audiovisual domain she explored for more than three years the language potential within the monthly movies magazine Starfix team, and deepened her knowledge of image and words limits. Then, professional opportunities pushed her to favor reading to writing for a while. In charge of acquisitions for audiovisual fiction programs for Fil à Film group, then Telimage in Switzerland and finally TF1 Video, she devoured hundreds of scripts, which initiated her to the screenplay technique. In 1991 she produced two short films, Noir Dessin and La Loi d'Octave, which aired on Canal + and got Procirep awards. Then she co-wrote and produced documentary films The Eagles' Castle, Time of Mary, Healing the Earth (Guérir la Terre) , Where Saints Pass, all of which were often aired on French an foreign TV channels. She also worked as a script doctor on French feature films in France (Les Aiguilles Rouges, Menteuse). A mother of three children, she naturally became especially interested in family programs. She initiated the writing of children fiction series Sunflower Hill and Kinyama. Her last project as a writer and producer is also a family movie Hollylou.