Herve Cohen

Herve Cohen Biography

Hervé Cohen is an award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer and has traveled the world to capture compelling stories for international productions: from the Amazon, filming a musical poetic piece about environment, to the countryside of China, following the work of three traveling projectionists; via Senegal capturing the initiation ceremony of a young Diola; the entire United States, filming a family road movie during the Democratic Primaries; Italy and Portugal for a series of portraits of Europeans, and of course Paris (where he is originally from) filming a personal story about the exile of the Algerian Jews.

He has also shot 2 feature narratives, in San Francisco and in Haiti.

Hervé is currently producing and shooting "Life Underground", an interactive documentary about metro riders in the subways of the world and their intimate stories and thoughts.

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